Job Description

Leakage Team Supervisor
RPS are seeking Leakage Team Supervisor for our Scottish Water contract. You will manage an existing team of experience Leakage Technicians.
We're RPS, our projects are all around you. We define, design, and manage projects that create shared value to a complex, urbanising and resource-scarce world. Our people are our success. We need people who share our passion on solving the problems that matter. And where you'll be supported every step of the way. Here is where you come to build a career.
About The Team:
Our Team assess, diagnose, and determine the most appropriate solution to reduce leakage and fully support the delivery of regulatory targets and work to pinpoint leakage with a level of accuracy that delivers a great service for clients.
About You:
As a key member of the Leakage business, your role as Team supervisor is critical to helping us deliver great projects for our Water Industry clients. You will be working alongside a multi-disciplinary team of water experts on a range of different projects all over Scotland.
Your Responsibilities:

• Core:

• Inform Delivery Manager of job progress.
• Real time resource management decision making and liaising with Delivery Managers.
• Staying away to support the team as and when required.
• Act as a stand in for team members to cover sickness and holidays as required.

• Leadership:

• Ensure time sheets for the team have been completed, submitted & approved on time for your team.
• Ensure teams vehicle inspections are submitted (daily and weekly).
• Ensure the team is adhering to their objectives.
• Lead team meeting as and when required, including progression plans for team members
• Drive the team to meet any and all targets set.
• Perform end of year reviews for your teams.
• Spend an appropriate amount of time with each of your teams on the ground.
• Communicates tough messages clearly and empathetically
• Ensure teams' adherence to our IMS procedures
• Demonstrate and be an example of the RPS behaviours at all times.
• Liaise with principle engineer as required to address any technical responsibilities and/or issues.
• Identify, develop and implement any behaviours, tests, techniques and equipment to improve leakage detection and team efficiencies.

• KPI:

• Monitor performance and provide clear feedback that is constructive
• Ensures that people are accountable and responsible for their own work

• Client Management:

• Attend client meetings as required.
• Acknowledge issues when they arise in the team and act to resolve them decisively and promptly
• Encourage frequent interaction with team members outside formal meetings

• Health & Safety:

• Review and monitor all 1.09.-01 risk assessments, Hazards and near misses, BEST.
• Procuring equipment / PPE as required.
• Pick up and deliver any equipment / PPE orders to the teams.
• Audit jobs on the ground.
• Being responsible for ALL HSE Delivery for your teams.

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• Relevant experience of working on the ground locating leaks.
• Must have relevant experience leading teams.
• Excellent time and resource management skills.
• Update and review entry pack APP. as required.
• Sweep management work bank data analysis.
• Planning step testing, run step testing.
• Excellent communication between the field and office teams.
• Mentoring team where required.
• Excellent intercompany/team relationship management.
• Ability to manage priority changes as required.
• Be able to lead team engagement across areas as required.
• Always put safety 1st.
• Excellent resource management understanding and skills.
• Staying away and supporting shift changes as required.
• Acknowledges when results need to improve.
• Show fairness and thought in making decisions.
• Be Transparent & open in discussion. Generates questions that are honest and constructive.
• Bring out the best in team members, always assuming best intent.

Health and Safety:
This role may involve:

• Moving heavy items including meter / PRV chambers covers and various other pieces of equipment.
• Working in all weather conditions (this could include night work also).
• You may be required to work away from home as required.
• You may also be required to work across both urban and rural areas.
• Please note mandatory drugs and alcohol tests are undertaken for this role and a DBS check will be undertaken.

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What's in it for you?
A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you'll be supported as far as you want to go. We encourage and value different ideas, perspectives, and styles of thinking. We need a mix of experiences and skills to develop the most innovative ideas. We respect one another and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. A career here is far from ordinary. Here you're not a number, you are part of the solution.
Why RPS?
We're a connected community, working together to achieve exceptional outcomes. We understand the need to work flexibly, empowering our people to create a work-life balance that's right for them. We also understand the importance of collaboration and social connection in the office environment. With agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we trust our people to find the right balance to meet client needs - this is a workplace that works for you.
About RPS, a Tetra Tech Company:
RPS, part of Tetra Tech since January 2023, is a global firm that defines, designs, and manages projects in urbanisation, natural resources, and sustainability. As part of Tetra Tech's 28,000-strong team across 550 offices in over 120 countries, we deliver solutions that create lasting value in an increasingly urbanised and resource-scarce world. By leveraging our global expertise, we enable our clients to develop winning solutions for their clients and communities.
As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to provide market-leading development and project opportunities for our people, supporting their growth while addressing the challenges that matter. Our people drive our success, and this is where you come to build a career.
Come and join our team and truly make a difference in the future of water!
What happens next?
If we feel you are a good match, we will be in touch to arrange a competency interview. If this opportunity suits your career journey, we'd love to hear from you. All applications will be considered. Ready to apply? Please have your CV ready and continue with your application online.
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