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We have an exciting new opportunity to work in Emergency Planning and Business Continuity within Northumbrian Water. You will be part of a small team and play a key role in planning for emergencies, maintaining plans and procedures, and carrying out emergency exercises and ensuring the business meets it statutory and legal responsibilities under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004).
As part of the team you will be responsible for ensuring a continued state of preparedness for the business to respond to any major or significant incident, ensuring measures are in place to maintain continuity of its core business functions where practical. You will be involved in the development of and implementation of exercises as well as participation in real live incidents and events.
The role
The role involves working in close partnership with multi-agency partners within the Local Resilience Forum (LRF), to provide an effective multi-agency response to any situation, providing a coordination function on a number of Local Resilience Forum working groups and attending meetings as required. You will have the ability to establish and manage effective working relationships with all levels and disciplines of staff within the business, as well as our resilience partners.
You will also be responsible for liaison across the business in the development of departmental business continuity plans and submission documents and action plans relating to the Security & Emergency Measures Directive annual audit process.
Here at Northumbrian, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups, as we believe and strive for community representation within all our teams, structures and organisation
About us
NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water. We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.
Our values
Our values describe our main principles, qualities and attributes. They are the guiding principles which define who we are, what we do and how we do it. They make us different from our competitors and guide our decisions and actions to drive us towards our vision.
Our values are:
- Results Driven
- We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.
- Ethical
- We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.
- Customer Focused
- We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.
- Creative
- We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.
- One Team
- We work together consistently, promoting co-operation, to achieve our corporate objectives.
