Capital Senior Project Manager - Town Planning in Newport

We are looking for a dedicated and knowledgeable Town Planner to join the Capital Delivery Enabling Services team. The successful candidate will possess comprehensive knowledge and experience of the Town and Country Planning process, as well as associated consenting requirements, including SAB approval, and will be able to demonstrate the ability to work effectively within regulatory and project deadlines.

You will be responsible for providing expert technical advice and support as part of the Enabling Services team to ensure projects are delivered in line with programme requirements and associated regulatory commitments as part of the AMP8 business plan.

• Providing sound Town Planning and third-party consenting advice, support and guidance to internal stakeholders and Capital Delivery partners regarding the delivery of schemes as part of the Capital Delivery investment programme.
• Embedding Customer Led Success principles across all aspects of programme delivery, with a particular focus on ensuring planning and enabling activities contribute to earning the trust of our customers every day.
• Supporting our delivery frameworks in a fair and reasonable manner to enable the timely progression of projects.
• Building effective relationships, engaging stakeholders and helping to resolve issues that may put programme objectives at risk.
• Working effectively with internal engineering and delivery teams, the Engineering Consultancy Service (ECS) and framework partner teams to ensure our customers have confidence in our approach to enabling activities, particularly in relation to planning and consenting matters and challenges.
• Developing and maintaining effective working relationships with Local Authorities and other key external stakeholders involved in the Town Planning and third-party consenting processes (including SAB) to promote consistency and efficiency in planning and consenting activities.
• Building effective working relationships with Asset Planning, Water and Wastewater Asset teams, and operational teams to maintain alignment of strategy, delivery and business plan outcomes.
• Supporting the development and implementation of programme delivery strategies for enabling activities, ensuring consistency of approach across other Enabling Services functions.
• Managing the performance, training and development of direct reports in accordance with all Human Resources policies and procedures, including regular contact, one-to-one meetings and performance reviews.
• Undertaking any other duties required to meet the needs of the business.

• Water & Wastewater Assets
• Operations
• Asset Strategy
• wider Capital Delivery functions
• Communications
• Estates
• Legal & Developer Services
• Capital Delivery Partners
• Engineering Consultancy Service Partners
• Supply Chain
• Planning Consultants
• Regulators
• Local Authorities
• Politicians
• Infrastructure providers
• NRW & EA

The following are essential requirements for this role:

• Professional qualification or education to degree level, or equivalent, with extensive knowledge and experience of the water industry.

• Ideally 5 years+ knowledge, experience and understanding of the Town & Country Planning and major infrastructure consenting processes.
• Experience of working with a range of stakeholders, including Developers, Local Authorities and Environmental Regulators.
• Experience and understanding of the AMP investment processes, with particular focus on the National Environment Programme.

• Committed to putting our customers first every day, with a focus on delivering excellent outcomes and continuously improving relationships, outputs and processes.
• A broad range of project and people management skills.
• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary delivery teams to deliver major programmes of work and appropriate levels of service.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to develop positive working relationships across internal and external networks and act as a credible senior representative of the business.
• Ability to work effectively to challenging regulatory and project deadlines.

Proposed interview dates: week commencing: 17th August 2026 and 24th August 2026. Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business. For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject to all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer. Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

• Variable pay schemes (your salary will always stay the same, but depending on the performance of the company you could receive a yearly bonus)
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Reduction on gym memberships and high street shopping
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car-leasing scheme
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family

Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers every day, and about looking after our beautiful environment.

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas. To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision. This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them. The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve. In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.