Engineering Project Manager

Who are we?

Thames Water is the UK's largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km's of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.

What you will be doing:

This key role will be responsible for directing a project team in the delivery of a complex programme of projects, initially within the wastewater treatment area of the business.

You will guide, develop, and build a multi-disciplined team necessary to ensure the success of the projects or programmes you will be responsible for. You will be responsible for project delivery to time, cost, and quality commitments whilst ensuring compliance with legislation.

You will closely and collaboratively work with the technical and commercial teams and all project stakeholders to ensure that project timescales and objectives are met. You will be responsible for driving project-wide continuous improvement and delivering against stretching targets.

Owning the management of risk issues and change in a fully transparent manner through effective reporting and escalation is critical to this role. Accuracy and focus on "no surprises" are vital to success, as is anticipation and early mitigation of risk.

We're looking for you to have the following:

• An engineering or other relevant degree (or equivalent).
• Experience in delivering engineering infrastructure projects or programmes up to £10m and experience in making investment decisions.
• Good or detailed knowledge and experience of delivering complex projects with a regulated infrastructure environment ideally, but not necessarily, in the water industry.
• Experience in delivering projects through full planning and environmental impact assessment is desirable.
• A track record of managing successful relevant activities. For example, capital engineering infrastructure projects
• You will be self-assured in demonstrating your capability with risk-based and analytical decision making.
• Great management skills across multi-disciplined teams as well as excellent communication skills. Particularly in the presentation of the business case and project strategies at a level necessary to satisfy appropriate governance.
• Be 'self-starting', resilient and tenacious under pressure, and with a desire to successfully deliver projects to time, cost and quality.
• Be a great team player with the ability to work collaborative in a stimulating project environment, who is fully adept at using the appropriate business IT systems

What's in it for you?

Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with length of service and a wider benefits scheme.
We're proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles we are moving to a hybrid approach where we will provide options around working from our offices, our operational sites and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you'll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and unparalleled benefits. We're also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion and Disability Confident Leader and we are a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.

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