Utilities Assistant Manager (Experienced in Wastewater Treatment System)

Main Role & Responsibilities:
1. Overall governance
• Cascade and implement related policies, standards such as ISO, and related guidelines and regulations to subordinates and relevant stakeholders, in order to ensure that work practices are aligned with policies.
• Propose, periodically revise and gain approval on department's work processes, procedures, goals, strategy, initiatives, targets and plans to ensure efficient operation.
• Develop, propose, obtain approval, monitor and optimize utilization of department's resources and budget against company's budget, to ensure optimization and the right prioritization of resources and budget.
2. Function-related accountabilities
• Lead water/wastewater demand assessment, utility planning, capacity expansion, and infrastructure development.
• Conduct technical feasibility studies and evaluate treatment technologies, CAPEX/OPEX, performance, and sustainability.
• Prepare technical reports, feasibility studies, investment papers, presentations, and management reports.
• Lead/support technical and commercial negotiations for WSA, MOU, and other utility agreements.
• Define technical requirements for water supply and wastewater services, including capacity, quality, connection, and infrastructure requirements.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Operations, Legal, Finance, consultants, and authorities on project development, approvals, permitting, and implementation.
• Review technical proposals, designs, specifications, and consultant/contractor deliverables.
• Identify opportunities for water reuse, reclamation, energy efficiency, and utility optimization.
• Support identification and preliminary technical screening of water/wastewater investment opportunities.
• Conduct/support technical due diligence covering plant capacity, technology, asset condition, operating performance, CAPEX/OPEX, expansion potential, and regulatory compliance.
• Identify key technical risks, liabilities, improvement opportunities, and potential value creation.
• Provide technical inputs for financial modeling, valuation, feasibility studies, and investment recommendations.
• Support technical/commercial discussions and negotiations with potential sellers, investors, partners, consultants, and authorities.
3. Other accountabilities
• Guide and assist, if needed, junior members in performing their tasks to ensure consistent understanding and ability to perform tasks.
• Review, if needed, assignment completed by junior members to ensure integrity and accuracy of work conducted.
• Engage in regular meetings/ updates with team members, collect feedback, encourage and promote team spirit.
• Identify/ respond appropriately to high-complex issues, in order to ensure that each issue is efficiently dealt with or escalated to a superior level properly.
• Respond to instructions to undertake specific tasks to assist senior members in the completion of projects or assignments.
• Be accountable for other certain works as assigned from immediate superior level.
• Perform other duties assigned by Management related to Utilities BD and investment activities