Production Enablement Manager

Role Overview

The Production Enablement Manager will provide the critical link between production strategy and operational delivery, ensuring maintenance priorities, asset health requirements, technical support, and resource capability are aligned to improve production performance and resilience.

What You Will Do

Key responsibilities include leading the Production Enablement function, coordinating operational, maintenance, and technical activity, driving alignment between maintenance planning and production requirements, and identifying and resolving barriers and dependencies affecting delivery.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have a degree-level qualification or equivalent operational experience, proven experience within water supply operations or a comparable operational environment, and strong stakeholder management, planning, and influencing skills.

Requirements

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent operational experience
• Proven experience within water supply operations or a comparable operational environment
• Strong understanding of production, storage, and distribution systems
• Experience leading and developing technical teams and subject matter experts
• Demonstrable experience delivering operational improvements and major programmes
• Strong stakeholder management, planning, and influencing skills
• Experience using operational data to drive decision-making and performance improvements
• Project and programme management capability with a continuous improvement mindset

Benefits

• Personal private health care
• Generous double match pension
• 24-hour Virtual GP service
• 26 days annual leave
• Life assurance
• Personal accident cover
• Excellent family friendly policies
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits and working culture