Project Managers

Full Time 37 hours

Permanent

Salary – Up to £55,000 (Dependent on experience) + Excellent Benefits

Location – Lowestoft/Suffolk/Homeworking

About the role

We have a number of great opportunities for a Project Managers to join our Capital Delivery team. You’ll have the accountability for various Capital Projects, subject to your experience, with typical project values ranging from £500k to £20m and will be responsible for the supporting delivery team, ensuring alignment to realise the project’s outputs within regulatory timescales while also maximising any broader business benefits.

You’ll own and lead projects through concept, definition, delivery and handover. You’ll need to consider planning optimisation and ongoing management and maintenance of the project plans throughout the lifecycle. We’re looking for you to drive a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, demonstrating delivery of efficiency and utilisation of industry leading best practice. You’ll have a continual focus on achieving the relevant business outcome to best customer value. You will be required to work closely with our Programme Management Office and comply with investment procedures, project governance, benefits tracking, proactive risk management, and change management.

We’re looking for you to deliver unrivalled customer experience to both internal and external customers, demonstrating effective measurement, monitoring, and reporting. You’ll be managing stakeholder relationships while ensuring stakeholders are well-informed and aligned to the project, broader programme and NWL’s business outcomes, while in turn working to enhance NWL’s reputation in the area. You’ll work closely with stakeholders from across the business, from our Procurement team to assist you in securing necessary contractors & suppliers, to our front-line operations teams who will be your main internal customer.

Safety in construction is imperative, you’ll ensure your team and supply partner activities align to company quality standards, satisfying relevant legislative and regulatory requirements to ensure everyone goes home safe every day. You’ll also work closely with our internal Engineering team ensuring projects are designed for success and deliverable, along with constant application of Construction Design Management regulations.

About you

We’re looking for the successful candidate to have the potential to or proven experience of working in Portfolio, Programme and Project Management environment and ideally having a desire or experience of leadership of internal and external multi-disciplinary teams delivering important capital investment projects, ideally in a construction environment.

You’ll also have proven experience of (or a drive to learn) contract management along with procurement of services and applying appropriate engineering contracts for efficient delivery. You’ll also need to understand project governance and forecasting and will thrive on driving innovation and have a passion for sustainable environmental outcomes.

You’ll have a desire to develop or have proven experience of industry standard project management techniques, ideally holding or working towards a project management qualification. You’ll be able to demonstrate sound and extensive engineering, project management delivery and will be willing to support the achievement of industry leading project management.

We’re looking for you to show the potential or have the proven ability to engage and communicate persuasively with a broad range of stakeholders across a variety of business levels, so strong influencing ability within the programme and project environment is needed. You will be able to establish credibility quickly.

You’ll also be working towards or have a knowledge of commercial assurance, engineering contract management and different contract forms that can be used, along with an in-depth knowledge of CDM and site supervision requirements.

We’re looking for you to ideally come from an Engineering/Construction/Oil & Gas or Utilities background, but we’re open to candidates from other backgrounds that can bring new ways of working and thinking to our business too. Ideally you will be able to demonstrate a good level of understanding of critical infrastructure and how it supports our business outcomes.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups, as we believe and strive for community representation within all our teams, structures and organisation.

About Our Assets Plans

We are preparing for our £4.5 billion investment programme that will run from 2025 to 2030, to make sure we increase the resilience of our water and wastewater services while enhancing and protecting our environment.

Our investment programme will see more than 50 new roles join our Assets directorate to enhance and support our teams in tackling key industry challenges including population growth and the impact of climate change on our services.

With over 4.5 million customers across the north east, Essex and Suffolk, now is a key time to make sure we are ready rise to these challenges by building a team of leading talent to support us in delivering a world-class infrastructure programme for our customers and our communities.

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.