Design, Proposals & Projects Manager

Company Description

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Veolia's Water Technology Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy.

Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

The Design, Proposals & Projects Manager will set the strategy for, and lead multi-disciplinary Design-Proposals and Project teams, delivering water purification projects from concept to completion across a broad range of UK customers and industries and within operational frameworks and quality management systems.

The Design and Proposals team develop water purification proposals from scope appraisal including tender evaluations, system design, selection and sizing of equipment and resources, estimating and proposal writing.

The project management and delivery team delivers turnkey projects through procurement activity, sub-contractor management and supervision, system commissioning and handover to customer operations and the Purite service team.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and manage the Purite Design-Proposals and Project delivery teams
• Ensure compliance with all VEOLIA Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental Policies
• Ensure a profitable Engineering P&L is sustained and enhanced.
• Delivery of all aspects of project delivery to time, quality and budget targets
• Provide short, medium and long term financial planning.
• Owner-responsibility of Purite engineering processes
• Support and guide BDM’s and D&P engineers to ensure customer scope requirements are understood and Purite response is matching, achievable, and adds value.
• Assist with Design and Proposals activity as/when required.
• Provide clear project design detail guidance to D&P engineers to meet scope requirements, consistent with appropriate engineering standards.
• Lead contract evaluation and negotiation with Legal assistance.
• Advocate to all stakeholders to provide value-added, differential advantage in proposals and products focusing on:
  • Standards and contract compliance
  • How we can decrease total cost of operation
  • Improve operating efficiency
  • Minimise Environmental, Health and Safety issues
  • Enhance customer competitive advantage
• Actively lead / participate in peer reviews of proposals prior to submission according to Purite Engineering processes.
• Upon receipt of orders, ensure Project Kick off meetings are held with all stakeholders and provide technical guidance and ownership during these meetings
• Ensure all projects have a plan to include a Service contract
• Identify and drive through the capture of success criteria and follow up with written case studies.
• Consolidate project feedback to procurement, production, and technical Development so efficiencies and product improvements can be made.
• Provide on and off site support to BDM’s to assist with sales process and after sales troubleshooting as/when required.
• Actively participate in Operations and management meetings
• Assist with ISO audits and lead Engineering team activity
• Promote training and personnel development of teams

• Ideally degree qualified in Chemical or Process engineering with knowledge of water chemistry and fluid dynamics.
• Demonstrated capability to deliver strategic projects, including contract management
• Experienced team leader, preferably of a multi-discipline team.
• Familiar with current HSE legislation and best practices, incl. CDM standards.
• A detailed understanding of process design and project management requirements.
• Excellent communication skills required
• Proven planning, organizational and implementation skills ideally involving cross functional networking

The post holder must hold a full UK driving licence and must be able to travel and stay overnight as required