Senior Project Manager - Water

We are recruiting for a Senior Project Manager to join our UK Climate Adaptation team, managing a portfolio of projects across water, civil engineering and environment. As part of our Programme and Project Management team, you’ll oversee delivery from mobilisation through to close-out; managing scope, programme, cost, risk and quality to achieve measurable client outcomes. With your energy, agility and a keen eye for detail, you’ll coordinate multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to deliver transformational results for multiple clients every day. Our team delivers flood defence and adaptation schemes and supports clients to protect and enhance environmental outcomes across England.

As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll manage Water, Civil Engineering and Environment projects with a strong focus on NEC4 contracts, providing contractual advice and leading contract administration through the appraisal phase. You’ll work closely with clients, contractors, consultants and third parties to maintain robust governance and ensure safe, compliant delivery.

Role accountabilities:

• Project manage a range of civil engineering, water and environment projects using the NEC4 Professional Service Contract (PSC) and/or the Engineering and Construction Short Contract (ESCS) including contract administration in accordance with the role of the Service/Project Manager on several NEC contracts.
• Work collaboratively with all stakeholders; clients, contractors, consultants and third-party stakeholders on each project to ensure delivery is on time, within budget and to a high quality and in accordance with the NEC contract you will be administering.
• Provide high level advice and support to resolve issues during appraisal, ensuring that decisions are made on sound technical grounds in line with best practice and required standards and timeframes.
• Monitor progress of work, identify risks in the delivery of priorities and implement timely resolution of issues, to ensure appropriate reallocation of time, finance and effort and enhancement of the service.
• Provide good quality management reporting on service delivery, to support the planning of operational work, inform business decisions and provide a sound basis from which to communicate with and influence internal / external partners.
• Lead or support project teams to achieve well planned and managed integrated solutions that progress effective change and improvement in the organisation and support the best environmental outcomes.
• Provide effective leadership to health, safety and wellbeing matters by actively promoting health & safety awareness and ensuring the provision of safe working practices.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience of project management and PSC contract management to enable successful delivery of larger-scale, complex and demanding projects according to agreed outcomes.
• Civil Engineering, Water, Environment, Infrastructure project experience.
• Track record of leading integrated and multi-disciplinary project management teams.
• Membership of: Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Association of Project Managers (APM) or Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM).
• Desired: Flood Risk Management experience and/or a background within Civil Engineering.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.