Production Manager (Wastewater)

You'll lead and inspire a combined team of operations and maintenance employees across a number of wholesale production assets. You will performance manage your team and the assets within the production area to ensure a safe, efficient and compliant outcome.

Job Accountabilities

A “General Manager” role, not purely technically focused, responsible for the operation and maintenance of wholesale assets within the production area. You will be responsible for the operations and maintenance budget for the production area and the delivery of the financial business plan. You will also be responsible for:

• Asset performance and meeting the operational business plan for the production area
• Identifying and resolving asset performance issues, utilising support from within the team, or by requesting the relevant support from other teams
• Accountable for maintaining and driving improvements in compliance, efficiency and Health and Safety
• Performance management and training and development of direct reports in accordance with all Human Resource policies and procedures, including regular contact, one to one meetings, performance reviews etc.
• Identifying training needs and/or skills gaps and working towards resolving these
• Security and emergency requirements at the sites for which they are responsible
• Contributing to the day-to-day leadership of the area including sharing best practice, implementing improvements plans and leading on activities identified through the business plan development
• Ownership of key external relationships, including the regulators and customers as appropriate
• Working closely with key internal stakeholders to ensure asset problems are identified and resolved in the most effective manner and maintenance is carried out in a proactive manner including appropriately planned and profiled proactive maintenance
• Acting as a leader and advocate to deliver change required as part of the business plan
• Providing an effective operations and maintenance regime for the production area asset, minimising reactive work and work orders and increasing planned proactive activities
• Ensuring both you and your team members work within the clear framework given to ensure effective operations and maintenance of their assets
• Balancing financial, customer service, regulatory compliance and people priorities in order to deliver the business plan and sustainable and effective operations and maintenance regimes

Knowledge and Skills

Managerial and leadership skills are critical for this role to deliver performance through a team of people responsible for wholesale production assets. The ability to motivate a team and deliver high performance across a 24/7 service is fundamental to this role

• Experience of managing operational budgets and delivering innovative solutions to improve the sustainable operating cost of a production type operation
• Good understanding of operations and maintenance strategies and preferably have some production line experience and the ability to react and keep production moving
• Effective communication skills able to liaise with internal and external stakeholders
• Education, ideally to HNC level (or equivalent) and an experienced line manager in a process or maintenance environment
• A good level understanding of the regulatory and legislative framework surrounding the operation and maintenance of wholesale production assets
• Analytical skills and the ability to drive solutions to a wide range of technical and managerial problems, whilst also knowing when to stop and ask for help from support colleagues

Additional Information

We need fantastic people to enable us to deliver a great service to the public. We are committed to reaching and recruiting from every community and then supporting employees to achieve their full potential ensuring they feel valued and included, regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, sexual orientation or social background.If you are offered a job with us, a number of pre-employment checks need to be carried out before your appointment can be confirmed. Any offer of employment with United Utilities will be subject to a satisfactory checking report from the Disclosure Scotland / the Disclosure and Barring Service.