Senior Utility Planning, Commercial & Performance Expert
--Engineering Systems Group & Investment--
We are seeking a senior water and wastewater utility professional with strong experience in strategic planning, CAPEX and OPEX planning, commercial assessment, investment appraisal, and performance management.
The role requires the ability to evaluate investment needs, challenge business cases, assess costs and benefits, monitor utility performance, and translate technical and operational information into practical management recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Develop utility strategic & investment plans
- Review CAPEX & OPEX plans and budgets
- Assess business cases & lifecycle costs
- Evaluate investment priorities & alternatives
- Review service costs & commercial performance
- Monitor KPIs & utility performance
- Benchmark costs & operating performance
Must Have
- Senior water & wastewater experience
- Strategic & investment planning expertise
- CAPEX & OPEX planning experience
- Strong commercial & financial understanding
- Utility performance management experience
- Strong analytical & decision-making skills
- Strong operational understanding
Nice to have
- GCC utility experience
- Regulatory reporting experience
- Tariff & cost recovery knowledge
- Bulk water commercial experience
- NPV & lifecycle costing expertise
- Benchmarking experience
- Benchmarking experience
Who should apply
- Candidates currently based in Egypt only.
- Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in the water and wastewater sector.
- Direct employment experience within a water and wastewater company, holding company, public utility or owner/operator organisation is required.
- Candidates whose experience is mainly consultancy or design-office work, without substantial utility-side responsibility, are not the target profile for these positions.
- Previous responsibility for teams, budgets, assets, projects, operations or company-wide performance is strongly preferred.
- Previous work in Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain or other GCC markets is an advantage, but not mandatory.
- Good working English and the ability to participate in senior client meetings, review evidence and prepare clear written findings are required.
Experience we are looking for
- Drinking water production and treatment plants, wastewater treatment plants and pumping stations.
- Water transmission and distribution networks, sewerage networks and treated effluent / reuse systems.
- Operations and maintenance, preventive and corrective maintenance, plant and network reliability and service continuity.
- Asset condition, criticality, rehabilitation, replacement and lifecycle planning.
- NRW, leakage, energy use, pump efficiency and operational performance improvement.
- Emergency preparedness, resilience, operational risk and continuity planning.
- Technical KPIs, performance reporting and management of operational data.
- Contractor management, technical procurement, testing, commissioning, handover and close-out.
- Identification and justification of CAPEX needs arising from asset condition, capacity, service or compliance requirements.
- This person should be comfortable walking into an operating company, reviewing plant and network information, speaking with operations teams and management, and forming an independent view on whether the assets, maintenance arrangements and investment needs are technically sound.