UK Water Treatment Manager - Engineering Excellence

UK Water Treatment Manager – Engineering Excellence

We rise to challenges together.

Bakkavor Group – Remote working role with Travel to Bakkavor UK sites as per business / roles needs

Monday to Friday 37.5 hours a week

8.30am-17.00pm (with flex as per business needs / flex for employee)

Salary: £70,000-£75,000 depending on experience plus £8,400 car allowance, plus up to 20% bonus scheme, plus benefits listed below

25 Days Holiday plus bank Holidays

Why join us?   

We’re ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it’s exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals, and succeed together.

What we do.  

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us. 

About the role

The UK Water Treatment Manager will join a growing Central Engineering and Engineering Excellence Team in Bakkavor Group. You will support the Central Engineering, General Manager and take a lead role in driving the Engineering strategy across the wider Bakkavor Group. As the UK Water Treatment Manager, you will lead the water treatment processes and engineering systems to optimise the UK Bakkavor estate.

Duties and Accountabilities

• Take a lead role in the Engineering Strategy Pillars.
• Identify wastewater and trade effluent treatment solutions for the relevant industrial manufacturing and/or process application, implementation, and management of solutions through either revenue or capital project workstreams.
• Provide expert advice on regulatory compliance, trade effluent discharge and respective consents, develop and co-ordinate action plans to address identified gaps. Liaise with respective authorities as required.
• Evaluate treatment plants to remove redundancies and optimise the process.
• Evaluate and improve equipment maintenance plans to optimise performance and cost.
• Be a specialist in chemical and biological treatments to deliver the minimum cost per m³ of wastewater discharged.
• Cost effectively and reduce energy usage to achieve the required standard of wastewater.
• Systematic audit of the group effluent plants key assets operation and maintenance. Ensure safe performance criteria are maintained or improved through scheduled reviews.
• Develop a suite of key performance indicators that can be used at all levels within the business.
• Support the management and selection of external suppliers, the setting of objectives for suppliers and performance measurement of suppliers within the context of the organisation’s asset management approach.
• Review and challenge the sign-off any new energy/infrastructure requirements from capital projects.
• You will support learning and development opportunities where required.
• Administrative activities to support the delivery of the engineering strategy.

About you / Qualifications

• IOSH Managing Safely
• CABWI Diploma in Water or Wastewater Engineering
• Engineering apprenticeship (C&G/EAL NVQ Level 3/4 or OAL FDEM Diploma)
• Project management - Prince 2 or PMP
• ILM level 3 or above.
•  NEBOSH General (achieve within 12 months).

Skills

• Application of SHE legislation and procedures
• Application of water treatment principals.
• Interpretation and reading of estate layouts and P&ID’s.
• Application of IT processes, Excel macros and functions, PowerPoint, AutoCAD.
• Identify the organisation’s context and constraints that affect water treatment assets.
• Develop and classify asset life-cycle plans including performance monitoring, business cases and activities.
• Apply continuous improvement techniques and quantify asset, asset system and asset management activity-related risks; identify mitigation options.
• Comply with legislation, asset management standards and company policies.
• Collate, interpret analyse and present data for assets/asset systems.
• Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders – verbal, written and presentation.
• Negotiating and influencing
• Contractor Control
• Commercial Awareness
• Interpretation of operational performance data.
• CMMS experience. (Desirable)
• Fault finding: Electrical &/or Mechanical systems. (Desirable)
• Water & wastewater process science analysis. (Desirable)

What you’ll receive.  
  

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.   

You’ll enjoy:  
 

• Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
• Short Term Bonus Scheme up to 20% of basic salary
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• MyBargains Discount Platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free Independent Mortgage Advice
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Private Medical Insurance (employee & family cover)
• Cash allowance (cash £8,400)

Proud to be Bakkavor.  
  

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!  

Find out more and apply.  

  
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