Emergency Planning Manager

Emergency Planning Manager

Role Description

Purpose

The Emergency Planning Manager is a business-critical position that plays a leading role in the provision of strategic direction for NI Water, ensuring compliance with legislative requirements, such as The Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 and The Preservation of Services and Civil Emergency Measures Direction 2010.

The roleholder will be responsible for the development and maintenance of NI Water’s Major Incident Plan to minimise the impact of adverse events on our customers, the environment and our business.

The Emergency Planning Manager will champion participation in incident teams through collaboration with senior managers and ensure the competence of incident team players through the ongoing development and delivery of a training and exercise programme.

The roleholder will lead, influence and create strategies that support emergency response, both internally and externally. They will represent NI Water externally with regulators, multiagency partners and stakeholders at a regional and national level, whilst influencing and creating strategies to ensure business and industry resilience.

The Emergency Planning Manager will be confident working in a fast paced, reactive environment. They will be expected to work with cross-functional teams and be able to influence and manage multiple stakeholders, including senior management/ Executive Team.

Business Area Responsibilities

Intelligent Operations is central within the Customer & Operations directorate, ensuring excellent customer service delivery both directly to customers and indirectly through our service provision to operational colleagues.

Emergency Planning ensures we can continue to optimise water and wastewater services for our customers during events that are beyond business-as-usual activity, using processes that allow for a seamless transition to incident level and back again, increasingly utilising intelligent data and visualisation tools to support incident management and situational reporting.

Please refer to the Candidate Brief below for further details of role responsibilities.

Applicants MUST be able to demonstrate in their application and where necessary at interview:

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

1. A third level qualification (HNC/HND/Degree) in a relevant area AND a minimum of two years’ relevant experience of management of security and resilience operations, including operational implementation and planning, within a utility company, local authority or emergency service.

OR (in the absence of a third level qualification)

A minimum of four years’ relevant experience of management of security and resilience operations, including operational implementation and planning, within a utility company, local authority or emergency service.

2. An understanding of NI Water’s legislative and regulatory requirements and the UK/ Northern Ireland Resilience structure, including the Civil Contingencies Act and the Security & Emergency Measures Direction.

3. Demonstrable experience of developing and implementing strategies for use in emergency situations to ensure preservation of essential services or protection of health & safety.

4. Demonstrable experience of developing and delivering training programmes and test exercises including debriefings

5. Demonstrable experience of developing and maintaining effective internal and external relationships using influencing and negotiation skills, including collaboration with key external agencies.

6. Experience of demonstrating excellent communication skills including the ability to collate key customer and asset data from various sources and produce professional written reports, suitable for senior internal/external stakeholder audiences.

7. Experience of preparing and delivering articulate presentations on complex issues, both internally and to professional external audiences.

8. A working knowledge of the aims and objectives of Emergency Planning, the types of risks/threats that may cause a major incident to be invoked and a typical incident team structure for effective incident management.

9. Understanding of the collaborative approach required across functions/directorates to optimise service response during incidents.

10. Possession of a full, current driving licence and access to a car for official business.

Salary

This role offers a competitive remuneration package with a salary scale of £42,356 to £55,808 per annum (pay award pending).

The starting salary will normally be at the first point of the scale.

Location

Westland House, 40 Old Westland Road, Belfast, BT14 6TE.

What we Offer

• Generous annual leave and public/privilege holidays
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Hybrid Working (applicable to some of our roles after three months following onboarding and training)
• Occupational sick pay
• Employee assistance programmes
• Cycle to work scheme
• One of the largest corporate volunteering schemes in NI
• Award winning health and wellbeing programme which focuses on supporting four key area of employee health; Physical, Mental, Social and Financial

How to Apply

To submit your application, please click APPLY NOW.

For additional information about the role please download a Candidate Brief from the Additional Documents section below.

Closing date for submission of Applications: Monday 22nd April 2024 at 10.00am

Interview dates: Wednesday 1st & Thursday 2nd May 2024