Our Water Resources Planning team is helping to steer Affinity Water through its largest and most interesting challenges, identifying, defining and promoting the demand management and new infrastructure schemes that are needed to let the business adapt to the challenges of environmental need, climate change and growth. 

For this role you will be asked to act as a key member of the Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP) team contributing to the production and delivery of our statutory WRMP and our major water resource development schemes. 

You will also be asked to actively participate and contribute to Affinity Water’s involvement in regional water resources planning. 

What you'll be doing 

• Project management of WRMP work packages with a focus on Supply
  • Technical lead for some aspects of our major water resource infrastructure development schemes, including modelling and engineering workstreams, and managing the development of resilient infrastructure strategies to support the integration of those schemes into our network
  • Production of WRMP technical appendices
  • Liaison with regulators and key stakeholders including water companies
  • Representation on Water Resources in South East (WRSE) and Water Resources East (WRE) regional groups
  • Management of consultants to deliver work packages
  • Environment lead for water resources planning including Strategic Environmental Assessment and application of natural capital approach

What you need 

• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline
• Experience of Water Resources Management Planning is desirable but not essential for the WR Planner role (Essential for appointment at the senior role)
  • Ability to summarise technical information and effectively support briefing of senior leaders to support decision making
  • Understanding of Strategic Environmental Assessment and its application
  • Ability to influence and manage relationships (and manage stakeholder engagement)
  • Experience within a regulated (and/or competitive) industry is desirable but not essential
  • Member of / affiliation to an environment management body is desirable but not essential

Full Job Description available on request - Hayley.savory@affinitywater.co.uk

Benefits:

• Competitive salary dependant on skills and experience
• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.
• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.
• Annual leave from 23-27 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.
• A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.
• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)
• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.
• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.
• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.
• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets and on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme.
• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.
• Life Assurance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.

What is a disability?

A disability is a long-term physical or mental health condition that has a substantial impact on someone’s day-to-day activities.

What if I need adjustments during the recruitment process?

Let the Talent Acquisition lead mentioned on the job advert know – they’ll be able to help you.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

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