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Salary & Benefits:  Salary range from £32,251 - £40,314  per annum dependent on experience + pension +performance bonus +  25 days holiday per annum + training & development opportunities in line with the Strategic Asset Planner progression plan + retail savings scheme


Location:  Bradford (hybrid working in place, a mix of office and home working)

 

What will the role involve?

 

You will be responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining processes and plans that deliver our asset management strategy, policy and objectives in an allocated wholesale business área (Waste Water Treatment and Bioresources) over the next 25 years. 
 

With significant responsibility for developing business cases and securing investment of over £50m per request, you will be accountable for analysing proposed investment opportunities in line with existing regulatory frameworks, ensuring any proposals meet our strategic direction. As our Strategic Asset Planner, you will play a key part in developing the next Strategic Business Plan through the PR24 and PR29 process, in an increasingly complex and challenging regulatory environment, providing technical expertise in the development of waste water treatment solutions to meet future quality and growth obligations.
 

Working with other technical specialists across the business, you will provide specialist advice and lead projects to assess, inform and influence the likelihood and scale of benefits obtained from future investment scenarios.  You will also:
 

•    Undertake investment appraisals with senior managers, ranging in scope from individual assets to wider strategic plans for the water and wastewater asset base
•    Carry out strategic asset management planning, understanding the relationship between expenditure, assets and service in the allocated business area
•    Develop technical solutions within the company process selection framework
•    Understand and construct investment business cases using net benefit analysis i.e. optimising programmes of investment through linking risk, cost and customer priorities and ensuring they are defensible in audits
•    Conduct investment appraisal and advice for Yorkshire Water assets, including short, medium and long term scenario planning, providing regulatory advice in relation to proposed capital investments
•    Perform Quality Assurance Challenges on Programme Planning EDA data in line with proposed service levels for both delivery and strategic purposes
•    Identify how new innovation could change the viability and benefits of investment scenarios, based on known technology and techniques
•    Undertake technical analysis of new or amended legislation, providing subsequent stakeholder support to identify how this could impact/support the viability of future investment scenarios
•    Identify, analyse and test developments to our Asset Deterioration modelling systems (NITRO and IDET), in addition to other models and data capture processes to improve reliability and performance

 

What skills are we looking for? 

 

You will hold a degree in a relative quantitative discipline and/or have demonstrable experience in a similar role, with good working knowledge of waste water treatment processes. With proven experience of Strategic Business or Investment Planning within a commercially orientated/regulated industry, or equivalent, you will also:

 

•    Be competent in the interpretation and analysis of policy and legislation, able to compile, analyse and interpret complex data
•    Waste Water Treatment and Sludge process expertise 
•    Adept in the use of excel spreadsheets, using advanced analytical techniques to plan strategically and solve problems
•    Be self-driven, able to identify and source data and information to support analysis
•    Have demonstrable experience of report and presentation writing, communicating ideas and concepts across the business to a variety of audiences
•    Be experienced in supporting and embedding change, able to influence others and drive the right culture and behaviours, engaging people at all levels
•    Be able to build, develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders, both internally and externally
•    Be able to manage conflicting priorities and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders
•    Network, collaborate with and influence a team of specialists.

 

If you feel this opportunity is suitable and you match the skills required, then please apply online and complete the application process. Please upload an up-to-date copy of your CV, outlining your relevant experience for the role.

 

Recruitment Process:

 

Closing Date:   10th April, 2023

 

Interviews: w/c 17th April, 2023

 

 

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

 

Kelda Group 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 membership.

 

Kelda Group 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 as soon as possible.

 

 

What's in it for you?

Career enhancement and development, colleague well-being and a genuinely positive work experience for all are key priorities. We are continuously evolving and improving our ways of working and you will support us in achieving our vision of 'taking responsibility for the water environment for good'.

If you feel this opportunity is suitable and you match the skills required, then please apply on line and complete the application process.

Kelda Group 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 as soon as possible.

The Kelda Group provides water and sewerage services to domestic and business customers across the UK, managing the following subsidiary companies: - 

Yorkshire Water, is the main subsidiary company providing water and sewerage services to 4.7 million people and 130,000 businesses in the Yorkshire region. Its activities are regulated by the Water Services Regulation Authority, Ofwat Loop Customer Management Ltd specialises in delivering customer service support to Yorkshire Water that includes billing, debt recovery and incident management. Employing more than 600 people, Loop have built up an impressive list of industry awards and achievements since being created in 2000 and is currently listed in the Sunday Times Top 100 list as being one of the best companies to work for.

Kelda Water Services (KWS) manages Kelda's non-regulated water and waste water contract operations. It is now the second biggest player in the UK market for outsourced clean and waste water services.

Kelda Water Services Retail offer quality, integrity and partnership but it is never just about the technologies behind our solutions in water. It is about the structure, delivery and even the financing of those solutions, and about giving our customers a level of convenience they never knew was possible.

KeyLand Developments Limited (KeyLand Developments) is responsible for managing, developing and disposing of the group's surplus property assets, either on its own or in partnership with outside organisations.

Kelda Group 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 membership.

Kelda Group 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 as soon as possible.

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