Dale Farm Ltd
Assistant Wastewater Treatment Plant Manager
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Join Dale Farm as an Assistant Wastewater Treatment Plant Manager and play a vital role in helping to deliver sustainable, safe, and efficient operations across our 24/7 wastewater treatment facility. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your leadership skills, drive operational excellence, and make a meaningful impact within one of the UK's leading dairy businesses.
About the Role
Your role will involve supporting the Wastewater Treatment Plant Manager, you'll help drive performance, develop people, and deliver improvements that strengthen efficiency, sustainability, and compliance. Working across multiple functions, you'll play a vital role in keeping our operations running safely and effectively while building the experience needed for future leadership growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Play a key role in leading the day-to-day operation of the wastewater treatment plant, helping to deliver safe, efficient, and reliable performance across a 24/7 operation.
- Support the Wastewater Treatment Plant Manager in achieving operational and financial targets, driving performance and delivering against key site KPIs.
- Champion a culture of safety, compliance, and environmental excellence, ensuring the plant consistently meets internal standards and regulatory requirements.
- Build strong relationships across Production, Engineering, Quality, and other site teams to drive collaboration, problem-solving, and continuous improvement.
- Take ownership of workforce planning activities, ensuring effective shift coverage and the efficient management of holiday and absence requirements.
- Contribute to the successful delivery of site improvement and capital investment projects, helping to enhance plant capability, efficiency, and performance.
- Identify and implement opportunities to reduce costs, improve processes, and maximise operational effectiveness as part of the site's continuous improvement and profit enhancement programmes.
- Lead and support root cause investigations, turning operational challenges into opportunities for improvement through effective corrective and preventative actions.
- Help develop and motivate a high-performing team, creating a culture of accountability, engagement, and continuous learning.
- Act as a deputy to the Wastewater Treatment Plant Manager when required, providing confident leadership and ensuring continuity of operations.
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Essential Criteria
- A degree qualification in Engineering, Environmental Science, Process Engineering, or a related discipline.
- A minimum of 2 years' experience within wastewater treatment, utilities, manufacturing, or another process-driven operational environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using SCADA systems and operational data to monitor performance, identify trends, and drive continuous improvement.
- A proactive and forward-thinking approach, with a passion for operational excellence, sustainability, and delivering results.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively across multiple departments.
- The ability to lead, motivate, and develop teams, creating a positive and high-performing working culture.
- A continuous improvement mindset, with a proven ability to identify opportunities to improve efficiency, optimise performance, and reduce costs.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic 24/7 operational environment.
- A hands-on approach, coupled with the ability to make sound operational decisions and take ownership of challenges.
- The ambition and drive to develop as a future leader within a critical operational function.
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Desirable Criteria
- Minimum of 2 years' relevant operational experience, including experience working within a wastewater treatment plant or a similar process-driven environment.
Why Dale Farm?
We have a lot to offer at Dale Farm, not only to our farmer members that we support but also to our employees, and we are committed to a learning and development journey for all. In addition to a competitive salary commensurate with the role and our standard benefits such as 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and contributory company pension, we also offer benefits such as Life Assurance, full wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme, and enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave.
We are proud to promote an open and supportive culture which is based on our core values:
- Teamwork
- Positivity
- Resolve
- Ambition
- Curiosity
- Accountability
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