Benefits
* We offer a competitive salary, depending on experience up to £65,0000
* A company car lease/allowance scheme (£500 per month/£6,000 per year, based on full-time employment on joining the company). You can opt to sign up to the EV Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme 6 months after joining the company.
* Annual incentive related bonus (up to 10% of annual salary, increasing to 15% in the 26 to 27 performance year).
* Private health care (self only)
* Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution)
* Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays – plus 2 extra wellness days!
* A great benefits package – choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.
* Retail savings scheme
* Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!
Location
This role will initially be based in Bradford but we’re moving our office to Leeds Valley Park in summer 2026, so you’ll be based there in the future – Hybrid Working (2 days office a week – Bradford/Leeds)
Work type
Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday.
Job Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an Asset Planning Manager to join the Waste Networks Planning team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you?
What we do
Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.
We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity.
New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. Wastewater Networks are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.
Provide and manage a safe, reliable and affordable Wastewater Network that is optimised for operational and asset risk and delivers required company outcomes over a 2–8 year time horizon. To ensure that funding requirements deliver the optimal asset performance to deliver our performance and ODI’s across the business for our customers and the environment.
Where you fit in
As our Asset Planning Manager, you will
* Develop and lead a team of Wastewater Project sponsors to deliver Totex solutions to meet the needs of the business over 2–8 year time horizon
* Demonstrate relentless drive, energy and determination to deliver sustainable outperformance for YW that rigorously achieves against demanding competitive industry benchmarks.
* Demonstrate comprehensive financial awareness of the AMP plan and utilise this awareness when building investment plans within the AMP.
* To build and implement asset investment business plan that delivers safe, reliable and cost-effective asset performance across the AMP
* To act as the Asset Owner within the Asset Management directorate for the Wastewater networks & treatment assets relating to spill reduction. Working with other planning managers to ensure that a fully coordinated plan is submitted for best value.
* Working with Operational colleagues ensure that emerging risks are identified and appropriately managed in the Totex environment.
* Working with Operational colleagues ensure the investment plans meet current as well as future needs.
* Represent Wastewater Asset Planning at key decision making meetings in the business i.e. BIC, asset programme board
* Manage the AP team always maintaining excellence in health and safety in all areas of work.
* A technical manager in the field of waste networks & treatment, to help team develop Totex solutions, that will mitigate or remove appropriate risks at asset and catchment levels.
* Work with strategy colleagues to build PR business plans to enable the company to deliver customer outcomes.
What skills & qualifications you will need
* Clear understanding of the position and role of Network Asset Planning as well as individual role in delivering company risk management plans
* Has extensive and effective internal and external relationships
* Experienced in developing and maintaining key internal and external relationships
* Experienced in supporting and embedding change, able to influence and drive the right culture and behaviours.
* Experience of delivering against challenging business targets.
* Experienced in leading highly successful teams, meeting key deliverables.
* Extensive knowledge and experience of managing Wastewater networks
* Extensive experience of Asset Management principles
* Clearly demonstrate the Yorkshire Water company values and behaviours.
You will also benefit from having
* Previous experience in a commercially orientated and / or regulated environment.
* Previous experience gained within the Wastewater sectors or within the broader utilities, processor manufacturing industry sectors.
* Proven experience in carrying out detailed investigations into performance shortfalls on Wastewater networks
* Ability to communicate at different levels within an organisation
* Experienced in Project management
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