Asset Performance Team Leader - 13654

You will manage a multidisciplinary team with a varied range of technical, engineering and construction skills that contribute to delivery of work programmes that ensure our assets are performing at their best. Taking a risk based approach in modernising asset management. Through considering assets over their life cycle to reduce flood risk to the communities they protect.
Promoting and reinforcing the Environment Agency’s vision and culture. Motivating and empowering team members to achieve their potential. Being visible and available to provide guidance and wellbeing support when required particularly through organisational change.
Building good relationships, internally and externally and managing the team budgets. This includes forecasting, identifying risk to spend, efficiency savings and ensuring end of financial year targets are met.
Your team will be contributing to the development of asset maintenance and repair programmes through intelligent client and senior user roles.
Managing and promoting Health Safety and Wellbeing of team members, while ensuring the correct training is received and competencies are maintained to carry out asset and incident management activities.
Undertaking the role of Responsible Officer (RO), ensuring compliance with legislation, safety, security and environmental control.

Based out of our Farnham office. You will support a team of ten to manage all stages of the asset lifecycle, from planning new assets to decommissioning. The team inspects assets through visual and detailed assessment, develops work programmes through collaboration with other teams to ensure they fit with business strategies. Perform the role of CDM (Construction Design Management) client on asset construction and improvement projects.

Experience of leading a team is required, you will have demonstrated proven people leadership skills to provide clear direction, instruction and guidance through effective performance management. Ability to recognise strengths, vulnerabilities and motivations within a team. Inspiring skills development and embedding organisational change.
Have strong budget management skills and a track record of project and programme delivery.
A relevant degree (or similar) and a professional qualification such as Institute of Asset Management Certificate or Incorporated / Chartered status is beneficial but not essential.

Please note that that your answers to the capability questions will be used to determine interview selection.
Everyone starting in a new role with the Environment Agency will be welcomed into the team and given all of the training and support you need to succeed.
There are also fully funded opportunities to develop further academic/professional qualifications.
The Environment Agency offer an extensive range of employee benefits
For further information on this role, the employee benefits and the work of the Environment Agency, please download the candidate pack.
For any questions relating to this role, please contact: mark.s.hill@environment-agency.gov.uk
We also expect all applicants to be prepared and fully willing to actively participate in an out of hour's formal incident role, standby roles attract additional payments.

Using an example, please describe how you have lead a team through a period of change? What leaderships styles did you use and what was the outcome?

Can you give an example of a time when you have had to manage a employee who is either underperforming or exceeding in there role and what styles of communication did you use.

Give an example of when you have had to make a decision quickly, based on the information to hand. How did you come to the decision and what was the outcome?

Give an example of a time where you have recognised the need to change working practices in order to improve the wellbeing of your team or a colleague.

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