Job Description

At Affinity Water, we're looking for an experienced Asset Health Technical Specialist to play a pivotal role in how we understand asset condition, quantify risk, and make evidence-based investment decisions that deliver long-term value for customers.

This is a unique opportunity to influence asset strategy, resilience, and investment planning as we prepare for PR29 and beyond, working across Strategy, Operations, Capital Delivery, Digital, Data and Regulatory teams.

About the Role

As the technical authority for asset health and risk, you will lead the development of methodologies, standards and governance frameworks that support robust asset management and investment planning. You'll connect asset condition data, deterioration modelling, criticality assessments and risk insights to help drive smarter decision-making across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and continuous improvement of asset health, deterioration, criticality and risk methodologies.
• Establish standards for assessing, monitoring and reporting asset health across asset classes.
• Embed asset health and risk frameworks into investment planning and decision-making processes.
• Translate asset condition and risk evidence into practical intervention and investment strategies.
• Improve the integration of asset health data within asset management and decision-support systems.
• Provide technical leadership on emerging regulatory requirements relating to asset health and investment planning.

About You

We're looking for someone who combines technical expertise with strong stakeholder engagement skills and a passion for improving asset performance.

You'll ideally bring:

• A degree in Engineering, Asset Management or a related discipline.
• Experience in asset management, asset health or risk management within the water sector or another regulated utility environment.
• Expertise in developing asset health, deterioration, criticality or risk assessment methodologies.
• Knowledge of asset information systems, inspection data and work management systems.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to interpret complex data and provide clear recommendations.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable Experience

• IAM Certificate or Diploma and knowledge of ISO55001.
• Experience using GIS, Qlik, Maximo or similar enterprise asset management systems.
• Knowledge of investment optimisation, risk frameworks or decision analysis methodologies.

Why Join Affinity Water?

This role offers the opportunity to directly influence how investment decisions are made across our business, helping to improve resilience, customer service and long-term affordability. You'll work with a wide range of stakeholders, lead critical technical developments, and play a key part in shaping the future of asset management at Affinity Water.

Benefits:

• Salary £54,000 - £65,000 dependant on skills and experience
• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.
• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.
• Annual leave from 26-30 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.
• A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.
• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)
• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.
• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.
• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.
• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets through our Tap4Perks scheme
• Discounts on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme through salary sacrifice
• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.
• Life Assurance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.