Overview
This role will focus on managing multidisciplinary water sector projects across the full project lifecycle, supporting delivery for major UK water company clients during AMP8. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering projects across areas such as water and wastewater treatment, storm overflows, and wider infrastructure programmes.
We work on a vast range of design projects covering, for example:
- Water treatment
- Water distribution and storage
- Storm Overflow
- SuDS
- Wastewater drainage and recycling
- Desalination
Key Responsibilities
- Leading the delivery of projects to time, cost, and quality, ensuring compliance with business management systems
- Managing multidisciplinary teams, coordinating technical specialists across design and delivery stages
- Acting as a key client interface, building strong and trusted relationships
- Identifying, managing, and mitigating project risks and opportunities
- Overseeing commercial and contractual aspects including forecasting, programme control, and reporting
- Supporting team development, providing guidance and mentoring to junior staff
Qualifications
- Degree-qualified in engineering or a related discipline
- Demonstrable project management experience delivering infrastructure projects in the water sector
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams across project lifecycle stages
- Strong client‑facing and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to manage programme, cost, and water and wastewater engineering risks to achieve successful project outcomes
- Proven ability to work independently and contribute to project success while guiding others
Desirable
- Chartered Engineer or working towards chartership
- APM PMQ / MAPM or equivalent
- Experience in AMP frameworks or UK water utilities programmes
- Knowledge of CDM regulations and design management
- Experience contributing to bids and proposals
Benefits
- Financial wellbeing: We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
- Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long‑term illness or injury.
- Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
- Annual bonus schemes linked to business and personal performance.
- Employee ownership model – no external investors, employees with a stake and a voice in our business.
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
- Health cash plan to support everyday health costs and treatments.
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
- Comprehensive wellbeing programme, including support for you and your family.
- Holiday entitlement: a minimum of 33‑35 days each year, inclusive of public holidays; increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service; ability to buy or sell leave through flexible benefits programme.
- Enhanced family and carers leave: 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, two weeks paid paternity/partner leave; shared parental leave matches maternity leave (up to 24 weeks at full pay); up to five additional days leave for significant caring responsibilities.
- Primary annual professional institution subscription.
- Opportunities for mentoring, formal training and self‑development.
- Employee discounts and saving schemes.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.
