Senior Water Resources Planner

Bath, Somerset
YTL UK

Do you want to progress your career within the environment and water industry? If so, we have an amazing opportunity for a Senior Water Resources Manager to join our Water Resources Strategy team!

What you’ll do

Joining a dynamic team of professionals, your role will be central to the short and long-term planning of our waterresources, as we seek to develop our next plans towards 2029.

Working in collaboration with the broader team, consultants, and the West Country Water and Environment Group, the role will require you to manage the delivery of our strategic planning.

Depending on experience, and how that fits with the wider team, this may include:

• leading the overall management of our strategic planning
• leading the development of key technical areas of our plan (depending on experience, this may include supply side, demand side, decision-making or environmental assessment)
• working with procurement to manage the tendering of contracts and appointment of successful consultants/contractors
• managing successful design consultants to maintain progress and programme
• working with workstream project managers and the wider business to align programmes and understand dependencies.

What you’ll need

This is a role where you will be comfortable taking the lead on managing deliverables to meet deadlines across a wider team of technical workstreams. This includes understanding project risks and reporting these upwards.

Within the team, you will be working alongside technically skilled people, and you will also be required to liaise more widely across the business, and externally with regulators, consultants and neighbouring companies.

Communication to a range of audiences is therefore essential to the role, both to gather information and disseminate outputs of your work.

Essential requirements include:

• the ability to develop, follow and maintain procedures to ensure the accurate maintenance of technical workflows
• a good attention to detail and organisational skills to ensure reporting deadlines are met
• excellent communication skills
• being methodical with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work using your own initiative.

Desirable requirements include:

• a degree in a relevant environmental or engineering subject
• experience in water resources planning or other technical planning areas
• experience working in a regulated environment, including liaison with regulators and regulatory reporting.

We don’t expect you to cover all bases here! We’re looking for a motivated individual who wants to build on their existing skill set in the next five years to help us develop our next round of plans.

What you’ll receive

• A combined pension contribution of up to 20%.
• Career progression and professional development opportunities.
• 25 days’ holiday rising to 28 with length of service.
• The opportunity to sell up to five days of holiday every year.
• The opportunity to buy up to ten days of holiday each year (subject to conditions).
• A healthcare package that allows you to claim back healthcare costs.
• Life assurance of up to eight times your salary.
• The opportunity to lease a new electric car through salary sacrifice (subject to conditions).
• Cashback and discounts from more than 3,000 retailers.
• One paid volunteering day each year.
• Enhanced family leave and pay arrangements.
• Access to an interactive health and wellbeing platform.
• Support from trained mental health first aiders.
• A £1,000 referral fee if you recommend someone who is successfully recruited by us.

Who we are

YTL UK is part of the international YTL Group based in Kuala Lumpur. The UK companies include:

• Wessex Water – one of the top-performing water and sewerage companies in England and Wales, serving 2.9 million people across the South West
• YTL Developments – a major UK developer currently redeveloping a 350-acre former airfield into an award-winning, exciting mix of houses, apartments, schools, commercial space, restaurants and hotels, to make a truly sustainable new community
• YTL Construction UK – a top 20 UK contractor providing fully integrated services to infrastructure, residential, commercial, industry, energy and environmental sectors
• YTL Arena – the development and operation of an entertainment complex that includes a 20,000 capacity arena, conferencing and exhibition space
• plus a number of other retail, environmental and specialist businesses.

Our people tell us that YTL UK is a great place to work, which is why so many of them stay with us! You will have a unique opportunity to develop and progress your career within such a diverse group.

We are passionate about diversity and inclusion – with that in mind, all applicants are welcome. We are delighted to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and are a Disability Confident Employer.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please inform a member of our Recruitment team.