Job Description

Job Requisition Number 8487 Work Type Permanent Job Function Operational Salary £56,474 Base Cardiff East Closing Date 23:59 on 14/04/2026

What you’ll be responsible for

Reporting to the Head of Service, the Plant Manager will manage a Food Anaerobic Digestion operational site to achieve contractual, Health & Safety, financial, customer, performance targets and ensure compliance with all environmental and regulatory requirements for the site.

The Plant Manager will ensure the assets are managed to optimal efficiency and within agreed budgetary targets whilst meeting all customer service and contractual standards set under the contract with Cardiff Council. In addition, the Plant Manager will manage an operational team at the Food Anaerobic Digestion site.

Responsibilities include:

1. Maximising the efficiency and effectiveness of the Food Anaerobic Plant and deliver the business performance inline or exceeding the business plan.
2. Compliance with all environmental, emission, planning, maintenance and permitting plans. To put in place and manage all necessary requirements to ensure adherence to these.
3. Ensuring compliance with contractual, health and safety, environmental, APHA and WWOE company standards. As well as ensuring a high standard of internal and external Audit compliance is achieved (9:001, 14:001, and 45001) as well as ensuring the continual standard of PAS110.
4. Leading and supporting an operational team, and proactively and effectively manage and monitor team performance in accordance with all current WWOE HR policies. Setting challenging individual and team targets and monitor achievement to target, reporting on performance and variances to senior management and Contractual Stakeholders as required.
5. Providing advice and guidance to the Operational Team and management of emergency incidents or contingency plans.
6. Ensure the total cost of service is under control and real efficiencies can be demonstrated and reported in Monthly meetings with both Senior Management and Contractual stakeholders including NRW reporting.
7. Overseeing planned and reactive maintenance planning and provide management of Contractors (MoC) to ensure MEI tasks are completed when required and in line with best industry practice and ensuring Statuary maintenance plans are delivered and reviewed.
8. Actively plan and manage the operational capacity of team resource – ensuring available capacity is maximised and fully utilised.
9. Representing the company during incidents with outside agencies such as the emergency services, EHO, Local government etc.
10. Taking the lead when required to manage contractors on site and provide guidance under Management of Contractors when needed.

Who you’ll work with

Internal

• Senior Management Team
• Operations
• H&S
• HR
• Planning
• Finance
• Communications
• Contract Partners – Delivery managers where appropriate
• Wastewater Services management team colleagues

External

• Natural Resources Wales
• Local Authorities
• APHA

About you

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• A degree level qualification, or equivalent, in engineering or science
• Able to demonstrate a commercial approach to cost efficiency and leading large
• Scale change programmes to achieve a high-performance business culture
• Experience of managing an operational team
• Experience of working in the Water, Waste or Energy Sectors
• Experience of working with Anaerobic Digestion technology
• Experience of managing contractors to contract
• An ability to think strategically but also able to ensure effective day to day
• The awareness of economic, environmental, social and political factors, current and changing, likely to affect the job or the organisation. The ability to assess the impact of these factors on the job or the organisation and to overcome challenges and seize opportunities to optimise effectiveness

Good to know

• The role is site based, with a requirement to participate in a standby rota
• A full UK drivers licence is required for the role

For more information on the role please contact Mark.Esposito@dwrcymru.com

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

• Variable pay schemes (your salary will always stay the same, but depending on the performance of the company you could receive a yearly bonus)
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Reduction on gym memberships and high street shopping
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car-leasing scheme
• Health CashBack scheme
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family

Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment.

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision. This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them. The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work.

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.

Dŵr Cymru Cyf, a limited company registered in Wales No. 2366777. Registered office: Linea, Fortran Road, St. Mellons, Cardiff CF3 0LT

© Dŵr Cymru Cyf 2019.