Operations Asset Performance Team Leader - 15791

We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated individual to lead and inspire our Asset Performance team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a front line team, with a challenging workload, making a real difference in Wessex Area. You will champion our approach to whole life asset management and play a key part in us continuing to achieve our ISO 55,000 certification in asset management. You will build positive relationships both internally and with our local partners to ensure that we are successful in delivering the ambition in our Wessex local outcome plan.

You will be responsible for providing leadership, direction and prioritising team activities in delivery to achieve specific asset management outcomes. All of this will require flexibility, resilience and tenacity in your approach.

Most importantly you will have yours and your teams’ welfare at the forefront of your mind in all you do;
prioritising your team’s HS&W and their personal development and making sure that Asset Performance is a place where individuals thrive.

You'll form part of our Area Leadership Group; a community of leaders within the Area, Operations leadership team and be an active participant in our Asset Management Board leading one of our priority areas.

Asset management is at the heart of what the team does. You will lead a team of professionals who ensure we have great quality asset data and flood risk understanding to enable us to plan and deliver our asset inspections, maintenance and operations. The team also support the delivery of critical projects across the area. Incident response is our number one priority and you will ensure that we are incident ready across asset performance.

We are looking for clear thinking, inspirational and self-motivated applicants, who see that providing great leadership is as important as protecting people and the environment.

You should ideally have some experience of leading people, and this may have been achieved through other non-team leader roles e.g. project management. Experience in organising and directing the safe and efficient delivery of work will be critical in these roles. You should:

• Be passionate about leading, motivating and developing your team
Have a good understanding of Asset Management and the role it plays in achieving our wider environmental outcomes
• be able to balance and manage demands on the team from internal and external sources to help prioritise and manage workloads
• have a proven track record of delivering through others including in challenging circumstances
Have excellent partnership working and influencing skills
• Be committed to excellence in Incident Management

For further details please contact either:
Steph Simmons on stephanie.simmons@environment-agency.gov.uk (020 3025 0310) or Paul Mitson paul.mitson@environment-agency.gov.uk 02030259859

We are looking to strengthen our leadership team with a person who thinks differently, is excited to challenge the status quo and includes everyone. We are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce which reflects communities we serve and welcome applications regardless of race, sex, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity or marital status.

We support flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.

Demonstrate how you lead people and teams ensuring development and supporting equal and fair results for everyone

Demonstrate how you can lead with empathy, communicating with clarity, conviction and enthusiasm.

Demonstrate how you lead a team to deliver results on time, to required standards and in line with organisational process and procedures.

Can present a case in a convincing and attractive way that will win people over, encouraging them to follow plans willingly.

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