Overview
DPC Environmental Strategy Manager – Permanent, 37 hours per week. Location: Bradford, hybrid working (1-2 office days per week).
Water Utility Company based in Yorkshire region of England. We are looking for a DPC Environmental Strategy Manager to join the Regulatory Environmental team at Yorkshire Water and help provide excellent service to our customers while protecting the environment.
Responsibilities
* Ensure compliance with all statutory environmental considerations and identify opportunities for environmental enhancement through improved design/mitigation/innovation.
* Identify and coordinate key environmental dependencies across the four DPC projects for the Environmental workstream.
* Lead the DPC Environmental activities: preparing documentation for regulatory submissions including RAPID gateway submissions and Ofwat DPC stages; coordinate environmental inputs on SRO projects into Price Review, WRMP and other regulatory submissions where necessary.
* Establish and manage governance and assurance processes for effective decision making and approvals of DPC environmental activities, aligning with existing Yorkshire Water processes where necessary.
* Manage risks, issues and opportunities across environmental activities and the wider DPC programme, escalating key risks through the governance process.
* Be a member of the DPC Leadership team, facilitating regular programme meetings to track progress and escalate decisions related to DPC environmental matters.
What Skills & Qualifications You Will Need
* Detailed understanding of the SRO process and, in particular, the Rapid Gated requirements for environmental components, preferably with knowledge of the All Company Working Group (ACWG) approaches.
* Experience in developing environmental scopes, both technical and non-technical report writing, and compiling/quality assuring deliverables.
* Degree in a relevant discipline.
* Detailed understanding of UK water policy and environmental legislation.
* Substantial experience of regulatory liaison and management.
* Ability to work across teams and business units on a variety of levels.
* Ability to manage complex stakeholder engagement and find compromise solutions.
* Ownership and a positive attitude to solving problems.
You Will Also Benefit From Having
* Postgraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
* Membership of appropriate professional body.
* Strong interpersonal skills to influence and negotiate on environmental legislation matters at regional and national levels.
* Experience of delivering against challenging business targets.
Other Information
We operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and support flexible working patterns and job share options where possible to help work-life balance. We may require pre-employment checks including a Basic Disclosure Check and, depending on the role, security vetting.
All roles are subject to a medical questionnaire and further medicals when required. We are committed to removing barriers and making recruitment accessible. If you have an accessibility need, disability or condition that requires changes to the recruitment process, please include this information in your application so we can discuss reasonable adjustments.
Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date; no agencies please.
No agencies please
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