About the role
Are you passionate about compliance and performance? We have an exciting opportunity to join our Wastewater directorate as our Head of Wastewater Compliance and Performance.
This role will set and deliver the strategy for reporting on compliance and performance across the Wastewater directorate. This means you will monitor and report on our environmental permit, business process and statutory legislation compliance to ensure we meet all legal requirements whilst maximise performance opportunity across all Wastewater areas.
You will be an experienced leader, delivering high performing Wastewater Quality and Compliance, and Wastewater Performance teams. This means you will ensure activities align to quality standards and are carried out safely with your business unit.
The successful candidate will develop and own systems and processes across the Wastewater compliance and performance disciplines. As data is a focus of this role you will use intelligent analytics and performance monitoring to provide proactive insight into opportunities to improve Wastewater compliance and performance.
You will maximise the benefits of research opportunities through successful collaboration with our regulator Ofwat, Environment Agency, Water UK, UKWIR, and other external stakeholders. Engaging in the external environment you will identify opportunities and best practice to improve how the business operates. We’re looking for you to influence and work collaboratively with other service departments, promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
As the primary point of contact for Wastewater environmental regulators both locally and nationally you will lead and influence on proposed changes. This includes effectively communicating changes to Wastewater environmental legislation to stakeholders across Northumbrian Water.
You will ensure the balanced scorecard metrics are utilised to improve business performance. It’s important for you to develop strong working relationships with industry peers and internal stakeholders. This will ensure our organisation is at the forefront of innovation and best practice.
About you
If you have proven experience in managing high levels of compliance and driving a performance culture in an asset management discipline, we want to hear from you.
You will have experience of leading a team through change to implement new corporate systems and changing the ways of working to achieve future outcomes. This means you will be innovative in your approach to developing solutions, working collaboratively with your engineering colleagues.
You will have experience developing and delivering strategy, plans, systems, and processes to deliver high quality outcomes. It’s important that you have proven ability managing stakeholders and senior leaders across multi-functional teams through your understanding of asset management, regulation, systems, and processes.
You will have a broad and technical understanding of different systems and operating regimes coupled with a detailed understanding of external factors influencing the industry including political, economic, social, and technological issues.
Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.
Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.
We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.
About us
Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.
We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, and that female candidates are less likely to apply if they don’t have the full range of skills, however if you have some of the skills listed, we 'd encourage you to apply.
NWG at a glance:
Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.
We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.
We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.
Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.
Our benefits
We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues.
Benefits to include, here’s just a few of them:
1. Enhanced maternity pay
2. Enhanced annual leave with additional special leave for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
3. Company pension scheme
4. Digital GP
5. Award winning wellbeing website
6. Employee Assistance Programme
7. Life assurance
8. Qualification loans
9. Professional subscription
10. Buy and sell annual leave
11. Discounts and cashback offers
Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment
This role has also been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test.
Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date.
Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked