Capital Senior Project Manager

What you’ll be responsible for

Lead the delivery of projects spanning a full range of value and complexity (inclusive of >£10M projects), involving multidisciplinary teams and a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. Provide strategic direction, commercial leadership, and full accountability for outcomes across the project lifecycle.

Be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of projects, ensuring completion in line with all statutory, regulatory, and financial outputs of the business plan, including demonstratable value for money and aligning with asset strategy objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Champion a best‑in‑class approach to Health, Safety, Wellbeing and Environmental Stewardship across all projects, ensuring full compliance with the latest CDM Regulations and leading a proactive, safe working culture for colleagues, partners and the public.
• Provide leadership across programmes of work, ensuring effective planning, coordination, and delivery across multidisciplinary teams, and aligning projects with wider business and asset strategies.
• Fulfil the role of NEC Project Manager on complex projects, leading commercial strategy whilst ensuring high-quality contract administration, and driving timely execution of all contractual obligations ensuring collaboration, trust, risk management and programme acceptance.
• Work closely with Commercial teams to ensure accurate forecasting, disciplined budget management, and optimisation of value for money across projects, with full accountability for financial performance.
• Leading the supply chain in a fair and collaborative, building trusted relationships with key stakeholders, including regulators, partners, and senior internal teams to resolve complex issues that may impact delivery.
• Meet all standby obligations for the role, ensuring appropriate out‑of‑hours availability and management during emergency situations to safeguard service continuity.

Good to know

• The successful candidate will be required to participate in a standby rota
• Car allowance is also offered.

For more information on the role please contact Christopher.Jones4@dwrcymru.com

Who you’ll work with

Internal

• Dam Safety, Operations, Water Resources, Production, Assets, Finance, Estates, Streetworks, Procurement, Health & Safety and Commercial
• Heads of Service / Senior Management

External

• Major Framework and Design & Build Contractors
• Customers
• Private Landowners
• All Reservoir Panel Engineers
• Regulators NRW / OFWAT / DWI / CCW
• Local Authorities & other leading companies within the utility sector

About you

Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience 

Qualifications

1. Degree in Engineering or related discipline
2. Professional Project Management chartership (APM or equivalent)
3. NEBOSH Construction Qualification

Experience

1. Ideally 5 years+ experience in implementation of contractor management - in line with all Construction Design Management (CDM) regulations, with demonstrated leadership across complex delivery environments.
2. Ideally 5 years+ knowledge, experience and implementation of NEC and other contract administration, including leading commercial application and managing complex contractual matters
3. Extensive experience working with multi-disciplinary engineering, operations and asset management functions across complex projects with competing priorities

Knowledge & Skills

1. Extensive knowledge of the UK water industry, including regulatory drivers, asset standards, and capital delivery processes, with the ability to apply this knowledge strategically across projects and programmes
2. Strong contractor management, safety leadership, commercial oversight and performance management skills, with experience across complex and high-risk environments
3. Broad project and people management capabilities, including leading planning, controlling, and delivering capital projects across multidisciplinary teams against tight regulatory timelines
4. Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills across technical, operational and commercial teams

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 34 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 every day, 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

Our Water teams help bring Wales to life by protecting and delivering one of our most vital natural resources. Every role plays a part in keeping safe, high‑quality drinking water flowing to homes and businesses across the country.

We’re proud to offer an inclusive working environment where different perspectives, skills and experiences are valued, because we know diverse teams help us serve our communities better. Whatever your background, you’ll be supported to learn, grow and make a meaningful impact on everyday life in Wales.