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South East Water Hiring for Leakage Data PRV Team Leader Job at Tonbridge, England Full Time

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Do you enjoy motivating others to give their best results?

Are you a great team player? Can you plan and organise a team? If so, this could be the opportunity for you…

We want to be the water company people want to be supplied by and want to work for.

As the Data PRV team Leader, you’ll be at the centre of delivery to ensure the smooth running of an asset maintenance operational team. You’ll use your initiative and problem solving abilities to ensure all leakage data equipment and software systems are kept well maintained and in good repair. Each year we have to ensure that we meet a leakage target set by our regulator (OFWAT). Your team will play an intrinsic part in helping to achieve better results for the company by ensuring our leakage detection devices and assets are kept performing.

Leading a Data PRV team of South East Water of between 6-12 technicians and contractors, you’ll be responsible for their safe working and operational performance. You’ll engage in desk and field based work to assist your team. In this role, you’ll promote safe working practices, manage team performance and appraisals, conduct audits, manage local budgets and spend, you’ll also plan and schedule workloads.

This means you’ll have a background in the water industry, water distribution, water production, network or either a planning or production background. You’ll be required to work across our operational hours between 07:00 – 19:00 Monday – Saturday. There’s also a requirement to work a management standby rota.

As a Data PRV Team Leader, you can be sure no two days are ever the same. You’ll help your team to solve Data or PRV problems no matter how complex the issue. You’ll check and correct problems and will know when issues need to be escalated. You’ll also deputise for the Regional Leakage Manager to attend meetings and provide area cover when it’s needed. So, what’s really important is that you bring you’re excellent customer focus, you take pride in your work and that you like to find new ways of solving problems, leading your team to get it ‘right first time, every time’.

About South East Water

You may not have considered a career with South East Water before. Here’s your chance to make a difference.

We’re here to provide today’s public water service and create tomorrow’s water supply solutions, fairly and responsibly, working with others to help society and the environment to thrive.

We deliver 520 million litres of water through 9,000 miles of pipes every day. We draw water from more than 250 boreholes, 6 rivers and 6 reservoirs and we have 83 treatment works to ensure the water we supply is of the highest quality. And, we’re investing £433 million into new resources and innovations during 2020-2025.

What you’ll deliver

  • You’ll manage the workload of the team to ensure all targets are achieved in their SLA set.
  • You’ll provide day to day operational support to the Data PRV team, carry out audits on work completed and monitoring productivity.
  • You’ll be responsible for Planning & scheduling the teams working alongside the PRV scheduler to ensure the technicians have an adequate workload at all times.
  • You’ll triage requests for night team assistance from Data PRV Technicians, distribution & the wider business.
  • You’ll review operational processes and input into improvements to aid efficiency.
  • You’ll ensure Health and Safety practices, policy and procedures for both staff and contractors are adhered to.
  • You’ll ensure Regulations Inspections are carried out as required and targets for compliance met.
  • You’ll assist in the development of Data PRV technicians to maximise effectiveness, productivity and efficiency in service delivery.

What you bring to the role
  • You’ll be experienced in the water industry within the discipline of water distribution or Network background.
  • You’ll preferably have experience with Data and PRV’s
  • You’ll know how to manage Health and Safety for teams and contractors.
  • You can motivate teams, solve problems, plan activity and strategies.
  • You have good communication and customer service skills.

What you can expect from us
  • Excellent Stakeholder pension scheme, up to 10% employer contribution
  • 25 days holiday entitlement, up to a maximum of 30 days rising with length of service.
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Health cash plan
  • Life assurance
  • Wellbeing related benefits

Everyone needs water, South East Water welcomes everyone

We know the communities we serve are diverse. We recognise creativity comes from diversity not similarity. That’s why we are enthusiastic about creating inclusion across age, race, gender, ethnicity, religion and identity. You will experience our dedication to equal opportunities and fair treatment for all: through your recruitment, employment and career progression with South East Water.

What to expect from your recruitment

  • This role is due to close 20th September 2021
  • You will receive feedback on your application within 5 days of the role closing.
  • You may be asked to complete a short suite of psychometric assessments (you’ll receive feedback too).
  • You will be asked to complete satisfactory DBS, identity and employment referencing checks as part of receiving your employment offer from South East Water.

If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been looking for, apply now!
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  • Job Title: South East Water Hiring for Leakage Data PRV Team Leader Job at Tonbridge, England