Senior Water Resources Planner

Description

Within the team, you will be working alongside technically skilled people, and you will also be required to liaise more widely across the business, and externally with regulators, consultants and neighbouring companies.

This is a role where you will be comfortable taking the lead on managing deliverables to meet deadlines across a wider team of technical workstreams. This includes understanding project risks and reporting these upwards.

Working in collaboration with the broader team, consultants, and the West Country Water and Environment Group, the role will require you to manage the delivery of our strategic planning.

• working with workstream project managers and the wider business to align programmes and understand dependencies.
• leading the overall management of our strategic planning
• working with procurement to manage the tendering of contracts and appointment of successful consultants/contractors
• leading the development of key technical areas of our plan (depending on experience, this may include supply side, demand side, decision-making or environmental assessment)
• managing successful design consultants to maintain progress and programme

Requirements

We don't expect you to cover all bases here! We're looking for a motivated individual who wants to build on their existing skill set in the next five years to help us develop our next round of plans.

Communication to a range of audiences is therefore essential to the role, both to gather information and disseminate outputs of your work.

• excellent communication skills
• being methodical with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work using your own initiative.
• experience working in a regulated environment, including liaison with regulators and regulatory reporting.
• experience in water resources planning or other technical planning areas
• a degree in a relevant environmental or engineering subject
• a good attention to detail and organisational skills to ensure reporting deadlines are met
• the ability to develop, follow and maintain procedures to ensure the accurate maintenance of technical workflows

Benefits

Our people tell us that YTL UK is a great place to work, which is why so many of them stay with us! You will have a unique opportunity to develop and progress your career within such a diverse group.

• Enhanced family leave and pay arrangements.
• Access to an interactive health and wellbeing platform.
• Support from trained mental health first aiders.
• One paid volunteering day each year.
• Life assurance of up to eight times your salary.
• A healthcare package that allows you to claim back healthcare costs.
• Career progression and professional development opportunities.
• A combined pension contribution of up to 20%.
• The opportunity to sell up to five days of holiday every year.
• The opportunity to lease a new electric car through salary sacrifice (subject to conditions).
• The opportunity to buy up to ten days of holiday each year (subject to conditions).
• A £1,000 referral fee if you recommend someone who is successfully recruited by us.
• Cashback and discounts from more than 3,000 retailers.
• 25 days' holiday rising to 28 with length of service.

Training + Development

Interview process

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