Senior Delivery Manager (Water Industry)
We are searching for an experienced Senior Delivery Manager (Water Industry) at our Kirkintilloch facility.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
RPS has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Delivery Manager to join our Water Consulting business. This is a senior-level position and will deliver and build upon our existing frameworks and relationships with utility companies across Scotland.
Your responsibilities will primarily focus on the direct line management of our delivery teams across our Trunks Mains Conditioning (TMC) business stream, ensuring policies and procedures are followed, training is kept up to date and investigation are carried out to a high standard. As well as overseeing the day-to-day operations, the Senior Delivery Manager will support, develop, and manage the strategic growth of the business stream.
About The Team:
RPS Water Consulting is a team of Engineers, Modellers, and Data Analysts providing Asset Management and Operational Strategy development, to our Water Industry clients to support business planning and delivery. This is an evolving industry, providing challenges and opportunities that require innovation, dedication, and teamwork to help us meet our clients’ needs.
Your Responsibilities:
1. Lead the delivery of all aspects of conditioning the trunks mains network for our clients.
2. Lead the delivery of our TMC growth plan.
3. Support the Operations Manager in the strategies developed around discoloration management reports.
4. Lead the health, safety, and well-being of our field-based teams.
5. Safety, ethics, integrity, and the environment – always embraces and upholds RPS's high professional standards, and advocacy - an ambassador for our wider business at all times.
6. Deliver a high level of customer service to our external and internal customers.
About You:
7. Water industry experience – knowledge of the working practices in particular managing work in trunks mains conditioning.
8. Extensive knowledge of the following:
9. Network hydraulics
10. Pressure and flows
11. Water quality discoloration
12. Flushing
13. Team leadership - experience of successfully leading integrated/blended/diverse/multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex project outputs and programme outcomes.
14. Communication – high emotional intelligence - listens and questions effectively, concise verbal and written communication skills.
15. Strive to exceed client aspiration and are goal driven.
16. You will have extensive experience in the leadership and management of field-based teams, ideally gained in the utility service industry or similar and will have the ability to deliver results in an often unpredictable, operational environment.
17. You will have proven experience managing performance and able to implement change.
18. Proficient in the use of the MS office suite, work management systems and applications are essential.
19. Demonstrable track record of reliability and flexibility
Qualifications:
20. A degree qualified in a relevant subject is desirable although significant previous experience will be considered.
21. IOSH managing safely.
22. A full UK driving license is also essential.
What’s in it for you?
We understand the need to work flexibly, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we’re happy to talk about flexible working. This is a workplace that works for you
We encourage and value different ideas, perspectives, and styles of thinking. We need a mix of experiences and skills to develop the most innovative ideas. We respect one another and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. You’ll be joining a diverse community and a company that puts its people first and prioritises their well-being.
What’s in it for you?
We will provide you with a flexible, friendly and creative environment to develop your skills and challenge yourself.Successful candidates are trained by industry-leading professionals who are committed to the personal development of their teams. We also run a comprehensive suite of training courses throughout the year which focus on softer skills and personal development, with needs identified through our annual appraisal process.
A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you’ll be supported as far as you want to go.
Why RPS?
We’re a connected community, working together to achieve exceptional outcomes. We understand the need to work flexibly, empowering our people to create a work-life balance that’s right for them. We also understand the importance of collaboration and social connection in the office environment. With agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we trust our people to find the right balance to meet client needs – this is a workplace that works for you.
RPS, A Tetra Tech company:
Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, on 24 January 2023, RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With 27,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading, global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market-leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world’s most complex problems.
About RPS Water Consultancy
It’s an exciting time to be working for our UK Water business as the workload in the water market takes off. With a broad portfolio of long-term framework agreements in place, we are ideally placed to help our clients deliver on the challenges facing them over the coming years - whether that is reducing leakage, pollution and flooding, or improving the environment and levels of service to their customers.
Our Water business employs around 1000 highly skilled and motivated people working on projects for all of the water and sewerage companies across the UK, and most of the water-only companies. We deliver a full range of end-to-end water and wastewater services including data collection and analytics; modelling and risk analysis/optimisation; data visualisation and mapping; artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions; feasibility studies; outline and detailed design of capital solutions; and development of optimised, risk-based, operational interventions.
Come and join our team and truly make a difference in the future of water!
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