Job Title: Field Performance Manager- Mechanical and Electrical
Location: Hampshire
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours
Salary: Up to £51,000 per annum depending on experience plus business needs car
We are currently recruiting for a Field Performance Manager- Mechanical & Electrical to be responsible and accountable for the performance and effectiveness of a team of highly skilled mechanics and electricians within the Hampshire area. Your role will be pivotal in ensuring the team are maintaining assets (both planned and reactively) to optimise operational performance, following all policies and procedures to remain safe, compliant and cost effective.
As we're transforming the way we source, treat and supply water by investing in water recycling, water transfers and nature-based solutions that protect and restore local water sources, this is a great time for you to be part of this journey. Interested to find out more on our water treatment process, why not find out more on this link!
Reporting to the Regional Maintenance Manager within the Water Resource & Production function, you will be managing around 14x Mechanical and electrical technicians reporting to you directly and responsible for managing budget up to £800K per year. As a strong leader you will be driving team performance and focussing on performance improvement and efficiency, therefore the priorities will be 60% leadership and 40% involves M&E operational management and resolving technical operational issues.
After completing your training, you will be part of our Field Event Coordinator rota with a requirement to cover 1 in 6 standby, additional bonus will be paid which is an added advantage!
Your key accountabilities will include:
* To build, lead and direct a competent and effective team to deliver compliance, service levels and serviceability targets
* To integrate asset processes into Water to ensure consistency to asset issues, drive data quality improvements and inform investment
* To drive team and individual performance in terms of productivity, utilisation, device compliance and quality
* To undertake high level monitoring of operational performance and to take action to resolve as necessary.
* To liaise with external contractors on works affecting site(s) and supporting with managing them where required
* To ensure safety processes and procedures are followed within the operational area and ensure that the team
* comply with the requirements of Health and Safety as set out by Southern Water
* To coach, mentor, develop and performance manage the team with a key focus on employee engagement to deliver
* compliance at least cost.
* To deal with external regulatory bodies and represent the company to the media as required
* To manage events and incidents in own team/operational area in and out-of-hours as required.
To be successful in this role, you will be a strong leader with a good understanding of all operational processes and how they link end-to-end with good understanding of mechanical and/or electrical disciplines. It will be highly desirable for you to have NVQ Level 3, and BTECH Level 3 in Mechanical or Electrical engineering qualification. With your proactive nature and being a self-starter, you will be passionate in driving your team to be high performers keen to make a difference to our customers and environment in this highly rewarding role. Utilising your technical abilities, you will remain focussed in making the required improvements to keep our sites running without any interruptions! You can find more information here on our improvement work as part of journey to fulfil our commitment to our customers.
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Interested in the role?
We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications so if you are interested in the position please do send your application over today to ensure consideration.
Every Body Welcome
We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to facilitate your participation in the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to showcase their skills and experience.
We succeed together
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
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Our Benefits
* Company and performance-related bonus
* Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
* Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
* Health benefits through a Cash Plan
* Two paid community volunteering days a year
* 25 days annual holiday
* Occupational health service
* Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
* Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
* We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
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Need flexibility in your work?
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role? #LI-Hybrid