Engineering Delivery Manager

This is an exceptional opportunity for someone with engineering project management experience to join a highly collaborative and supportive team within our Infrastructure Programme Team.

In this role, you’ll lead the delivery of a varied portfolio of DMC‑funded projects, providing MEICA engineering and construction solutions across Water and Waste networks—both above and below ground—as well as at water and wastewater production sites.

You’ll play a key role in shaping innovative, cost‑effective strategies that drive continuous improvement across our programmes. This includes influencing cultural change, boosting productivity, embedding commercial focus, and championing our corporate values and behaviours.

If you’re looking to make a real impact, work on meaningful infrastructure projects, and develop your career within a forward‑thinking engineering environment, this role offers the perfect platform.

We are seeking a commercially astute and motivated person to provide MEICA construction solutions to the process and network functions across Thames Water, on both Clean and Wastewater Assets. You will ensure that the health and safety requirements, quality standards, contractual specifications, commercial objectives, and program deadlines are met promptly.

• Being an integral part of the growing Infrastructure programme team.
• Managing framework suppliers and subcontractor supply chain involved in the delivery of Infrastructure network construction activities.
• Being directly responsible for resource management and the training, development, and support of directly managed Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers.
• Providing estimates, programming, and planning support to the wider team.
• Ensuring the delivery of all construction projects on the program with 100% compliance with client specifications.
• Managing the client’s site requirements, ensuring minimal impact on the operational functionality of the site.
• Delivering all projects within legislative, CDM and regulatory requirements, including Health & Safety, Environmental and HR.

The base location for this role will be in Lane End. But it will require travel across the whole of the Thames water network when required.

36 hours a week, Monday to Friday.

• Have gained experience within a commercial and technical role and preferably educated to degree/HND level in engineering and/or business administration, ideally with post‑qualification experience.
• An understanding of civil engineering works, contract law, planning, estimating and tendering is required.
• Have a proven track record of project management in an engineering environment with a good working knowledge of mechanical, Civil, ICA systems, along with Street work and below ground asset.
• Provide management of the procurement process, framework suppliers and the sub‑contractor supply chain, involved in the delivery of all construction‑based activities.
• Be responsible for resource management, and for the training, development, and support of directly managed staff.
• Provide estimating, programming, and planning support to the wider team.
• Ensure the delivery of all streams of the project meets targets with 100% compliance with client specifications.
• Manage the client’s requirements, ensuring minimal impact on the operational functionality of the Network and sites.
• To deliver all projects within legislative, CDM and regulatory requirements, including Health & Safety, Environmental, Street work, Local authorities and HR requirements.
• Manage up to 10 staff, all stakeholder key interfaces, internal and external.

• Offering up to £66,000 per annum, depending on experience and skills.
• Car Allowance of £4,500 per annum.
• Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12%
  -2x employee contribution.
• Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
• Wider benefits scheme, including our benefits…