Operational Manager
Circa £50,000 dependent on skills and experience
Permanent, 37 hours per week
Location – Dawdon / Tanfield area

Dive into a world of opportunity, and join our team!

Alpheus (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anglian Water Group), specialise in providing innovative water and wastewater asset management services tailored for commercial and industrial clients. We are renowned for our advanced, commercially-focused solutions and our unwavering commitment to excellence.

The Mining Remediation Authority (MRA) exists to make mining areas safer and more environmentally secure by managing historic mining impacts, protecting communities, and enhancing the natural environment. It operates dozens of mine water treatment sites across Britain, which collectively treat over 122 billion litres of polluted mine water each year to prevent contaminants—such as iron—from entering rivers and aquifers, thereby protecting ecosystems, improving water quality, and even enabling opportunities such as low‑carbon heating and industrial water supply.

Reporting to the Contract Manager, this role will provide day to day leadership, oversight and management of the MRA operations, maintenance and administration.

You will be responsible for ensuring safe, effective, efficient and high quality work is delivered across the Northern Operations. Maintaining excellent customer relationships, managing budgets and resources, along with constantly achieving high standards of compliance, asset availability and site performance.

Key responsibilities

• Line management of the North operations and maintenance delivery team, ensuring high standards are consistently achieved and delivered, whilst developing and enhancing the team’s skills and capabilities.
• Responsible for contractor and supplier management, ensuring safe and efficient delivery of all contracted work
• Work closely with the office based scheduling and administration teams to ensure work load is managed and suitably delivered on a priority basis
• Identify and lead on continuous improvement strategies, ensuring that the safe operation, optimisation and sustainability of client’s sites are top priority
• Enhance the reputation of Alpheus through proactive actions and professional customer interface
• Proactively own Health & Safety across all sites, driving a proactive safety culture

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care.
• 26 days annual leave.
• Life Cover at 8x your salary.
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary.
• Flexible working.
• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%.
• Bonus scheme.
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

What does it take to be successful?

• Ideally educated to a degree level or equivalent in environmental, mechanical or electrical engineering
• Experienced manager within an industrial / commercial water or waste water operations background
• Demonstrable leadership and people management experience
• Commercial experience managing and delivering commercial contracts, building commercial relationships, demonstrating commercial and business acumen
• A strong commitment to Health & Safety
• Experience in delivering standards and quality services with in-depth knowledge of operational processes, quality control, and performance management
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Strategic thinker with a focus on execution and results

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date: 15th April 2026

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