Location
Orpington, Kent - BR60SQ

Hours
Hybrid - 36 Hours Per Week (Mon-Fri)

Salary
£40,000 - £45,000 depending on skills and experience

About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join Thames Water as a Field Operations Manager (Complex Underground Assets) across our London networks. As a Manager for the Contract and Operations Team, you will be responsible for ensuring that the management of all Instrumentation Control & Automation (ICA) and Mechanical & Electrical and Pressure management work is in place to make sure that our technicians and contracted partners have the pre-requisites in place to allow them to start and complete our capital and Planned maintenance programmes as scheduled. Your responsibilities will include management of all water network pre-requisites and activities delivered by the Complex Underground and Pressure Management Teams, ensuring governance of key delivery metrics, and communicating with all stakeholders in a professional manner to ensure efficient completion of Capex and maintenance programmes. You will also support the implementation of new technical systems and processes to improve efficiency, engage with HS&W initiatives, and provide accurate and timely information to project support technicians in the field.

Experience
Very good knowledge on the processes of water networks and Water Network Standards is highly desirable. Experience in coordinating teams of internal and external stakeholders to deliver Key KPI’s is desirable.

About you
You should be able to work with the Contracts manager and under your own initiative to deliver specified work streams within SLAs. You must have the ability to populate overtime usage in a controlled, reportable and fair basis, and be competent at using appropriate company IT Systems and office-based software, with preferable experience in GIS, Watercore, Waternet, Z-One, PI, SCADA, and MS Teams. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, along with a high level of attention to detail, are essential.

Qualifications
A full valid UK driving license is required as travelling to other sites and field will be necessary.