Project Manager (Infra) in Peterborough

The Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) project involves planning, design, and construction of ~320 km of new large-diameter, clean water interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure across Anglian Water’s region. The SPA Alliance also manages future interconnector pipelines, a further 260 km of strategic interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure. The role of Project Manager is a true Alliance role focused on delivery of projects and programmes. The PM manages a team and retains overall responsibility for project delivery, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget and in line with quality, environmental, and customer requirements, while complying with Governance and processes (Project Management, Health and Safety, Commercial, Risk, Value and Opportunity). The PM oversees the infrastructure element of the multimillion‑pound project and is responsible for the project throughout its full life cycle, utilising the team to manage conflicting needs, deploy resources and build positive relationships with the client to achieve win‑win outcomes. The role is hybrid, requiring 3 days per week in the Peterborough office with site visits across the Grafham to Rede section.

Responsibilities

• Create a high-performing team environment with Construction Managers, Site Managers, Site Engineers, Design Leads, Construction Planners, Quantity Surveyors, Enabling Coordinators and wider project team.
• Translate programme-level strategy into actionable outcomes and ensure team members are informed of project requirements.
• Ensure project team resources are fully utilised and performance aligns with company metrics, addressing performance issues as they arise.
• Develop collaborative working relationships with Anglian Water stakeholders and supply chain partners.
• Lead the Enabling phase and infra elements of the delivery phase, keeping projects on track to agreed cost, time, and quality parameters, and mitigate arising issues appropriately.
• Manage the full project lifecycle from Enabling, construction, handover, formal sign‑off, and post‑handover warranty issues.
• Comply with governance at all levels and support SPM at governance boards to obtain approvals; deputise for SPMs when necessary.
• Work closely with the Commercial team to maintain accurate cost forecasts and report or mitigate cost variances.
• Maintain industry knowledge and discuss latest innovations with relevant peers.
• Collaborate with partner companies across different disciplines, implementing proven ways of working and leveraging experience.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement in Health & Safety, ensuring consistent H&S standards are maintained.
• Ensure completion of a full induction to H&S in accordance with company policies, procedures, standards and guidance.

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Experience delivering design‑and‑build large construction projects.
• Collaborative leader who creates a project culture delivering exemplary safety, environmental and quality performance.
• Customer & investor outcome delivery.
• Production‑driven delivery approach, embedding production processes and continuous improvement.
• Ability to produce project execution plans and achieve efficiencies through production, digital transformation, and other initiatives.
• Implementation of robust project controls and commercial management.
• Development of people, behaviours and principles for transformational work.
• High‑quality delivery of key milestones at each project stage.
• Strong team‑working relationships.
• Proven ability to manage multi‑disciplined work and align with SPA strategies in logistics, production, design, assembly, SHEQ, reporting and digital creation.
• Deliver design‑and‑build construction products to time, cost, quality, carbon, HSE targets in line with customer and owner outcomes.
• Experience leading and delivering large‑scale water infrastructure or large‑scale linear projects, unifying multi‑contractor, multi‑disciplined teams.
• Ability to outperform against a tight budget through effective programme development, risk and opportunity management, production and innovation.
• Stakeholder management experience with customers, clients, site operators, landowners, utility companies and statutory authorities.
• Agile decision‑making by reviewing information and consulting with relevant parties.

Qualifications

• Degree in Civil / MEICA / Construction Management.
• Full UK driving licence.

Seniority Level Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type Full‑time

Job Function Project Management and Information Technology

Industry Civil Engineering