# Large Water & Waste Infrastructure Oversight Lead **Company**: Ofwat (Water Services Regulation Authority) **Location**: Birmingham, West Midlands, England, West Midlands **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Salary**: GBP 59,660 - 70,000 per year **Category**: Policy & Public Affairs **Apply**: https://www.jobsgopublic.com/job/large-water-waste-infrastructure-oversight-lead-112563?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c1e1ec72-0c5 ## Description We are Ofwat, the Water Services Regulation Authority, a non-ministerial government department responsible for regulating the water sector in England and Wales. We have an opportunity for a Large Water & Waste Infrastructure Oversight Lead to join our Water Supply team within RAPID & Environmental Planning Directorate. The water sector is entering a new chapter. The government has set out a bold new direction, bringing together expertise from across the sector to deliver better outcomes for customers and the environment. We are collaborating with fellow regulators to respond to recommendations in The Independent Water Commission Report, the Welsh Government’s response to the Green Paper, Shaping the Future of Water Governance in Wales, and the Government’s White Paper, A new vision for water. Ofwat is working with the government and other regulators to help create a new body for England, bringing together our strengths with those of the Drinking Water Inspectorate, the Environment Agency and Natural England. We are also continuing to work with the Welsh Government to support decisions on the future arrangements for Wales. While these changes take shape, our mission remains the same: to hold water companies to account, drive performance, and ensure the sector delivers real value for customers, communities, and the environment. If you’re passionate about making a difference, this is a unique moment to join us and help shape the future of water, and together we can continue to make a positive impact. **Job description** We're looking for a Large Water & Waste Infrastructure Oversight Lead to join our Water Supply team within the RAPID and Environmental Planning directorate at Principal level. The sector is facing unprecedented challenges, and we want someone who relishes the opportunity to apply their skills and experience to improve our water environment. Whilst there are specific policy areas you will lead on, you will also play an important role in driving the collaborative work programme across Governments and with other regulators to improve future water resources management. The Large Water & Waste Infrastructure Oversight Lead role has an important and valuable contribution to enable us to deliver on our goals and regulatory commitments. Primarily, you will lead the large scheme gated process and our oversight of development of large water and wastewater schemes within it. These complex schemes received funding at the 2024 price review and are required to address the growing challenges the industry faces. The gated process you will lead ensures their timely development continues to demonstrate technical feasibility and cost efficiency for customers and the environment. To achieve this, you will lead our strategy for engaging and building relationships with water companies and their programme delivery and technical teams, wider governments, regulators and a varied range of stakeholders. You will also lead on policy decisions within the process and develop policy to shape its ongoing evolution. Your role may also cover areas such as the Asset Improvement Process – coordinating the process and bringing together engineering, asset management, economics, assurance and regulatory stakeholders to identify, develop and justify investment programmes for Ofwat funding. You will also work to align technical and programme insights across dependant regulatory processes and teams. This includes technical planning processes, such as water resources management plans (WRMPs) and drainage and wastewater management plans (DWMPs), as well as economic and delivery processes, including future price reviews, cost change processes, delivery plans and price control deliverables (PCDs). **Key deliverables:** - Lead the large scheme gated process, including leading on policy decisions within the process for investment communication and programme delivery. - Lead on our technical and engagement steer of the large scheme gated process, including advising on engineering issues and building relationships with water companies and their programme and technical teams, and wider regulators. - Lead and support on other areas of cross-process and cross-regulatory work to align decisions across partner regulators and delivery frameworks, including asset improvement processes, WRMPs, DWMPs, business plan links, cost change processes and PCDs. - Manage a team of scheme leads and supporting specialists, including directing on key milestones and timelines, programme requirements and training. - Contribute to the RAPID and Environmental Planning directorate strategy and the Price Review directorate more broadly as required. **Person specification** To be successful in this role you will need the below essential attributes, experience, skills and knowledge: **Experience, skills and knowledge** - Relevant technical experience within engineering, science, capital programmes, asset management and/or business planning, working at a senior level, ideally within the water industry. - Academic or professional experience of wider environmental issues and good knowledge/understanding of those related to the water industry. - Experience of policy development and implementation, and/or designing and delivering programmes of work or processes within a relevant field. - Significant experience of building and maintaining constructive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, influencing decisions and delivering outcomes across organisational boundaries. - Highly numerate with significant experience of leading and completing complex technical analysis, critically evaluating the work of others and providing evidence-based recommendations. - Excellent communication (oral and written) skills, including the ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences in order to inform policy making, decision making or recommendations. **Attributes** - Delivers Outcomes - Adaptable Thinker - Champion and Leader of Change - Promotes Collaboration **Benefits** - Good employer pension contributions. - 25 days’ annual leave (increasing to 30 with each year of service) plus bank holidays and an extra 2.5 days of privilege leave - Access to exclusive discounts on a variety of goods and services, including retail outlets, theatre tickets, holidays, insurance, and a gym membership - Flexible working arrangements that suit your lifestyle - Fees paid for membership of relevant professional bodies - Up to 3 volunteering days per year - Recognition vouchers scheme - Generous shared parental leave and pay - Enhanced sick pay - Regular development opportunities - Health and wellbeing initiatives - Cycle-to-work scheme - Season ticket loan for home-to-office travel - Free eye tests and contribution to lenses/spectacles for VDU users ## Skills ### Required - engineering - science - capital programmes - asset management - business planning - policy development - implementation - programme delivery - stakeholder management - technical analysis - communication --- Source: [Apply at jobsgopublic.com](https://www.jobsgopublic.com/job/large-water-waste-infrastructure-oversight-lead-112563?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)