Asset Management FCRM Officer - 10545

1
North West
Sale
Mirwell Depot
Staff Grade 4
Permanent
Full Time
Programme and Project Management
£27,572
We are looking for a Grade 4 Officer to support our routine maintenance planning and delivery. You will ensure flood defences are effectively maintained across Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire.

You will work closely with our internal Field Teams and contractors providing them with a robust maintenance programme, providing quality assurance as well as advice and guidance. You will develop and monitor the maintenance programmes. You will ensure our asset data is correct and provide reports on maintenance delivery. You will attend meetings and liaise with local authorities and other key stakeholders.

You'll work closely with the Routine Maintenance Technical Lead and Team Leaders providing advice on delivery of the programme. You will coach and mentor other team members by sharing your knowledge and experience of asset management and flood risk management.
The Asset Performance team is responsible for ensuring Flood and Coastal Risk Management assets are constructed, inspected, surveyed, assessed, maintained and operated in a safe, effective and efficient manner. Reducing flood risk to people and property and ensuring they operate to agreed service levels and standards. During a flood event, we operate our flood assets to deliver the Environment Agency’s operational response in collaboration with our partners.
You have worked for an asset management organisation that manages field or site based assets. Your experience and training means you have been directly involved in asset maintenance work.

You should ideally have:

• Experienced in using information technology systems to develop work programmes.
• Practical experience in managing assets, ideally within the flood risk sector.
• Health, Safety & Environmental experience and awareness.
• Construction based Engineering qualification and/or practical experience
• Understanding of Construction Design Management (CDM)

Effective 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. You'll be organised and have attention to detail to ensure our work is delivered to a high standard.

A full UK driving license is required.
This vacancy is permanent.
The post is based at Sale Depot. Frequent travel to other offices and site visits are required as part of the role and you will be encouraged to take on an incident role.
Closing date for applications: 26th April 2019 at 23:55 hours
For further information please contact:
Stuart Lester 02030 251046 stuart.lester@environment-agency.gov.uk
or, Angela Gallagher 02030 250417 angela.gallagher@environment-agency.gov.uk

26/04/2019, 23:55 hours

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Full Driving License
If you are applying from the Civil Service please note that the Environment Agency is not a part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant in the event of being appointed. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.

We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.

We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

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This Vacancy is closed to applications.