Senior Project Manager

• Right across infrastructure theres a requirement to not only maintain but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage youre at in your career with us youll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life while being safety first and client and customer centric in a friendly fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

  Where will you be working

  We help our clients safeguard the water supply improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. Were problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

  This role will be within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.

  Want to be a part of it

  What will you be doing

  As our Senior Project Manager youll take strategic responsibility for a portfolio of complex capital projects with a combined value exceeding 50m delivered across both Clean Water and Wastewater sectors within the Southern Water Framework. Youll provide leadership oversight and direction to a team of Project Managers ensuring safe efficient rightfirsttime delivery in line with all governance assurance contractual and regulatory requirements.

  Well need you tooperate across the full project lifecycle providing senior-level control and assurance over multiple concurrent projects. This includes programme leadership risk and change management commercial governance and ensuring that each project team is supported developed and aligned to delivery expectations.

  A key part of the role is acting as the primary escalation point for Southern Water ensuring issues are resolved promptly decisions are made with clarity and communication remains consistent across all stakeholders. Youll build strong relationships with client leadership operational teams subcontractors designers local authorities landowners and other third parties.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and oversee a portfolio of capital projects totalling 50m ensuring delivery to scope budget programme and quality expectations.
  • Provide leadership coaching and development to Project Managers supporting their growth capability and performance.
  • Act as the senior escalation point for the client resolving issues managing risks and ensuring transparent communication.
  • Drive programme performance overseeing schedules dependencies resource planning and delivery sequencing across multiple projects.
  • Ensure robust governance and assurance including stage gate compliance technical reviews buildability assessments and design approvals.
  • Oversee NEC contract administration at a portfolio level ensuring consistent management of Early Warnings Compensation Events and programme updates.
  • Champion safety quality and operational excellence ensuring high standards are maintained across all project teams.
  • Lead stakeholder engagement representing the delivery organisation at senior client forums and ensuring alignment across all parties.
  • Drive commercial performance including forecasting cost reporting financial governance margin delivery and portfolio-level budget control.
  • Promote continuous improvement knowledge sharing and collaborative working across the wider delivery team.

  What Youll Bring

  • Do you have extensive experience delivering capital projects within infrastructure or regulated environments ideally water sector
  • Have you got proven leadership of multiple concurrent projects or programmes ideally at 20m50m scale
  • Do you have a strong background in complex civils pipelines rising mains trunk mains tunnelling or similar infrastructure
  • Have you got experience managing multidisciplinary design teams subcontractors and senior client relationships
  • Do you have a deep understanding of project governance assurance processes and NEC contract mechanisms
  • Are you someone who has strong commercial acumen with experience overseeing budgets forecasting and financial performance
  • Are you able to lead mentor and develop Project Managers and wider delivery teams
  • Do you have a formal project management qualification (APM PMQ PRINCE2) or equivalent experience
  • Do you hold a full UK driving licence

  Whats in it for you

  We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work some of which include;

  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Online GP service 24 hours a day 365 days a year
  • Employee assistance programme
  • My Rewards portal access to 1000s of retail discounts
  • Life assurance
  • Cycle to work salary finance and give as you earn schemes
  • Enhanced maternity paternity leave and adoption leave
  • Reward and recognition scheme
  • Recommend a friend get rewarded for introducing people to us!

  In addition this role offers;

  • Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
  • My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
  • Health Care Cash Plan giving you and your family the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
  • Private Healthcare - family cover
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

  About us

  We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work attracting diverse and talented people who join us and make a difference. Were one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

  Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind to ensure your aspirations and ways of working align with ours.

  • Were responsible and go further for our people clients communities and the planet
  • Were open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
  • Were together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
  • Were ambitious and embrace opportunity to lead essential infrastructure services for life

  Whether youre a trainee apprentice or graduate or progressing through your career our people benefit from industry recognised programmes training and development.

  Its an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

  Please note: Occasionally job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

  For certain roles successful candidates will be subject to 3^rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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