Proactive Pumping Stations Manager

Circa £56,000 depending on skills and experience

Permanent, Full time, 37 hours a week

Bedford and Surrounding Areas

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Water Recycling Services are looking for two Fast Response Pumping Station Managers to join our Regional Asset Health team within Water Recycling. Reporting to the Regional Asset Health Manager, you will be directly responsible for the data led Proactive Maintenance of our Pumping Station Assets.

You will provide day to day management and lead a team of engineers proactively maintaining circa 3500 sewage pumping stations, providing both technical and managerial support and supervision to the team. You will be delivering timely proactive maintenance at optimal cost, whilst complying with all relevant statutory requirements and company policies. Additionally you will deliver the business plan targets against our Performance Commitments, aligning your team to other programmes and initiatives across the business.

This role is pivotal to our goal of achieving outstanding environmental protection and delivering excellent customer service across Water Recycling by collaborating with your catchment colleagues, dealing effectively with customer issues and other external organisations.

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

- Personal private health care

- An excellent Family Leave package – to help you support your family

- 25 days annual leave – rising with length of service

- Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6% (18% total)

- Bonus scheme

- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

- A flexible working culture

- Life Assurance – 8x your salary

- Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary

- Lots of great discounts

- Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell

What will you be doing?

Some key duties will include:

• Manage direct reports and team members, ensuring everyone has clear objectives and understands how they contribute to the success of our organisation
• Ensure high levels of accountability, holding teams to account to deliver against our business objectives, focusing output on the impact of our colleagues, customers, communities and the environment
• Critically review asset history and job data to enhance infrastructure performance, service and efficiency
• Develop employees by active coaching in the workplace to ensure compliance with safety, service and quality standards at optimum cost
• Working collaboratively with other operational water recycling teams and departments to ensure optimum asset performance.

What does it take to be a Proactive Pumping Station Manager?

• Demonstrable experience of having successfully lead/managed specialist teams
• Broad understanding of regulatory framework applicable to Water Recycling
• Working knowledge of the Water Industry
• Demonstrable financial and commercial acumen
• Health and safety qualification, IOSH level desirable
• Ability to assess risks and make significant operational decisions with incomplete information
• ICT Literate in various programmes and adaptable to new systems

Inclusion at Anglian Water

Inclusion is for everyone, and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date: 15th June 2025

Interview Dates: W/C 23rd June 2025

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