Job Description

This large industrial energy, utilities and technical services contractor has the ambition to become the best energy management company in the UK.

They have considerable experience in the contract energy management market with long standing relationships built up over many years. By being close to their customers, they can interpret the needs and drivers of their business and offer additional services to meet them.

With the predicted and now real increases in energy costs, they have adopted a partnership type agreement with continual improvement measures being identified and more importantly implemented to deliver the promised savings.

Health and Safety is key to all aspects of their service delivery process and they have a Health & Safety record to be proud of.

The purpose of the Continual Improvement Manager role is to identify utility saving opportunities and progress these via a structured process through to successful implementation. This will be done through close communication and in conjunction with your operational and other technical staff on customer sites. Tracking, demonstrating and reporting to clients the delivered saving will also form part of the role.

The specifics to the post involved in Continual Improvement are:

Identifying potential improvements and savings in the use of energy or other site utilities or site services e.g. compressed air.

Qualifications/Skills Required

Determining baselines, before and after measurements or other methods to verify savings of proposed projects.

Preparation of business cases to include capital cost, value of savings and verification methods proposed, to allow the customer to make investment decisions.

The successful candidate will regularly be presenting business cases to their clients and fellow colleagues within the organisation, reporting on the progress from initial proposal, through to implementation and final payment.

Ideally the candidate will have an engineering background with an element of sales experience in the industry. Initially you will be selling a concept before implementing this concept and providing Project Management services.

Applications are welcome from those with an energy consultancy background and background in utilities, such as air compressors.

The candidate will have attained a BEng, BSc or an equivalent engineering or energy related qualification. An HND qualified applicant may be considered if the candidate can demonstrate a knowledge of the industry through their previous posts, experience and achievements.

The skills that the successful applicant will posses include the identification of energy savings and managing the implementation of these. They will have a strong commercial awareness and be able to demonstrate and develop commercial proposals / business cases.

The client also asks for experience in the design and operation of compressed air; boilers; combustion (theory) and motors and drives systems. They would also desire a candidate with experience in Combined Heating Power (CHP); refrigeration; electrical; water treatment and energy supply systems.

This is a home based position which involves extensive travel, predominately through the north of England to the south of Birmingham, with a head office in Sheffield.