Graduate Project Manager (Water Services North)

Overview

Graduate Project Manager (North) — Water Services | Location: Birmingham, Chester and Swansea | Contract Type: Full Time Permanent | Closing Date: 31/03/2026

Binnies, an RSK Group company, is recruiting a Graduate Project Manager to join their Northern Water Services team based in Birmingham, Chester and Leeds. Our team provides clients in the UK water sector with professional services, typically ranging from feasibility studies and outline design to design for construction and site supervision. We support our client’s projects which typically involve upgrades or new build works to their assets such as pipe networks, reservoirs, water treatment works and sewerage treatment works.

Responsibilities

• Typically, you will assist and support the Project Manager on multi-disciplinary projects
• Plan, execute, monitor and control projects in terms of scope, time, cost, quality, resource, communications, risk, procurement and stakeholder management
• Contract management, predominantly under the NEC suite of contracts
• Deliver projects to the As-Sold financial metrics or better
• Manage the overall coordination of the project team
• Balance the needs of multiple projects
• Organise professional client meetings, taking and distributing minutes and following up on actions
• Liaise with internal and external clients to develop relationships across the business
• Create and review proposals and costings for new projects
• Assess the technical and commercial risk of projects during the sales process

As a graduate, appropriate support and development opportunities will be given to enable you to undertake your role. We will assign a buddy to you on joining who will help you to navigate your new role.

Attributes

• Motivated to manage impactful water and environmental projects
• Interest in working towards a professional qualification in Project Management
• Hold a degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) discipline or a degree in a different discipline with strong STEM A-levels
• Be driven to develop and improve your technical skills and advance your career
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Working knowledge of Microsoft programmes such as Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Ability to work under time pressure and balance multiple priorities

Why Join Us

Would you like to work in a business where you feel empowered to grow? Where there is no place for criticism or discrimination? A place where people are mindful and respectful? If so, then Binnies is the place for you. We have a strong ‘ENGAGED’ culture that runs through everything we do. Evolved over 100 years, we have a culture of caring, where our employee’s wellbeing and work-life balance are priorities, in fact we have industry leading flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We pride ourselves on providing an inclusive working environment, where a diverse workforce is supported to grow and develop.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working
• Hybrid working
• Flexible benefits e.g. buy annual leave, varying pension contributions, options for private healthcare