Project Manager

Project Manager – Water & Wastewater Capital Delivery

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our Water and Wastewater Capital Delivery team. You will play a key role in the successful delivery of our trunk main programme, supporting large-scale infrastructure projects designed to enhance long-term network resilience and protect the environment.

This is a critical leadership position responsible for the end-to-end delivery of trunk main works, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality outcomes across all stages of the project lifecycle.

Company Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year

Employee assistance programme

My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts

Life assurance

Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes

Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave

Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from

Private health care - single cover

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Discretionary bonus scheme

Key Responsibilities

As Project Manager, you will take full ownership of trunk main delivery projects, ensuring performance against time, cost, quality, and safety objectives. You will coordinate across multi-disciplinary teams including design, planning, construction, commercial, commissioning, and stakeholder management functions.

Your responsibilities will include

Lead end-to-end delivery of trunk main projects

Manage design, planning, construction, permitting, traffic management and commissioning

Ensure delivery against time, cost, quality and safety targets

Establish project governance and maintain programme baselines

Drive risk, opportunity and change control

Lead CDM compliance and Principal Contractor duties

Oversee RAMS, permits, safe systems of work and behavioural safety

Manage environmental compliance, pressure testing, chlorination, quality assurance and handover

Coordinate stakeholders: highways authorities, councils, landowners, businesses and residents

Support MEICA and civils design development, ensuring constructability and clash management

Manage integrated programmes across design, permitting, procurement, construction and commissioning

Oversee budgets, forecasting, subcontractor performance and commercial controls

About You

You will be an experienced Project Manager within the water, wastewater, utilities, or civil infrastructure sectors, with a strong track record of delivering large capital projects. You will be confident managing complex programmes with multiple interfaces and possess strong leadership, communication, and commercial skills.

Experience in trunk mains, pipeline delivery, or water infrastructure projects is highly desirable, along with knowledge of commissioning activities and CDM regulations.

This is an opportunity to take a leading role in delivering essential water infrastructure that makes a genuine long-term impact on communities and the environment. You’ll be joining a collaborative, forward-thinking team committed to safe, high-quality, and sustainable project delivery.

If you’re motivated by complex engineering challenges, enjoy working across multi-disciplinary teams, and want to contribute to major capital programmes within the water sector, we’d be keen to hear from you.