Head of Water Assets

What you’ll be responsible for

As Head of Water Assets, you will:

• Demonstrate outstanding technical expertise in Asset Management, crafting effective investment strategies and fostering trust and collaboration with operational and Capital Delivery teams.
• Lead the advancement of Water Asset Management strategies, processes and systems within DCWW, ensuring optimal performance and continuous improvement.
• Engage with key stakeholders to elevate asset performance and management practices, surpassing performance targets and driving excellence throughout the Water business.
• Serve as a principal liaison for Asset Planning and Capital Delivery, overseeing operational risk, and guiding the development of integrated strategic investment plans for the AMP, rooted in Operational Risk.
• Articulate the Water business's capital investment needs, collaborating with Asset Planning to shape future AMP plans and champion performance targets for the Asset team.
• Adopt a strategic approach to asset management challenges, advancing operational efficiencies and reducing Botex costs across the water sector.

Principal Accountabilities

• Lead a dynamic, multifunctional team to deliver the water capital investment portfolio while building trust and strong relationships with operational colleagues.
• Enhance portfolio management to efficiently identify and address risks, ensuring swift resolution of key issues.
• Establish robust asset management processes for thorough investigations and root cause analysis, driving continuous improvement in the Water business.
• Oversee the Pre IDP2 design team, ensuring optimal solutions are developed and costed before transferring to the Capital Delivery Team at IDP2.
• Forge strong partnerships with operational teams, earning their trust and confidence in the water assets team's initiatives.
• Cultivate relationships with Quality and Economic Regulators, reinforcing the credibility of our operational strategies and investment plans.
• Collaborate with Asset Planning to optimise the five-year rolling programme, enhancing system functionality and data accuracy for future AMP initiatives.
• Champion a client-focused approach to investment, guiding the Innovation and Optimisation team to maximise cost and service standards.
• Lead the adoption and governance of minimum viable solutions, ensuring effective and agile decision-making processes.
• Nurture key partnerships with stakeholders, delivering solutions that elevate performance targets and drive cost efficiency in the Water business.
• Embrace best practices and cultivate innovation by identifying opportunities for improvement across the industry.
• Oversee the overall budget and financial management of all programmes within the Water Asset team portfolio.
• Ensure valuable insights through post-project reviews, learning from past capital investments and operational projects to inform future solutions and avoid repeated mistakes.
• Perform any additional duties required to support the evolving needs of the business.
  
  

About you

• Achievement Motivation - The drive and energy to produce excellent results and to continually find ways of improving relationships, outputs and processes.
• Corporate Representation - The enthusiasm and ability to lead by example and to project a positive and professional image of DCWW with all contacts and stakeholders at all times.
• Creativity/innovation – The ability to look at issues from a broad perspective, to come up with imaginative solutions, and to identify innovative alternatives to typical, unusual or difficult situations or problems.
• Developing People – The ability to set clear goals for others; to assign responsibility; to measure performance; and to seek and deliver feedback to achieve quality, timely results and enhanced individual performance.
• Environmental & Organisational Awareness - The awareness of economic, environmental, social and political factors, current and changing, likely to affect the job or the organisation. The ability to assess the impact of these factors on the job or the organisation and to overcome challenges and seize opportunities to optimise effectiveness.
• Influencing Skills - The ability to make a clear, persuasive presentation of ideas or facts, verbally or in writing; to convince others; to gain agreement or acceptance of proposals or views.
• Initiative - The ability to actively influence events rather than passively accept them. The ability to see opportunities and to act on them, to originate action.
• Leadership – The ability to understand the business needs and to translate these into a shared purpose, strategy and objectives and to motivate and inspire others to work towards these. The ability to gain the respect and commitment of others.
• Ownership and reliability – The readiness to take responsibility for projects or issues and to be accountable for their timely delivery and quality. The capacity and motivation to fulfil consistently any undertakings made. The habit of never letting people down, or promising what can't be done.
• Resource / Project Management –The ability to establish appropriate course of action, either for oneself or for others, and to manage all resources (to include people, budgets, contracts, systems and processes) effectively, in order to achieve an objective.
  
  

Benefits

We know that if our employees are happy, our customers are happy. That’s why we offer a great benefits package. As one of the biggest companies in Wales, our reward and benefits package includes:
 
•    Market competitive salary 
•    Annual incentive scheme (bonus) – maximum opportunity 25% of base salary 
•    Employer pension scheme up to 11%
•    Flexible working considered
•    Relocation considered
•    Onsite carpark
•    28 days annual leave plus public holidays 
•    Private healthcare
•    Generous range of employee benefits and discounts
•    And many, many more.

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision.  This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them.  The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. 

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.