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Wastewater Asset Planner

An exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen within the South Risk & Lifecyle Planning Team to become a Wastewater Asset Planner. The role of Asset Planner within the Strategic Customer Service Planning (SCSP) Directorate is to understand asset performance and risk to support the delivery of customer focussed interventions.

We are looking for someone to help shape strategies for the future, while involving stakeholders at all levels within and out with the business. This is an interesting role where you will be given the opportunity to enhance your technical and people skills by interacting with various areas of the Scottish Water business. You will be empowered to make decisions and take ownership for the assets you are responsible for while working in a collaborative and dynamic environment.

Future Transformation

SCSP are currently working on several transformation initiatives through Sustainable Investment Decision Making (SIDM). The Asset Planner Role will transform into a Wastewater System or Risk Planner role. The future role will support asset system level planning, linked with investment appraisals and management approaches (MA). The responsible person will align investment and pro-active asset inspection, enhancing asset data held within corporate systems to support future investment and risk profile modelling. This allows us to transform how we work and empower smarter investment choices which enable sustainable and inclusive economic growth to support a flourishing Scotland.

With Scottish Water’s new Hybrid Working guidelines, it is anticipated that a large part of the role can be carried out from the location that suits you best (including from your home) but that some travel will be required to other Scottish Water offices and occasional travel may be required to project sites. A driving licence is essential for this role.

What You’ll Need

We are looking for someone who has an understanding of Asset risk/ performance and their impact on the environment and customer service, as well as experience or awareness of wastewater services, asset management or water industry regulations. The candidate must be a proactive problem solver who strives to deliver sustainable results, who can effectively plan and prioritise skills based on evaluated evidence from a range of sources.

Excellent communication skills are key as we would like the successful role holder to build strong relationships by influencing and engaging communities across the business. Alongside this, written communication skills are also important as well-structured technical reports and presentations will be required, with specifications providing focussed information and actionable recommendations.

We will provide the candidate with training where required, however, it would be advantageous if the person has experience using tools such as PowerBi, ARC GIS (or equivalent), Maximo and Copperleaf to identify trends and insights as well as knowledge of core corporate systems including Astro and P3M (Unifier). It would also be beneficial to have knowledge of, or ability to relate to current operational/planning approaches and challenges within Scottish Water or the wider water industry and an understanding of the principles and components of ISO55000.

What You’ll Get

The salary band for this role is £35,384 £47,924 (depending on experience) and it is a full-time position.

You can also expect:

Closing Date Friday the 16th June 2023

Do you have any support needs?

Please let us know if there are any changes we can make to our application and selection process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Email us with the vacancy reference number in the subject line so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

Working at Scottish Water

Scottish Water is one of the UK's leading water companies, the quality of drinking water and satisfaction with the service we provide our customers has never been higher - but we want to be even better – and you could help play an important part!

We take employee engagement very seriously and have an inclusive and collaborative work environment where we respect people’s differences. We are committed to creating an engaging environment and a positive experience for our employees.

We were recently recognised as a Top 10 Flexible Employer in Scotland at the Flexibility Works Awards 2021 and by The Times as a Top 50 Employer for Women in 2019.

In 2019 we also won the Age Inclusive Award at The Herald and GenAnalytics Diversity Awards and were winners of the Best Public Sector Employer at the Family Friendly Working Scotland Awards 2020.
We have Carers Positive Exemplary Status and were Silver Award 2019 & Gold Award winners 2020 of the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).

We aim for work to be an energising and fulfilling experience and everyone plays their part to ensure that Scottish Water is trusted to serve our customers and communities.

We are passionate about creating opportunities for young people and are proud to have achieved the Gold standard in the Investors in Young People accreditation, demonstrating our commitment to creating rewarding opportunities for young people.

You will have access to a host of benefits which include 38 days holiday a year, a defined benefit pension scheme, a discounted medical cash plan and cycle to work, plus a variety of agile working arrangements and family-friendly policies designed to support your wellbeing.

Next Steps

Any offer of employment with Scottish Water will be subject to the successful completion of a mandatory pre-employment screening process, including Disclosure Scotland and eligibility to work in the UK. Details can be found on our website.

For more information about this role or if you require any additional support throughout the application process please contact the recruitment team:

As part of our commitment to developing a flourishing Scotland, it is important that Scottish Water employees are resident in Scotland and contribute to the Scottish economy by paying Scottish income tax on their earnings. As a result we ask all potential employees to confirm that they are resident in Scotland, or to confirm their intentions to move to Scotland within 3 months of their start date.

Please note that candidates who have not submitted an application in the last 12 months will be automatically removed from our system records.