What you’ll be doing
as a Critical Assets Lead
You will work closely with the water and wastewater asset planning, sponsorship and operational planning teams to ensure that plans for critical assets are grounded in the operational realities and reflect the current business priorities.
Key responsibilities:
1. Development of critical asset health investment cases for PR29 and the Drainage and Wastewater Management Plan (DWMP).
2. Comprehensive risk appraisals of asset cohorts to provide inputs and insights.
3. Prepare risk reports in accordance with the company’s safety-critical asset risk management procedures and improve the management and reporting of critical assets.
4. Review of delivery and benefit of asset management programmes against the intention of the plan.
5. Work across the business to develop an improved understanding of asset health and align with the Asset Health framework. Embed learning to drive continual improvement in our long-term Critical Asset Management Plans.
6. Ongoing support to the PR24 Asset Health Improvement gated allowance.
7. Management responsibilities for a team of professionals and ensuring appropriate SME support from the team to help develop the asset health insights dashboard for critical assets.
8. Documentation of our critical asset management processes.
Base location: Hybrid - Clearwater Court - RG1 8DB
Working pattern or hours: 36 Mon-Fri
What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need are:
9. Have the ability to interpret complex data and make recommendations by using your strong communication, influencing, negotiation, and analytical skills
10. Have commercial awareness and use judgment based on the analysis of information.
11. Possess the ability to structure and frame strategic issues, identify key analytics and drive to an outcome.
12. Build effective relationships with all levels of the business, including senior stakeholders.
13. Have exceptional listening, communication, and interpersonal skills to support teams in working towards a high-functioning delivery culture.
14. Utilise your excellent organisation and planning skills.
15. Role model the Thames Water values and lead with PACE (personal, accountable, collaborative and engaging leadership)
16. Degree level or equivalentprofessional body qualification
17. Best practice Asset Management, e.g., IAM qualifications / prior experience
What’s in it for you?
18. Competitive salary from £ 62,215 to £64,704 per annum depending on experience.
19. 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
20. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to both company and individual performance measures and targets
21. Generous Pension Scheme through AON
22. Private Medical Health Care
23. 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.