What you’ll be doing
as an Operation Integration Specialist (Water):
1. Solution process sign-off – Represent the end-user (Operations) during the entire capital delivery project lifecycle and manage expectations of the solution delivery team.
2. Outage Planning - Work with Operations to plan and schedule Outages associated with relevant capital projects (align with all outage plans) and take ownership of outage requests.
3. Gather & Interpret Data - Be engaged at a local level and understand site restrictions, analyse site performance, quantify, articulate, and flag risk
4. Stakeholder management - Manage and facilitate meetings, workshops, and progress reviews for your projects. Manage site access requests.
5. Project Administration – Monitor project progress from an operational perspective, liaise with all relevant parties, internal & external.
6. Facilitate Testing – Support asset integration and contractor teams with on-site testing for projects that involve complex operational interfaces (particularly relevant for non-infra projects).
7. Operational Strategy - Working with system planning, identifying gaps between investment plans and operational requirements.
8. Operational Delivery - Working closely with Operational site teams to encourage synergies to deliver project success. Role holder is expected to be present on site as required to ensure ownership of related activity and reduce the impact on front-line teams.
Base location: Can be based out of Thames Gateway or Coppermills - East London (E17 7HE)
Working pattern or hours: 36 Hours per week (Monday to Friday)
What should you bring to the role?
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need are:
9. Experience working in operational environments with an understanding of related constraints.
10. Proven ability to deliver projects, outcomes, and budgets.
11. Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence senior internal and external stakeholders under tight deadlines.
12. Strong commercial awareness and broad business knowledge.
13. Ability to analyse, interpret, and communicate data to drive performance and solutions.
14. Self-motivated, resilient, and able to manage multiple priorities under pressure.
15. Knowledge and experience of H&S systems, processes, and procedures.
16. Full UK driving licence.
Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring:
17. Formal technical qualification (e.g., apprenticeship or degree).
18. Experience in the water industry or similar utilities sector.
19. Experience delivering capital projects with a good grasp of risks and dependencies.
20. Understanding of contractual testing and experience supporting sign‑off processes.
What’s in it for you?
21. Offering a salary up to £52,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience
22. Annual Leave:26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
23. Car Allowance
24. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
25. Generous Pension Scheme through AON
26. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.