Head of Water Assets

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.

• Cultivate relationships with Quality and Economic Regulators, reinforcing the credibility of our operational strategies and investment plans.
• Articulate the Water business's capital investment needs, collaborating with Asset Planning to shape future AMP plans and champion performance targets for the Asset team.
• Ensure valuable insights through post-project reviews, learning from past capital investments and operational projects to inform future solutions and avoid repeated mistakes.
• Forge strong partnerships with operational teams, earning their trust and confidence in the water assets team's initiatives.
• Lead the advancement of Water Asset Management strategies, processes and systems within DCWW, ensuring optimal performance and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the overall budget and financial management of all programmes within the Water Asset team portfolio.
• Embrace best practices and cultivate innovation by identifying opportunities for improvement across the industry.
• Engage with key stakeholders to elevate asset performance and management practices, surpassing performance targets and driving excellence throughout the Water business.
• Collaborate with Asset Planning to optimise the five-year rolling programme, enhancing system functionality and data accuracy for future AMP initiatives.
• Adopt a strategic approach to asset management challenges, advancing operational efficiencies and reducing Botex costs across the water sector.
• Serve as a principal liaison for Asset Planning and Capital Delivery, overseeing operational risk, and guiding the development of integrated strategic investment plans for the AMP, rooted in Operational Risk.
• Nurture key partnerships with stakeholders, delivering solutions that elevate performance targets and drive cost efficiency in the Water business.
• Establish robust asset management processes for thorough investigations and root cause analysis, driving continuous improvement in the Water business.
• Oversee the Pre IDP2 design team, ensuring optimal solutions are developed and costed before transferring to the Capital Delivery Team at IDP2.
• Champion a client-focused approach to investment, guiding the Innovation and Optimisation team to maximise cost and service standards.
• Enhance portfolio management to efficiently identify and address risks, ensuring swift resolution of key issues.
• Lead a dynamic, multifunctional team to deliver the water capital investment portfolio while building trust and strong relationships with operational colleagues.
• Lead the adoption and governance of minimum viable solutions, ensuring effective and agile decision-making processes.

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.

• Resource / Project Management –The ability to establish appropriate course of action, either for oneself or for others, and to manage all resources (to include people, budgets, contracts, systems and processes) effectively, in order to achieve an objective.
• Corporate Representation - The enthusiasm and ability to lead by example and to project a positive and professional image of DCWW with all contacts and stakeholders at all times.
• Initiative - The ability to actively influence events rather than passively accept them. The ability to see opportunities and to act on them, to originate action.
• Leadership – The ability to understand the business needs and to translate these into a shared purpose, strategy and objectives and to motivate and inspire others to work towards these. The ability to gain the respect and commitment of others.
• Demonstrate outstanding technical expertise in Asset Management, crafting effective investment strategies and fostering trust and collaboration with operational and Capital Delivery teams.
• Developing People – The ability to set clear goals for others; to assign responsibility; to measure performance; and to seek and deliver feedback to achieve quality, timely results and enhanced individual performance.
• Influencing Skills - The ability to make a clear, persuasive presentation of ideas or facts, verbally or in writing; to convince others; to gain agreement or acceptance of proposals or views.
• Ownership and reliability – The readiness to take responsibility for projects or issues and to be accountable for their timely delivery and quality. The capacity and motivation to fulfil consistently any undertakings made. The habit of never letting people down, or promising what can't be done.
• Environmental & Organisational Awareness - The awareness of economic, environmental, social and political factors, current and changing, likely to affect the job or the organisation. The ability to assess the impact of these factors on the job or the organisation and to overcome challenges and seize opportunities to optimise effectiveness.
• Creativity/innovation – The ability to look at issues from a broad perspective, to come up with imaginative solutions, and to identify innovative alternatives to typical, unusual or difficult situations or problems.

Employer pension scheme up to 11%

Generous range of employee benefits and discounts

Market competitive salary

Onsite carpark

Annual incentive scheme (bonus) – maximum opportunity 25% of base salary

Relocation considered

Private healthcare

28 days annual leave plus public holidays

Flexible working considered