East Midlands - WLB Asset Management Technical Lead - 17633

We are the Environment Agency. We protect and improve the environment.

This exciting role will allow you to work closely with our dedicated East Midlands Water Land and Biodiversity (WLB) Area teams who manage a range of assets including pumps, groundwater monitoring sites, flood warning telemetry assets, the Agency’s fish farm and more. You will have a vital role in driving improvements to ensure our assets are safe, effective, resilient and value for money. You will provide sound technical advice and facilitate local delivery to help us achieve our asset management strategic goals.

This role includes:
- Developing our local asset inventory and supporting the implementation of a new asset IT system;
- Implementing asset condition assessment and assurance processes;
- Co-ordinating Strategically Important Asset management requirements including developing key operational plans;
- Reviewing Area roles and responsibilities to ensure the right people are in the right place to deliver our Asset Management System;
- Ensuring our WLB asset management strategic outcomes and legal requirements are understood and opportunities for improvements are reflected in Area plans;
- Occasionally lead a small number of internal and external staff to locally deliver our asset management improvement programme.

You will be one of 14 Area WLB Asset Management Technical Leads and will report to the Area Environment Manager lead for Monitoring. Your workload will be guided locally and by the National Asset Management Systems Team and you will work with other Area Asset Management Technical Leads. At times you may be required to contribute to the work of other national and area teams.

The occasional travel will be required to attend meetings.

You may have worked for an asset management organisation or contractor and been directly involved in projects or the delivery of asset maintenance work. In addition to be able to manage a varied workload. Exposure to engineering projects is desirable.

You should ideally have:
• Institute of Asset Management Certificate or working towards this qualification
• Good knowledge of whole life asset management
• Health, Safety & Environmental experience and awareness
• The ability to deliver through others
• Asset management, engineering or environmental qualification and/or practical experience (environmental, civil, mechanical/electrical)
• Project / programme Management experience
• Experience or awareness of Construction Design Management (CDM)
• Comfortable using information technology and associated software, ideally GIS tools

First-class communication skills are a must and it’s important that you’re skilled at managing multiple priorities. You’ll be an intelligent problem solver too, with a methodical work approach.

We are fully committed to having a diverse workforce to reflect the communities we serve and we are equally committed to valuing this diversity by being an inclusive employer ensuring equal opportunities for all.

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.

As part of your comprehensive induction you will also be provided with all the equipment required for your role.
The Environment Agency offer an extensive range of employee benefits

For further information please contact Geoff Craig on 07802329182 or by email geoff.craig@environment-agency.gov.uk

Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 19th July

A full UK driving license is required for this role.

Presenting a case in a convincing and attractive way that will win people over, encouraging them to follow plans willingly; often succeeding where logic and reason alone would fail.

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Please can you give example(s) of how you have influenced and persuaded others in convincing way so that they follow or accept your proposals? Please explain the techniques used?

Our Asset Management System (AMS) provides a consistent framework for asset management. It covers all the activities we undertake to be an effective asset management organisation. The AMS was developed to meet the requirements of the ISO55000 standards and help us to modernise asset management in a consistent and managed way.

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Please can you give example(s) of how you have effectively supported or led an asset management activity and what was the outcome?

Selects, plans and manages contractors, programmes or events to achieve a set of Environment Agency objectives cost-effectively.

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Please can you give example(s) of how you have managed programmes or projects to achieve a desired objective which demonstrates your ability to plan, assess and deliver the outcome?

Collects, analyses, interprets, records, manages, develops and shares data, material or information appropriately for a variety of purposes.

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Please can you give example(s) of how you have collected, analysed, managed and reported data for asset management purposes

Harnesses colleagues to deliver results on time, to required standards and in line with organisational processes and procedures.

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Please can you give example(s) of how you have ensured the delivery a key piece of work which required others to significantly contribute to enable the successful delivery of the outcome

Full UK driving licence

Institute of Asset Management Certificate or working towards this qualification is desirable