Project Manager - Thames Region
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My client is working closely with long established clients to deliver a range of water infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects. These works are key to ensuring sustainable, high-quality services for communities across the Thames region.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Project Manager to take overall responsibility for the successful delivery of allocated multidisciplinary projects. You will lead projects from conception through to completion, ensuring safe and efficient execution within agreed timescales, budgets, and quality standards. These projects will be located across the Thames Water region.
This role requires strong leadership, technical knowledge, and commercial awareness, alongside the ability to manage internal teams, external consultants, and key customer relationships. You will be expected to deliver projects in line with core company values, driving service excellence and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
* Oversee delivery of projects across design, engineering, construction, handover, and commercial phases
* Ensure projects meet scope, programme, budget, quality, and customer satisfaction requirements
* Implement risk and value engineering processes, identifying risks and cost-saving opportunities
* Lead, motivate, and support internal staff, consultants, and contractors
* Ensure full compliance with health, safety, environmental, and quality standards
* Provide project planning advice, recommendations, and progress updates to customers and stakeholders
* Review and challenge budgets, forecasts, and financial reporting to ensure deliverable approaches
* Develop and maintain strong customer relationships, regularly reviewing performance
* Implement management systems and procedures, ensuring compliance with statutory and legal requirements
* Drive continuous improvement, service excellence, and best practice across projects
* Manage project costs, ensuring accurate expenditure tracking and resource allocation
* Review and approve management plans, health and xsabvtc safety plans, and work package plans
* Support senior management with business planning, performance reviews, and bid development
* Promote collaborative supplier relationships, monitoring and improving performance
* Ensure all M&E services and installations are designed, built, and certified to required standards
* Mentor and motivate project staff, ensuring performance issues are addressed and development supported
Skills, Experience and Qualifications
You will be an experienced "Water" Project Manager with a proven track record in delivering Water Treatment projects.
You will bring:
* Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to motivate teams to achieve high standar...
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