Capital Carbon Manager

What you’ll be responsible for

To lead Welsh Water and the Capital Delivery in delivering on its Net Zero commitments. The Carbon Manager will engage widely across Welsh Water, Capital Delivery and Supply Chain to deliver carbon savings through innovation and leading industry best practice. This will involve embedding tools, training, processes and governance around capital investment within Welsh Water.
 

Your Key Responsibilities will include: 
 

1. Continually look inside and outside the water industry to ensure that Welsh Water and Capital Delivery are implementing best practice carbon management
2. Drive the implementation and continual improvement of the Capital Carbon Strategy
3. Work with Welsh Water and Capital Delivery colleagues across the project lifecycle to support the delivery of assets with the lowest whole life cost and carbon
4. Establish processes and procedures to monitor and improve carbon performance
5. Support the ongoing development of the Capital Delivery Sustainability and Options process, as well as working directly with project teams to maximise carbon reduction opportunities
6. Share best practice and key leaning across Capital Delivery in relation to carbon reduction across the entire project lifecycle
7. Network extensively across the infrastructure carbon sector to ensure Welsh Water and Capital Delivery have access to the latest best practice in carbon reduction
8. Support the development of carbon data sets to support effective decision making
9. Support the development and trial of innovative, low carbon approaches
10. Develop a plan to integrate carbon accounting into the chosen Capital Delivery estimating and cost intelligence system
11. Deliver training and awareness sessions across Welsh Water and Capital Delivery
12. Improve the data management of all carbon management activities and supply data to Welsh Water for regulatory reporting processes and ISO14064 compliance
13. Promote a culture of continuous improvement, establish accessible library of best practice and review as on a regular basis.
14. Ensure that we are communicating carbon opportunities and activities to all relevant stakeholders within Capital Delivery
15. Participate in thought leadership opportunities to communicate Capital Delivery direction, successes and challenges, e.g. Water UK papers, DCC internal conference presentations, presentations at water industry conferences etc.

Who you’ll work with

Internal:

• Capital Delivery Teams
• Capital Engineering Design Teams
• Water and Wastewater Assets
• Asset Planning
• Energy
• Operations
   

External:

• OFWAT
• External Consultants
• WaterUk
• Ukwir

About you

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience & Skills 
 

• Degree or equivalent level of qualification in a related subject (Environment, Construction, Surveying, Design)    
• A collaborative approach to problem solving and solution development    
• Proven experience in stakeholder management and communication    
• Proven understanding of how to communicate with different engineering disciplines and the construction industry    
• Track record of successful carbon management within a large, complex organisation, preferably within a capital programme context
• Exhibit behaviours consistent with the Alliance vision and values, leading by example    
• A desire to promote and drive innovation to produce optimal solutions at lowest whole life costs    
• An innovative outlook to delivering whole life cost and carbon savings    
• Project and Programme Management experience
• Comfortable delivering presentations to different audiences, both internally and externally

Good to know

For more information on the role please contact Arwel.Jones@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
•    Enhanced family friendly policies
•    Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
•    Reduction on gym memberships and high street shopping
•    Cycle to work scheme
•    Free on-site parking at all our sites
•    Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
•    Car-leasing scheme
•    Health CashBack scheme
•    An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
 
 
Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment.
 
 
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.

 For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.

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.


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