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Our Water Resources Management Planning team is responsible for the plan to address the company’s most fundamental challenge – ensuring we have sufficient water supplies to meet future demand. This is at the core of what we do, ensuring resilient supplies whilst balancing the needs of the natural environment and affordability.
In leading the team, the role will face a range of stimulating technical challenges, finding the best approaches to reduce demand and access new, more sustainable supplies. The plans will use adaptive planning to account for risks and uncertainties, for example from climate change and population growth. This will be achieved through the production and delivery of our statutory Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP) and associated annual reporting.
You will have responsibility for the line management of the team and will co-ordinate with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. You will have overall responsibility for the technical management of our supply demand forecasts and strategy. You will co-ordinate a wide range of investigations and inputs from within the business and external consultants. You will also be asked to actively participate and contribute to Affinity Water’s involvement in regional water resource planning. This role provides an opportunity to build and develop the team in readiness for the 2029 WRMP submission and oversight of WRMP24 public enquiry as required, with appropriate external technical support.
Requirements
- Line management and team leadership
- Strategic oversight of the integrated supply and demand balance; understanding the key challenges and uncertainties we face when developing the long-term Water Resources strategy
- Ensuring data is quality assured and presented in a coherent and understandable manner
- Programme management of WRMP work packages
- Liaison with regulators and key stakeholders including Environment Agency, Natural England, Defra, Ofwat, RAPID, CCWater and with other water companies
- Engagement with Executive and Board to communicate and facilitate key decisions for the WMRP
- Representation on Water Resources in South East (WRSE) and Water Resources East (WRE)
- Management of consultants to deliver work packages
Experience & qualifications
- A focus on value delivery and execution whilst maintaining attention to detail and quality.
- Have an analytical approach and produce meaningful reports which can enable good decision making.
- Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
- Ability to communicate technical information effectively and in an understandable manner.
- Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline. Approximately 10 years of Water industry experience required.
- Experience of Water Resources Management Planning or similar water industry activity e.g. drought planning, wastewater management plans.
- Ability to summarise technical information and effectively support briefing of senior leaders to support decision making.
- Experience of strategy implementation and development.
- Proven experience within a regulated (and/or competitive) industry.
- Comfortable working at a pace and within a regularly ambiguous environment.
- Comfortable managing uncertainty.
- Member of / affiliation to an environment management body is desirable but not essential.
Benefits
- Salary circa £90,000
- Hybrid Flexible working - Office based 2 days per week is expected, Improve your home-work balance
- Annual leave 26 days rising with length of service
- A generous pension scheme that doubles the contributions you make, up to a maximum of 12%
- We offer enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave. We also have a Carers policy and Menopause policy to help us support our people through different stages of their lives.
- Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental
- Discounts for Medical and Dental Insurance, Retail Outlets
- Volunteer days
Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.
