Asset Planning Sponsor

Investment Planning. Assess cost-beneficial options against the wider waste business plan and constructively challenge tactical and strategic investment plans.

Defining Investigation Needs. Set clear requirements from the outset, articulating the risks of missing data and its implications for long-term investment planning.

Solution Development. Oversee the development of asset and catchment solutions that optimise TOTEX and align with business objectives.

Driving End-to-End Catchment Investigations. Have responsibility across the full investigation and pre-promotion process for your programme, ensuring robust and timely delivery.

Post-Project Assurance. Ensure post-completion assessments are conducted to validate capital works and identify any latent risks.

Working alongside our Senior Asset Planning Sponsors, a key part of your role will be to define investment decisions and clearly articulate the anticipated Measures of Success. This will help determine whether interventions require immediate delivery or should inform future asset planning. You’ll collaborate closely with the wider Asset Planning teams across Infra and Non-Infra, as well as our delivery partners, to ensure alignment, manage investigations, and review potential investment overlaps.

As our Asset Planning Sponsor within the Integrated Catchment Management team, you will lead the delivery of programmes that investigate, diagnose, and develop solutions for catchment and compliance risks. You’ll be instrumental in progressing our catchment asset plans, ensuring they meet regulatory and compliance requirements while identifying the most cost-effective TOTEX (total expenditure) solutions.

Contractor Oversight & Risk Management. Defining the contractor scope and priorities, ensuring alignment with the tactical objectives and escalating programme-level risks to senior sponsors.

Risk Management. Proven experience in identifying, assessing, and managing risks. Whether that be at a project level or at an asset.

Analytical Mindset. An analytical mindset with the ability to interpret and integrate multiple datasets to investigate, diagnose, and develop effective solutions at both asset and catchment levels.

Regulatory & Environmental Understanding. Awareness of relevant regulatory frameworks and environmental policies affecting wastewater operations.

Performance Insight. Understanding of asset-specific performance measures and awareness of potential performance shortfalls across wastewater infrastructure.

If you’ve got experience in wastewater assets and operations and want to help us deliver great service for our customers whilst looking after the environment, then be sure to apply today to find out what a career with Yorkshire Water can offer you.

Asset Management Exposure. Foundational experience in asset management, with a developing understanding of asset lifecycle principles and performance considerations.

Catchment Modelling Awareness. Familiarity with catchment modelling tools and their role in supporting investigation and planning activities.

Programme Support Experience. Exposure to programme and portfolio management processes, with an understanding of how they contribute to tactical and strategic delivery mechanisms.

If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third-Party Company, prior to commencing employment. Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance.

Data Proficiency. Familiarity with a range of asset data types and systems and how to manipulate these to be able to show trends and articulate the decisions made.

Develop Business Cases. Profound communication and written skills to articulate the need for catchment or asset investment against a defined plan.

Wastewater Technical Expertise. Foundational level engineering and/or hydraulic knowledge of wastewater assets and catchments.

Development opportunities in line with the Asset Planning Sponsor progression plan.

Access to a company car allowance scheme.

Do we sound like your cup of Yorkshire tea?

Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution).

Retail savings scheme.

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays – plus an extra wellness day!

Although we operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it’s important to us that we support flexible working patterns and job share options (when we can), to help you make the best of both your work and home life. We know that juggling childcare responsibilities or getting that ideal work/life balance isn’t always easy!

A great benefits package – choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.

All our roles are subject to a medical questionnaire, and further medicals when required.

Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary.

Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

Location: This role is a flexible hybrid working arrangement with an expectation that up to 3 days of the week will be spent working from the office where the team operates in Sheffield. There may also be some travel to our wastewater assets.

Annual incentive related bonus (£1000 maximum bonus opportunity for the performance year).

We offer a competitive salary range of £41,438 to £51,798, depending on experience.