Role: Technical Optimiser in Process & Pumping
Salary & Benefits: Salary £39,361 to £46,548 per annum dependant on experience, annual bonus, company car lease scheme, attractive pension scheme (Up to 10% company contribution) and 25 days annual leave, bank holidays plus a wellness day and development opportunities in the Technical Optimiser progression plan. We also offer a fantastic benefits package, which includes flexible private health cash plan scheme, retail saving scheme, Online GP Service, Life Insurance and many more!
Location: We are currently looking to recruit 2 x Technical Optimiser’s supporting sewage treatment works in the Sheffield/Barnsley and Scarborough/Whitby areas, you will be expected to visit sites across the Yorkshire region, therefore a full driving licence (No more than 6 points) is essential requirement for this role.
The Technical Optimiser is an essential role in driving and supporting excellent operational performance across a range of wastewater assets, including Treatment Works, Pumping Stations, Combined Sewer Overflows, Detention tanks etc. to achieve our company vision and our Performance Commitments, Pollution Incidents, Waste Stability and Reliability Factors, Internal and External Flooding, Bathing Water Quality, Customer Satisfaction, and Optimal Energy Generation and Consumption.
The Technical Optimiser will help to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of industry leading operational excellence through liaison with various internal teams to prevent asset failure, drive mitigation and resolution of wastewater asset risks/failures and performance management of the operational team, whilst promoting an exceptional culture of Health, Safety and Wellbeing.
Key Accountabilities
Some of the key responsibilities you will have will include but are not limited to:
- Demonstrate the required health and safety behaviour that complies with company policy and that creates a positive safety culture. Ensure that all activity on the asset base is completed in accordance with all YW Health & Safety policies e.g. Control of Work, Risk Assessments, Site inductions etc.
- Plan, organise and manage complex operational activities on the sites to deliver both reactive and proactive workload is delivered.
- Provide technical support and guidance to operational roles in their delivery of the operational management of the asset base and drive efficiency and productivity through operations while continuing to improve performance.
- Act as a key liaison role between the operations and other key internal departments e.g. E&MS, Asset Management and Asset Integrity.
- Verify and investigate all asset performance shortfalls using the company RCA approach.
- Resolve high priority, complex and emergency problems, using external resources where necessary.
- Deliver the Performance Commitments applicable to role i.e. Pollution incidents, TWC Compliance, Bathing Water Quality, Energy consumption, Sludge quality performance, to help Yorkshire Water be upper quartile.
- Drive efficiency and productivity through operations while continuing to improve performance.
- Ensure the team have compliance with all regulatory and quality assurance requirements through effective planning, monitoring, control, operation, and optimisation.
- Work as part of the team to deliver excellent performance by understanding how their individual performance links into achieving the team’s wider objectives.
- Provide support and investigation in event of asset failure.
- Proactive monitoring of trends, using SCADA and RTS to improve process efficiency, and monitoring of remote sites to observe performance to drive new ways of working. Alterations to RTS/deadbands/set point adjustment as required.
- Proactively manage, highlight and escalate customer issues, to ensure appropriate resolutions. Always ensuring all customer interactions meet our Customer Promise.
- Demonstrate financial awareness when making day to day business decisions. Follow any appropriate approval process for additional work. Ensure that the most cost-effective solution is sought when an asset requires mitigation i.e. hire pumps over tankering.
- Be involved in capital schemes and commissioning of new assets and build alliances both internally and externally.
- Asset mitigation plan update & implementation.
- Always be environmentally conscious i.e. consider environmental impact of any activity undertaken on site.
- Promote accurate risk through the risk management process. Ensure asset risks are visible and representative in corporate system using incident support observed data and asset failure history.
- Drive for proactive operation, responding to lead measures, and maximising the benefits of failure predictor models.
- Support the Process Controllers and Process Technicians with onsite coaching, analytical support, and training to ensure that both the individuals and the assets achieve their full potential.
Essential Knowledge and Skills required:
- In depth technical knowledge and experience of operating and optimising similar assets to those of Wastewater Process & Pumping.
- Experience of delivering continual improvement in a process / production environment.
- Extensive experience of strategy development, deployment, and delivery.
- Strong background in data and interpretation, particularly using corporate YW systems and excel.
- The ability to be proactive and take ownership of issues, think through problems and work with others to resolve them across an operational department.
- Promoting working safely practices which are in line with Yorkshire Water procedures.
- Experience of supporting and embedding change within an operational team.
- Experience of delivering against challenging business targets and realising KPIs.
- Full valid UK driving licence (with no more than 6 points).
Advert End Date: 4th April 2024
Interviews TBC
If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third-Party Company, prior to commencing employment.
Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance.
All our roles are subject to a medical questionnaire, and further medicals when required.
Yorkshire Water values equality, diversity, and inclusion we believe that everyone should be treated with respect. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of gender, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, religion or belief and trade union memberships.
Yorkshire Water reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application.
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