Asset Performance Advisor

3
South West
Blandford Forum , Bridgwater
Rivers House Blandford, Rivers House Bridgwater
Staff Grade 5
Fixed Term
Full Time
Engineering
£33653
We are looking for several people to fill critical roles managing our engineering stock of river and coastal structures.
As a Grade 5 Technical Advisor you'll be working on whole life asset management of flood risk assets, from the creation of new structures, through to the maintenance, inspection and ongoing review of engineering performance. Key to this will be your engineering knowledge to ensure we optimise the life cycle of our existing assets.
You will need excellent communication skills to work closely within the team and our business partners internally to support others with less engineering knowledge.
You will need to be self motivating and capable of identifying opportunities to maximise our delivery capability in year and assist with identifying future years development of our assets.
You will support the team to use asset data to prioritise, repair and recondition work, lead on the post-inspection review process and ensure assets meet the required standards.
You will work closely with our specialists/advisors to provide sound advice to help deliver area priorities.
A critical element of the whole life cycle asset management is incident management ensuring that our structures are capable of performing to their design criteria during flood events.
The Asset Performance Teams manage the whole life cycle of flood defences in Wessex. The area faces the challenges of flooding from a variety of sources; groundwater in Dorset, highly reactive catchments in North Somerset and Bristol, slower response catchments Somerset Levels and Moors, and the Avon at Salisbury. Balanced against coastal concerns in Dorset and Somerset and new schemes such as the Parrett Barrier, it is a great opportunity to use your engineering skills.
Experience and commensurate knowledge of working in health, safety and wellbeing in a high risk environment. Experience working with CDM regulations in the development of projects.
Would be ideal for Incorporated Engineer or aspiring Chartered Engineer candidates with suitable recognised professional engineering body. The Environment Agency are supportive of development for staff at all stages within their careers.
Experience of working within Whole life Asset Management systems ability to translate 2d drawings and understand how they operate, be able to effectively communicate asset knowledge to our partners within the Agency delivering results working with others by coaching, mentoring of other team members who do not have an engineering background.
Working with internal and external partners/stakeholders to help deliver the outcomes of both a specific asset and its catchment understanding the relationships between different assets/catchments.
Delivering work within a programme and project management framework to time, cost and quality.
Posts are available in Bridgwater and Blandford Forum. For further information please contact:
Robbie Williams 0790 0226136 Rob.williams@environment-agency.gov.uk
Or Ed Lockington 0203 0250166 ed.lockington@environment-agency.gov.uk

18/05/2017, 23:55 hours

Basic Check
March 2019
Applies Analytical Knowledge and Experience
Although you will be part of a larger team we would look for you to show leadership by being able to make decisions based on the problems presented. Can you give an example where you applied your knowledge and experience to a problem and what impact this had on the outcome.
Health Safety & Wellbeing
Health safety and well being of our staff in the Agency is a key priority. Can you give an example of a project you have worked on that managed this aspect well. What was it that you influenced to make it a success.
Builds and Sustains Relationships
The team is made up with both technical and non technical staff we also work closely with a variety of partners, internal and external stakeholders who can also be technical or non technical. Can you discuss how you would engage with these different groups, do you have an example of when this worked well.
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