Head of Production - Walsall, United Kingdom - South Staffs Water

South Staffs Water

Verified Company

Walsall, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Salary:
To 75k DOE + Company Car/Allowance + Bonus to 10%

Hours: 37.5 hours

Location**:
Walsall or Cambridge

Closing date: 13 May 2024

Step into a pivotal role as our Head of Production and lead our passionate production teams to deliver pristine drinking water to communities across South Staffs and Cambridge.

Drive transformative strategies that address industry challenges while championing our unwavering commitment to exceptional quality, safety, and environmental stewardship.

This influential senior leadership position empowers you to oversee the day-to-day operations of water production and storage, ensuring a reliable and continuous water supply for all.

Join us in making a meaningful impact—providing clean, safe water to enhance lives and sustain our communities.

About the Role
Champion Human Organisation Performance (HOP) principles to drive health and safety performance improvements to mitigate critical risk / hazards.
Deliver water quality compliance risk index (CRI) outcome delivery incentive (ODI).
Deliver annual unplanned interruption outcome delivery incentive (ODI).
Deliver maintenance, compliance, and team activities within annual operating expenditure budgets.
Continuous employee engagement, staff retention and team development.

The Key Deliveries

Effective leadership of Production teams across both operating regions
Management and implementation of industry leading Health & Safety standards associated with all operational staff and sites.
Providing direction, strategies and tracking operational performance to ensure compliance with Defra, EA, HSE, DWI standards.
Liaising with external bodies, auditors, review bodies and regulators
Evaluation of key business processes to ensure internal controls and risk measures are effective.
Ensuring sufficient competent staff are in place and that training is evaluated and maintained at the required standard.
Effectively managing budgets for operational and capital spend
Developing strategies and tactical plans for the riskbased optimisation of maintenance and reactive interventions
Developing strategies for the management of interventions to balance the operational risks of failure.
Overall accountability for Competent Operator Scheme compliance and assurance.
Responsible for water quality compliance risk index (CRI) outcome delivery incentive (ODI).
Being part of emergency/incident standby rota.

What You'll Need

Experience of Production leadership roles in a Water/Energy or similar environment.
The ability to think strategically, make decisions, and set priorities.
Ability to lead, develop and motivate distributed teams in an agile environment.
Demonstrate wellhoned emotional intelligence and communication skills, able to influence and build effective relationships across a range of internal and external stakeholders and act as an ambassador for the business.
Experience of managing operating and capital budgets is essential.
Demonstrate the ability to engage with internal and external stakeholders at a senior level.
Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
NEBOSH Diploma or NVQ Level 5 Diploma in H&S desired.
Hold or working towards Chartership of an Institution desired.
Must hold a full UK Driving Licence.

What You'll Get In Return