Project Manager in Reading

Project Manager

Company: Thames Water Salary: £50,940 to £62,000 a year Hours: Full-time Location: Reading, RG1 8DB Job type: Permanent

As a Project Manager within our Developer Services Complex Customer Projects team, you’ll lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver a diverse range of water and wastewater projects valued from £150,000 to over £5 million. You’ll oversee projects from initial concept and design through to construction, commissioning and handover, ensuring safe, efficient and cost-effective delivery.

What you’ll be doing as a Project Manager

• Working closely with developers, customers and key stakeholders, you’ll play an important role in delivering essential infrastructure that supports growth across our region. You’ll ensure projects meet contractual requirements, CDM Regulations and industry standards, making a real difference to our customers, communities and the environment.
• Lead a diverse portfolio of projects across London and the Thames Valley, managing delivery from start to finish while ensuring projects meet agreed timescales, budgets and customer expectations.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships, working closely with customers, contractors and internal teams to maintain clear communication and proactively resolve issues.
• Drive excellent customer outcomes, managing expectations, preventing avoidable complaints and escalations, and supporting our DMeX performance targets.
• Monitor and report on project performance, leading regular reviews of budgets, progress, risks and milestones, escalating issues where required.
• Oversee design and construction activities, ensuring compliance with CDM Regulations, company procedures and industry standards throughout project delivery.
• Champion health, safety and project governance, carrying out regular site audits, promoting best practice and maintaining strong commercial controls through established stage-gate processes.

This is a Hybrid role based at our Reading office – Clearwater Court

What you should bring to the role

• Proven project management experience within construction, utilities or engineering, with a track record of delivering projects successfully.
• Good financial awareness, with experience managing budgets, monitoring costs and keeping projects on track.
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage priorities, overcome challenges and make confident decisions.
• A great communicator and team player, able to build positive relationships with customers, colleagues and stakeholders.
• A recognised project management qualification, such as APM PMQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent, with an understanding of NEC3/NEC4 contracts.
• Experience in project planning and reporting would be beneficial, alongside a relevant degree, HNC/HND or membership of a professional body.

What’s in it for you?

• Offering an annual salary between £50,940 and £62,000 depending on skills and experience
• 24 days holiday per year increasing to 28 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

Find out more about our benefits and perks (Please note different T&Cs apply if on secondment)

Who are we?

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

Working at Thames Water

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.

If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet.

Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.

We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we’re here to help and support.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.

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