Plant Manager

What you’ll be responsible for

Reporting to the Head of Service, the Plant Manager will manage a Food Anaerobic Digestion Facility to achieve contractual, Health & Safety, financial, customer, performance targets and ensure compliance with all environmental and regulatory requirements for the site.  The Plant Manager will ensure these assets are managed to optimal efficiency and within agreed budgetary targets whilst meeting all customer service and contractual standards set under the contract with Cardiff Council. In addition, the Plant Manager will manage an operational team at the Food Anaerobic Digestion Facility. 
 
Your responsibilities will include:
 

1. Ensuring all site activities are carried out in line with WWOE Health and Safety policies and procedures.
2. Maximising the efficiency and effectiveness of the Food Anaerobic Digestion Facility and deliver the business performance inline or exceeding the business plan.
3. Ensuring compliance with contractual, health and safety, environmental, APHA and WWOE company standards.
4. Ensuring a high standard of internal and external Audit compliance is achieved (9:001, 14:001, and 45:001) as well as ensuring the continual standard of PAS110 and PAS100 is held.
5. Constantly seek innovation to aid efficiency and production of the sites.
6. Leading an operational team. Responsibility for inspiring and motivating and to proactively and effectively manage team performance in accordance with all current WWOE HR policies.
7. Providing expert advice and guidance to the Operational Team and management of emergency incidents or contingency plans.
8. Proactively enabling team training and development to maximise productivity and provide team with expertise and mandatory skills required to achieve high performance. 
9. Managing the performance and behaviours of the team within the guidelines and parameters of the company’s values, policies and procedures.
10. Setting challenging individual and team targets and monitor achievement to target, reporting on performance and variances to senior management and Contractual Stakeholders as required.
11.  Ensure the total cost of service is under control and real efficiencies can be demonstrated and reported in Monthly meetings with both Senior Management and Contractual stakeholders including NRW reporting.
12. Managing the business planning and account for your team to ensure financial efficiency and identify cost reduction opportunities.
13. Managing the business planned and reactive maintenance planning to ensure MEI tasks are completed when required in line with best industry practice and to ensure financial efficiency and identify cost reduction opportunities.
14. Ensuring Statuary maintenance plans are delivered and reviewed.
15. Actively plan and manage the operational capacity of team resource – ensuring available capacity is maximised and fully utilised.
16. Ensuring costs of the site services are accounted for timely and financial procedures and processes are followed and report to Senior Management.
17. Representation with external stakeholders will include active management of Regulatory relationships. 

Who you’ll work with

Internal

• Senior Management Team
• Operations
• H&S
• HR
• Planning
• Finance
• Communications
• Contract Partners – Delivery managers where appropriate
• Wastewater Services management team colleagues

External

• Natural Resources Wales
• Local Authorities
• APHA

About you

Knowledge, Skills & Experience 

• A degree level qualification, or equivalent, in engineering or science    
• Able to demonstrate a commercial approach to cost efficiency and leading large scale change programmes to achieve a high-performance business culture    
• Experience of managing an operational team    
• Experience of working in the Water, Waste or Energy Sectors    
• An ability to think strategically but also able to ensure effective day to day delivery of services    
• The ability to develop positive working relationships and to be seen as a highly credible senior representative of the business is required for this role    
• 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    
• The ability to gather, understand, analyse and interpret information & concepts, verbal or numerical, about people or situations, quickly
• 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. 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    
• The ability to evaluate people and situations and to reach logical, fair decisions with an unbiased, common sense approach    
• 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    
• The readiness to take responsibility for projects or issues and to be accountable for their timely delivery and quality.

Good to know

• The successful candidate will be required to participate in a standby and call out rota. 

For more information on the role please contact Adrian.thomas@dwrcymru.com

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

• Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
• Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
• Free Mortgage Brokering Services 
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
• Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
• Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
• Many more can be found on our website. 

 
Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.
 
 
Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business.

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.