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A Foul Water Treatment Contract Manager is required to hold the business portfolio for all sewerage treatment, pumping stations and septic tanks across the operating regions. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering all cyclical programmes, maintenance works, reactive repairs in the most efficient way and will ensure the quality of the sewerage treatment services provided to all customers is of the highest quality.
The Foul Water Treatment Contract Manager will be responsible for managing all job raising and service chargeable budgets relevant to Foul Water Treatment plants, ensuring they are functional and compliant with the Environmental agencies agreements.
The Foul Water Treatment Contract Manager will be home based however there will be a requirement to travel when required to site and to regional offices located in Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Devon & Cornwall.
Key duties:
- Promote and deliver a 'SafetyFirst’ culture ensuring that customers and employee's safety always comes first.
- Provide contract management including client relations between contractor and customer to achieve maximum potential.
- Manage all service chargeable budgets relevant to Foul Water Treatment plants across all regions, ensuring that they are functional and compliant, and expenditure kept within budgets
- Assist in maintaining departmental project boards,databases,spreadsheets,word documents and provide expertise in respect to all relevant systems.
- Work closely with the other stakeholders,managers,heads of service,assistant directors and directors on all aspects of maintenance, repair & major planned work of the assets to maintain consistency across the group.
- Support the Head of Service in the development and implementation or both planned cyclical and responsive contracts associated with Sewage Treatment.
- Pro-actively responding to queries and complaints ensuring they are resolved in a timely manner.
- Work closely with employees to ensure that relevant Foul Water information and contracts are implemented and managed at point of hand over and contract duration.
- Work with the Head of Estates Services & the Group Procurement team to ensure that the procurement of required work and services within the portfolio are consistent with the agreed Procurement Strategy and delivers value for money.
- Ensure that all contracts are procured in line with agreed tendering policies and procedures and authorised within Financial Regulations.
- Ensure that the management of the foul water treatment contracts meets all required standards of performance, including audit, time, cost, quality and customer satisfaction.
- Produce regular reports on supplier performance ensuring that early remedial action can be taken under the contract and if necessary, ensuring that contracts are determined in line with the authority delegated under standing orders.
Required experience and qualifications:
- Relevant professional qualification or experience in waste water plants/management.
- Previous contract management experience in a commercial business environment.
- Ability to manage contractors to ensure high standards are delivered on time, every time and within budget.
- A good understanding of both basic Health and Safety legislation,Waste Disposal legislation and Environmental legislation and policies.
- Ability to undertake COSHH assessments,risk assessments and safe systems of work. Able to interpret contract drawings and implement changes as specified.
- A high degree of knowledge of health & safety relating to foul water treatment and working in sewage treatment plant, pumping stations and Septic settings.
