Water Asset Technician

What you’ll be responsible for

As a credible member of the Water Asset Management Team you will:

• Contribute to the safeguarding of public health through the provision of clean safe drinking water that maintains the trust of customers.
• Work with the Production Asset Engineers to provide robust and valid information on the status of risks and ensure that 3 yearly reviews are completed.
• Work with the Water Risk Team to ensure that the Company meets its Regulatory Quality requirements and ensure that risks to water quality receive investment via Investment Manager due to robustness of the risk capture system process. 
• Manage the appropriate stages of the Capital Gateway Process in relation to Investment Manager in particular review of risks, data validation, verification, extracting, interpreting and uploading data to support risk progression    
• Assist in providing monthly reports for DWSPs and Investment Manager that are shared and communicated to Director Level.
• Support the Production Asset Manager in monthly reporting of team KPI’s.
  
  

As a Water Asset Technician you will: 

• Work with Production Water Asset Team to identify asset and operational issues that could lead to service failures.
• Liaise with DCWW Central Asset Planning team to ensure a consistent scoring methodology is in place and utilised correctly in line with the SMF.   
• Ensure that all recorded risks are logged using a consistent approach capturing all relevant data 
• Ensure that all risks are maintained and updated through the appropriate stages in the Capital Gateway Process and provide assistance and advice to others as required
• Work with operational teams to correctly identify issues, having a clear view of the “worst performing” assets in terms of service and costs ensuring root cause of problems are correctly identified 
• Monitor and assign actions as required as part of ensuring risks are populated with the necessary data 
• Document asset management processes and ensure good communication of these processes through the business. Look to evolve and refine these process as they become more established
• Develop and maintain good, consistent working relationships with Capital Delivery and Capital Partners
• Ensure the provision of accurate and timely management information
• To carry out any other duties as required to meet business needs   

Who you’ll work with

• Production Water Assets Team
• Drinking Water Quality Risk Team
• Production Operational Teams (All Wales)

About you

Knowledge, Skills & Experience 

• An understanding of DCWWs statutory and regulatory obligations
• Understanding of Risk Assessment & Risk Management to be able to assist in identification of the root causes of service failures 
• Understanding and experience of the operation of Potable Water Services both infra and non infra
• Ability to communicate in the written and verbal form at a high standard 
• Computer literate, in particular good understanding of both MS Word and Excel as well as GIS, SAP and Investment Manager.
• Current driving licence

Good to know

• This is a 16 month temporary position. 
• Expectation is to work from a DCWW Site or Office with occasional remote working.

For more information on the role please contact william.chidley@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.