We have an exciting opportunity for an Assurance Engineer to join the Water Distribution team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers.
What we do:
Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.
We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity.
New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment, and changing expectations from customers mean that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. Water Distribution is a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.
Role Responsibilities:
* The Assurance Engineer will provide expert retrospective analysis of supply interruption events to fully understand and articulate impact upon customers and compliance on the water network.
* Undertaking engineering and hydraulic analysis of event impacts and a critical analysis of incident response to help build both tactical and process controls to mitigate the risk of future failure.
* The Assurance Engineer will carry out the Annual Performance Reporting process for supply interruptions, and enable the company to maintain a high level of assurance and compliance with the regulator.
* The role will deliver world-class asset and operational excellence across YW assets, in pursuit of health and safety excellence; regulatory compliance; operational efficiency and business plan outperformance.
Where you fit in:
* Take personal responsibility for self and others with respect to health & safety, risk management, and control of work to ensure compliance with YW H&S Policy & Procedures.
* Retrospectively complete detailed network failure reports containing hydraulic and engineering analysis using all the available data and complete detailed hydraulic calculations to understand the property impact and duration of the event.
* Provide critical analysis of events to fully understand failure and identify opportunities for future improvements to incident response.
* Preparing and presenting detailed documents outlining impact of events on the water network, a timeline of interventions and actions taken leading to restoration and hydraulic calculations to accurately report customer minutes lost.
* Ensuring that all documentation produced adheres to approved internal and external assurance framework.
* Liaise with stakeholders within other departments involved in Source to Tap processes to ensure that information across the whole process is considered when completing analysis.
* Contribute to the annual audit submission and assist the Compliance and Assurance team leader where required to deliver a successful APR.
* Demonstrate a continuous improvement commitment by ensuring that tactical intervention actions and identified network asset risk and improvement opportunities are recorded and fed back to the appropriate operational and engineering teams.
What skills & qualifications you will need:
* Fully aware of H&S requirements which relate to the operation of the water network including working on the highway, confined spaces, lone working.
* Full understanding of the regulatory and service targets in relation to Water Networks is essential, as is a dynamic understanding of analysis, performance and risk.
* A knowledge of, and can apply detailed hydraulic calculations and undertake hydraulic modelling to determine the impact of network failure, and proposed mitigation activity.
* Proven track record data analysis and manipulation skills of interpreting / compiling and data analysis is essential.
* Experienced in Yorkshire Water’s corporate systems including: SAP, AI2, Odyssey, SRM, YorBill, ICE, Netbase, Halma, RTNet.
* Excellent report writing and communication skills.
* Be enthusiastic with the ability to demonstrate drive, dedication and ambition to deliver first-class customer service skills.
* Must be meticulous in all aspects of analysis and presentation to ensure the high level of assurance and confidence in our data is maintained.
You will also benefit from having:
* User of Netbase.
* Advanced user of excel.
* Previous experience in a commercially orientated and / or regulated environment.
* Able to understand where your role fits within a Business Plan and develop ways to deliver the outputs required.
* Experience of supporting and embedding change, able to influence and drive the right culture and behaviours.
* A minimum of, or to be working toward an HNC in an engineering or related qualification.
Although we operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it’s important to us that we support flexible working patterns and job share options (when we can), to help you make the best of both your work and home life.
If you’ve got experience in Assurance Engineer and want to help us deliver great service for our customers whilst looking after the environment, then be sure to apply today to find out what a career with Yorkshire Water can offer you.
If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third-Party Company, prior to commencing employment.
We are proud to serve the Yorkshire region and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply.
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