Job Info
- Job Identification: 211
- Job Category: Planning and Forecasting
- Posting Date: 10/15/2026, 03:01 PM
- Apply Before: 10/26/2026, 12:59 AM
- Job Schedule: Full time
- Locations: Washington Leat House
- Duration of role: n/a
- Salary From: Circa £65,000
Technical Policy Manager
Full time hours – 37 hours
Permanent
Salary – Circa £65,000 depending on experience
Location – Pity Me, Durham
About the role
We’re offering an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking individual to join our team as a Technical Policy Manager. In this pivotal role, you’ll help drive our business planning and asset management ambitions, working collaboratively across Northumbrian Water Group to deliver long-term service strategies and optimised plans that make a real difference.
You’ll join a small team of technical leaders shaping our future plans for Water assets. Your work will directly influence how we manage our assets and maintain asset health, through the development and review of technical strategies that support our service delivery goals.
This is a role where innovation meets impact. You’ll be scanning the horizon for emerging technologies, technical research, and creative solutions that support our ambitious business objectives. Your insights and leadership will help us stay ahead of the curve and deliver services more efficiently and sustainably.
Building strong relationships will be central to your success. You’ll engage with internal teams, regulatory bodies, and industry peers to ensure our strategies are supported, endorsed, and actionable. You’ll also represent NWG externally, raising our profile and ensuring we remain at the forefront of best practice and innovation in the utility sector.
If you’re passionate about shaping the future of water services and thrive in a collaborative, strategic environment, we’d love to hear from you.
About you
To thrive in this role, you’ll bring a strong background in strategic planning and asset management within large, complex organisations. You’ll have experience in developing technical reports, policies, and strategies that drive meaningful change and support long-term goals.
We’re looking for someone who can apply sophisticated analytical thinking to complex challenges, someone who can weigh up multiple options, interpret data from various sources, and develop innovative, evidence-based solutions. Your ability to define problems and explore new ideas through extensive research will be key to your success.
You’ll need to be confident working with data from multiple systems, using it to inform decisions and shape future plans. An understanding of emerging theories, systems, and practices across different disciplines will help you navigate fast-changing environments and stay ahead of the curve.
It would be a bonus if you have insight into the utility industry and the external factors that influence it, whether political, economic, social, or technological. Experience within or understanding of operational systems would be valuable, but not essential.
If you also have technical knowledge of the Water ‘source to tap’ lifecycle and the UK water industry’s regulatory framework, that’s great, but for the right candidate, we’ll provide the support and training to get you up to speed.
Please note this role will require a DBS to be completed prior to employment
About NWG
Our purpose at NWG is to care for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come. We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.
We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.
Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.
Together for Inclusion Diversity and Equity (TIDE)
Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.
Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusiveness.
NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.
Our benefits
We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:
- Generous holiday entitlement, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
- Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 11%.
- Free access to local attractions.
- A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
- Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
- Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and cycle to work scheme.
- Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low-cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
- Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.
