Contract Technician – Yorkshire Water Careers Leeds

Overview

Position Title: Contract Technician

Company: Yorkshire Water

Location: Leeds, UK

Job Description

With an annual spend of c.£80m the frameworks cover a breadth of services and provision of goods including chemical supply, pumps and estate management. There are a significant number of contracts under management within YW and each one has a critical role to play in terms of performance commitment delivery, customer experience and YW’s overall reputation.

The role holder will support delivery of health and safety, performance commitments, service, value, and compliance through the effective and efficient contract management. This includes the administration of frameworks and contract with a focus on specification clauses; variations; risks, quality of workmanship and the overall commercial and service interests needs of the customers, stakeholders, and the business.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring effective administration and maintenance of contract records and documentation such as insurance
• Providing commercial data/information and contribute to the preparation of financial reports
• Providing technical support to team members and wider YW/Partner teams including providing performance data
• Work with contractors, suppliers, and stakeholders to maintain professional, effective relationships
• Ensure excellent standards and performance in health and safety.
• Demonstrate financial awareness when making day to day business decisions
• Support commercial processes for mini-tenders under the frameworks as required
• Support service escalation to ensure a consistently high level of service during extreme weather conditions, major asset failure and elevated customer contacts
• Drive excellent standards and performance in health and safety and ensure compliance with the YW Safety Policy
• Provide support to other teams in the Contract Management functions
• Coordinate regular and ad-hoc meetings
• Support audit and assurance activity

Requirements:

• Develops and maintains effective internal and external relationships
• Experience of supporting change
• Clearly demonstrates the Yorkshire Water company values and behaviours
• Experience of basic financial management incl. budget tracking
• Good level communication skills – ability to communicate and engage people at all levels
• Knowledge of operational assets and operations