Senior 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
As the Senior Project Manager within our Thames Valley non-infrastructure programme delivery department, you will be the single point of accountability for the delivery of a portfolio of projects.

This will be achieved by overseeing a multi-discipline project team throughout the project cycles and managing and assuring the performance of contractors to deliver project outcomes to time cost and quality. This will involve influencing high level internal and external stakeholders whilst focussing on continuous improvement of the health and safety and environmental agendas to ensure enhanced customer satisfaction and commercial performance.

We're looking for you to:

• Have extensive project management experience with a track record of successfully delivering multiple and complex engineering infrastructure projects or programmes of up to £30m in value, ideally within a client organisation
• Have detailed knowledge and experience of managing, driving and optimising the delivery process, with a proven capability in facilitating complex investment decisions and proactively managing budget and risk, ideally within a regulated environment
• Be a self-starting, resilient and tenacious project manager, with excellent communication skills, known for positively engaging project stakeholders and having the ability to mobilise and guide a project team across multi-disciplined teams
• Be educated to degree level in engineering or other relevant degree and have chartered status
• Ideally - have project management qualification or post-graduate business qualification

What's in it for you!
Lift the lid of the UK water industry and you might be surprised with what you find - we are changing like never before!

In the drive to deliver more environmental sustainability, we are seeking to become one of the biggest producers of green energy in the UK, and you will be working on some of the most complex water assets in the country.

Our competitive salary and package include:

• A competitive bonus
• Car allowance
• Private healthcare
• Excellent contributory pension
• 26 days holiday (pro rata)
• Two days paid volunteer leave a year
• Wider benefits scheme which includes an annual pay review, season ticket loans and loyalty awards for continuous service plus discounts at a wide range of retailers via Benefits on Taps
• Referral scheme, where you can receive £750 for helping someone get a permanent position within the company

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.

You can find out more in our working for us section of our website.