Capital Project Manager (Welsh Water)

What you’ll be responsible for

Providing leadership and management of projects and being delivering projects to ensure completion within the statutory, regulatory and financial outputs of the Welsh Water Business Plan, demonstrating value for money investment on all projects by ensuring Welsh Water commercial and procurement processes are adhered to by all contractors. Interfacing with the operations and asset strategy teams to ensure that Welsh Water meets its serviceability targets and improves its asset investment management systems, processes and competencies to achieve a successful outcome at the next price review. This will include:
    

• Ensuring the business is able to meet its requirement for project delivery in line with the latest CDM regulations, to an agreed timeline and within approved target cost which will enable delivery of the Welsh Water investment programme.
• Assessing project needs, defining scope, tabling solutions, inputting into design activities, collating project target costs, procuring services, managing project construction & delivery and commissioning the projects for a defined programme of work.
• Effectively monitoring and tracking delivery and be able to take appropriate action in the event of programme slippage and contractor cost management under NEC conditions of contract.
• Ensuring implementation of Welsh Water contract, supply chain and commercial systems to ensure consistency.
• Complying with Welsh Water Health and Safety requirements, ensuring all projects comply with the latest CDM Regulations and helping to identify good/best practice construction techniques, and bad practice where applicable under the ‘near miss’ reporting procedure.
• Where appropriate implementing sustainable and innovative project solutions, working toward efficiency targets and reduction in Welsh Water’s carbon footprint.
• Fulfilling the role of Project Manager as defined under NEC.
• Being accountable for the delivery of special projects, involving above ground, below ground or both asset types, in a defined area.
• Ensuring investment needs are effectively scoped and optimal solutions are identified, inputting into design and managing the procurement processes, also managing the construction, delivery and commissioning of assets.
• Working collaboratively with operational and design team, Alliance partners, Suppliers and Welsh Water to fully understand asset performance concerns.
• Providing Project Management expertise for engineered solutions and providing support to operational colleagues and Alliance partners as and when needed.
• Ensuring  Welsh Water’s interests are protected at all times and that risks to the business are minimised by ensuring project risks are identified, understood, valued and correctly allocated and managing the early warning and risk reduction process.
• Instigating project peer reviews in order to ensure Welsh Water’s interests are represented during solution selection and any business risks are understood.
• Assisting with the resolution of issues between third parties and Welsh Water.
• Ensuring that all project handover documentation and procedures are complete before issue of Final Certificates, managing the post‐project appraisal process and undertaking appropriate ‘root cause ‘analysis upon scheme completion in order to ensure that there is a continuous improvement process applied.

Who you’ll work with

Internal

•    Operations, Asset Strategy, Finance, Estates, Streetworks, Procurement, Health & Safety and Commercial teams
•    Day to day liaison with operational staff regarding planning and scheduling
•    Design Team
•    All levels of management within Welsh Water

External

•    Regulators NRW/Ofwat/DWI/CCW
•    Local authority highway and planning departments
•    Other leading companies within the water sector

About you

Knowledge, Skills & Experience
 

• Professional Qualification and Education to Degree level or Equivalent
• Project management qualification
• Extensive experience of project management, leading a large team or similar in the delivery of high value capital solutions    
• Experience and understanding of Health and Safety Legislation, including CDM Regulations
• A wide range of project delivery ability and management skills are required, combined with strong commercial awareness in the planning, design and construction of large (up to £2.0m) projects    
• Decision making and awareness of wider business issues, corporate policies and the ability to deliver cost effective solutions within target timescales    
• High level analytical skills to ensure effective scoping, optioneering and delivery of effective solutions to operational problems
• The ability to work to tight regulatory and project deadlines

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

 
•             Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
•             Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
•             Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
•             Free Mortgage Brokering Services 
•             Enhanced family friendly policies
•             Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
•             Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
•             Cycle to work scheme
•             Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
•             Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
•             Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
•             An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
•             Many more can be found here!  

 
 
Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment
 
 
Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.
 
Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business. For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.
 

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision.  This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them.  The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.
 

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. 
 

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.
 

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.