Project Manager, Operations Manager, Program ​/ Project Manager

Project Manager – Water Mains Replacement Programme

This is a high profile Project Manager role, offering career development and a varied working environment. Are you a technically skilled Project Manager with experience of working on large infrastructure projects? If you are ready for a new challenge? Join Thames Water’s exceptional project teams as we invest more than ever in London and the Thames Valley to improve our critical infrastructure, tackle complex structural issues and drive excellence in our network.

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What you’ll be doing as a Project Manager

Manage several projects through their life cycle, including commercial management, risk management and associated reporting.
Establish and continuously promote a proactive health, safety, and environment culture across complex and high-risk Project portfolios and our service providers.
Develop and deliver an optimised project to achieve all regulatory, statutory, and internal outputs, deadlines, and targets.
Accountability throughout the project lifecycle, governance compliance, and effective engagement with internal and external stakeholders lead to the smooth transition of project outcomes into operational business.
Actively protecting, managing, and enhancing Thames Water’s reputation with external customers and stakeholders.
Development of project briefs, including supplementary information for the project's subsequent early contractor involvement phase.
Supporting the development and definition of the tender package(s), including the scope of work to support the Procurement team through each stage of the tender process, ensuring the demanding timescales are met.
Managing the project's ‘route to consent’ strategy, highlighting program and project risks relating to required consents, and considering any potential early works.
Managing and assuring the performance of contractors to deliver project outcomes on time, cost, and quality.

Location - Hybrid basis – 2 days a week at our Maple Lodge Office, WD3 9SQ
and site visits.

Hours- 36 hours Monday to Friday

The successful candidate will ideally drive and have access to transportation.

What you should bring to the role

To thrive in this role the essential criteria are:

A background in construction or utilities-based projects.
A technical education and engineering background.
Understand of the project’s life cycle and how to communicate it to both external and internal stakeholders effectively.
Be knowledgeable on the stage-gate project management process.
Have a strong background in delivering a programme of projects from beginning to end of completion.
Strong communication skills to be able to liaise with internal and external backgrounds.
Understanding of Health and Safety standards and legislation and governance.

Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring

Previous water or utilities experience.

What’s in it for you?

Competitive salary from £56,000 to £67,000 per annum.
26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
Performance-related pay plan directly linked to both company and individual performance measures and targets.
Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

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Who are we?

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.
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