Asset Manager (Dredging)

Job Purpose:

Job title: Asset Manager (Dredging)

Compensation: £52,500 - £54,500 + car cash allowance (£5,100 p.a.) + benefits

Working Hours: 37 Hours Monday - Friday. Occasional Weekend Working.

Location: Remote, with travel across our network required.

We are the charity who look after, and bring to life, 2,000 miles of waterways across England and Wales because we believe that life is better by water.  Every role in the Trust plays a part in transforming our canals and rivers into spaces where local people want to spend time and feel better, bringing well-being benefits to millions.

We are currently recruiting an Asset Manager (Dredging) to join the Asset Management Team. 

As Asset Manager for Dredging you will be responsible for helping to develop and maintain a strategy and optimised asset management plan for long-term investment in dredging to maintain our waterways, supporting delivery of dredging activity as Sponsor and manage a specialist technical function providing the Trust with expertise in dredging and hydrographic surveying.

Videos about our work:

• Cruising the Cut https://youtu.be/qBfdaiRP7YQ
• Marple dredging (CRT supporters’ video) https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/news-and-views/blogs/waterfront/digging-into-dredging
• “Step behind the scenes” video for Fradley Junction Behind the Scenes Fradley _ Youtube

Location & coverage

Our Asset Manager (Dredging) will be offered on a remote working basis, with a requirement to attend our main hub spaces as and when required for team working and collaborative meetings.

Relevant hubs include: Leeds, Liverpool, Burnley, Newark, Birmingham, Milton Keynes or Gloucester.

The regularity & flexibility of travel will be discussed further at interview stage.

See our network here (https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-and-river-network).

As Asset Manager (Dredging) you will be engaging and developing effective relationships across the Trust, with our Customers and Stakeholder, and with external partners such as regulators, consultants, contractors, navigation authorities and professional bodies. Together with your team you will make a valuable and significant contribution to ensure our annual asset improvement budget is effective, making a positive contribution to improving our customer experience and protecting the environment.

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Providing effective leadership to a small team of Asset Managers and Hydrographic Surveyors, supporting personal growth and creating a high-performing team which is inspired to achievement the Trust’s objectives.
• Proactive engagement with our Customers and Stakeholders.
• Developing the Trust’s national dredging strategy and plans to improve asset condition and performance.
• Prioritising annual investment in dredging projects as part of a 5-year annual programme.
• Developing a 10 to 20 year rolling dredging investment plan.
• Supporting delivery and acting as Project Sponsor & Client.
• Delivering hydrographic surveys to plan, ensuring data is reviewed, approved, recorded and maintained in the prescribed format and quality.
• Ensuring that relevant information management systems provide and report reliable, accurate, timely and complete information that informs our decisions.
• Develop and maintain relevant standards, guidance, processes and procedures and assuring their implementation as part of an ISO management system.
• Providing specialist technical advice to both in-house and external operational and delivery teams.
• Benchmarking against, and sharing insight with, appropriate asset management organisations to understand opportunities.
• Seek continual improvement in practices and the application of emerging technologies.

About you 

This role requires both technical knowledge and experience along with strong people management experience.  As manager of a small team of technical professionals you will need to use your communication and influencing skills to engage with colleagues across the Trust, including senior leaders, and other professional teams including engineer, environmental, project and operational colleagues.  You will understand the complexities and benefits from working effectively in a matrix organisation. 

Technical: 

• Degree, or equivalent experience, in a relevant discipline.
• Full membership of appropriate professional institution, e.g. IAM, RICS, ICE, CIWM, CIWEM, SocEnv. Strongly desired.
• Experience of people management.
• Practiced in asset management (preferably strategic asset management planning), ideally with linear assets.
• Relevant experience of dredging works, plant and equipment (contracting experience advantageous).
• Applied knowledge of hydrographic survey techniques & technologies. 
• Understanding of information management principles and practice.

General:

• Aptitude & interest in IT; good working knowledge of excel, GIS, SAP desirable.
• Understanding of UK regulatory framework for environmental protection in relation to dredging of inland waterways and management of dredged materials desirable.
• Experienced in cross-functional working and stakeholder engagement.
• Good business acumen and commercially minded; innovative & creative approach.
• Strong leadership skills, demonstrable business awareness and ability to constructively challenge Middle & Senior Management teams.
• Credible and persuasive communicator & influencer, able to represent the Trust internally and externally, including negotiating on behalf of the Trust to achieve positive outcomes.

To apply:  click on the "Apply for this job" button and follow the process - complete the application form & upload current CV

Advert timeline: 

• Role closes Friday 10th January 2025, 23:59 
• Interviews taking place w/c 20th January 2025. 

If you have any questions about the role please contact CRT.recruitment@canalrivertrust.org.uk

In addition to your salary of £52,500 - £54,500, you will benefit from a Car Cash Allowance of £425 per month, a competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, great holiday entitlement and numerous other employee benefits, including several salary sacrifice benefits, all of which can be found here (https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us/work-for-us/our-benefits).

Other benefits include:

• Competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, where we will double your contribution to a maximum of 10%.
• 25 days paid holiday (plus paid Bank Holidays), increasing with years of service to up to 30 days after 5 years.
• Home working status with ‘hub’ facilities available should you need the flexibility to work outside of home.
• Annual £200 personal learning & growth award to spend on any learning related activity.
• Free access to specialist counselling on a range of issues, e.g. health, financial, well-being and domestic matters.
• Access to a range of employee benefits including store discounts, boating holiday discounts and holiday purchase scheme.
• 2 days paid volunteering leave per annum, allowing you to volunteer for a local community project etc.
• Free fishing facilities across our canal network.

At the Trust we care passionately for our waterways, and as importantly, for those who look after and use them. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce brings with it a diversity of ideas, thinking and ways of working which enhances what we do as a Trust. We are striving to represent the diverse communities that we are a part of and welcome applicants from across all sectors of the community.

All candidates will be treated on the basis of their merits, skills and abilities and solely by being assessed against the requirements for the job.

When you join the Canal & River Trust you become a member of an engaged team working to preserve our heritage for future generations. Come and share your passion and knowledge with a team that makes a difference to millions of people every day.

Find out more about us on our website: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us