Energy Programme Manager

What you’ll be responsible for

What we do:
Welsh Water spends around £70m each year on energy across its 4,700 powered sites. The Energy Team supports the business to ensure that energy use is minimised, where possible is self-generated on site, and if bought is done so at the lowest possible cost.   It operates and/or maintains over 90 renewable energy generation assets and manages the Company’s significant investment into further energy efficiency and generation, innovating wherever possible. The Energy team’s investment programme is increasingly focused on reducing carbon emissions as part of Welsh Water’s Net-Zero strategy.

What you’ll be responsible for:
Driving our capital investment programme, developing further energy projects, and bringing commercial opportunities into focus. You will also line manage an analytical team to identify and deliver the programme.
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•    Generating a pipeline of technically and financially viable projects. 
•    Timely and successful completion of the energy capital programme ensuring the team fulfil a client role to see those projects through.
•    Demonstrating the confidence and level of knowledge to represent the team and Welsh Water both within the business and to external stakeholders.
•    Managing the energy capital programme, ensuring clear reporting, accurate financial updates and risk and mitigations strategies are in place for each project.
•    Critically evaluating project value and risk and prioritise projects to ensure the best returns from the investment case.
•    Ensuring compliance with Welsh Water procurement procedures, management of contractors and technical standards.
•    Assisting in the delivery of best-in-class health & safety performance in line with the Welsh Water vision.
•    Working with Capital Delivery and Partners to maximise opportunities for renewable energy generation and energy efficiency within the main capital programme. 
•    Actively seeking opportunities to develop additional benefits from the programme (e.g. biodiversity or catchment management enhancements).
•    Undertaking any other duties as required to meet the needs of the business.
•    Ensure DCWW’s interests are always protected and that risks to the business are minimised.

Who you’ll work with

Internal

• Operational staff and operational managers
• Asset managers in Welsh Water
• Capital Delivery Alliance
• Capital Finance
• Asset Planning

External

• Specialist suppliers
• Regulators (e.g. OFGem)
• Distribution Network Operators
• Planning Consultants and Authorities

About you

•    An ability to build good working relationships with our operational colleagues, Capital Delivery Teams, and installers/commercial entities.

•    Ability to articulate how the energy investment programme will contribute to reducing Welsh Water’s carbon footprint. 

•    Flexibility to respond to opportunities as business priorities for investment change. 

•    An appetite to be innovative and challenge the status quo to enable projects to achieve their targeted Rate of Return. 

•    A positive and engaging approach to provide great Customer Service to internal Stakeholders. 

•    A positive Health and Safety attitude to ensure the programme meets the needs of end-users and the business. 
 

Good to know

• Mixture of remote and office work. 
• Flexible working available.

For further details contact Adam.Fairman@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 will always stay the same, but depending on the performance of the company you could receive a yearly bonus)
• 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
• 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.

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.