Closing Date 16/12/2024 Job Title: Regional Maintenance Manager Location: Kent - Driving licence is essential due to site visits Contract: Permanent Hours: 37 hours Salary: Competitive pay and benefits including £400 per month car allowance and up to 10% bonus Do you wish to play a vital role in your community, help to safeguard our natural resources for future generations and work in a region that includes more than 800km of pristine coastline? We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Regional Maintenance Manager to oversee the performance of our Kent based Wastewater Asset Maintenance teams, ensuring that assets are available for use as designed within the region. In this Senior Management role, through consistent deployment and rigorous application of the corporate maintenance strategy, you will ensure that the correct planned preventative maintenance schedules are applied to the assets to enable it to be operated to the design capability for a wider delivery of Wastewater Environment, Financial and Customer performance objectives. To achieve this, one of your key strategies will be to build an improvement plan, consisting of planned programmes of work (such as the inlet works and screens) to bring a focus on delivering planned work on time to schedule and the reactive capital maintenance programme, within own control with the ability to evidence spend and benefit. A great opportunity to lead a motivated team, with drive for change, improvement and continuous evaluation of the resource plan. You will be responsible in managing approximately 8 direct and approximately 80 indirect reports and around £2-15m of Opex and Capex budget. Managing asset availability to regional targets within the geographical area is paramount in this highly regulated industry, therefore the delivery of work must comply to LOLER & PUWER within the agreed time, cost and quality. Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) will be a crucial evolving metric which will allow us to gauge how effective we are Your key accountabilities would also include: •Ensuring team are empowered to operate safely, displaying a zero-compromise attitude to the health and wellbeing of staff, ensuring that we send the team home safe and well at the end of the day. •Managing asset availability and MTTR to regional targets within a geographic area •Working with Asset Management to ensure that the right capex and opex asset improvement plans are in place •Driving contractor and service provider performance in the geography •Providing an excellent level of customer service within the geography •Leading and engage a significant workforce within the framework of Southern Water’s values and behaviours •Acting as an ambassador for Southern Water when working with external stakeholders and businesses Waste Water is one of the highlights in media coverage, therefore it is important for you to understand the significance of our compliance to regulatory standards and the impact of failures to our business and reputation. Therefore in some cases, you will be attending challenging meetings with the public responding to operational issues and giving interviews on our behalf in conjunction with our communications team to keep our commitment to our customers. To be successful, you will ideally have strong experience within a Utility, Maintenance or Operations environment. It is highly desirable for you to have a Mechanical or Electrical background. With your strong leadership and people engagement skills, leading a team of direct reports, with excellent financial acumen and understanding of financial management would also be beneficial as the role will require you to manage large budgets for your area. You’ll be a resilient leader, open to positive change with a vision for strategic improvements in ensuring all actions adhere to Southern Waters values of Doing The Right Thing, Succeeding Together, Always Improving and Working with Care