Project Manager

What you’ll be responsible for

Support the delivery of projects spanning a range of value and complexity (typically <£10M), involving multidisciplinary teams and internal and external stakeholders. Contribute to delivery outcomes across the project lifecycle within defined governance frameworks.

Focus on effective coordination and execution of project being accountable for the end-to-end delivery of projects, ensuring completion in line with all statutory, regulatory, and financial outputs of the business plan.

Key Responsibilities

1. Support a best-in-class approach to Health, Safety, Wellbeing and Environmental stewardship across projects, ensuring compliance with the latest CDM Regulations and promoting a proactive, safe working culture for colleagues, partners and the public.
2. Support delivery across projects, contributing to effective planning, coordination, and delivery across multidisciplinary teams, aligning projects with wider business and asset strategies.
3. Fulfil the role of NEC Project Manager, ensuring contractual processes are followed, whilst ensuring high-quality contract administration, and driving timely execution of all contractual obligations ensuring collaboration, trust, risk management and programme acceptance.
4. 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.
5. Support 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.
6. Meet all standby obligations for the role, ensuring appropriate out‑of‑hours availability and management during emergency situations to safeguard service continuity.

About you

Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience 

Qualifications

1. HND/foundation degree in related discipline (or equivalent experience)
2. Professional Project Management qualification (APM or equivalent)
3. Construction related qualification (NEBOSH / IOSH)

Experience

1. Ideally, a minimum of 5 years’ implementation of contractor management in line with all Construction Design Management (CDM) regulations, with demonstrated leadership across complex delivery environments.
2. Ideally, a minimum of 5 years’ knowledge, experience and implementation of NEC and other contract administration.
3. Experience working with multi-disciplinary engineering, operations and asset management functions across complex projects with competing priorities.

Knowledge & Skills

1. Good knowledge of the UK water industry, including regulatory drivers, asset standards, and capital delivery processes.
2. Strong contractor management, safety leadership, commercial oversight and performance management skills.
3. Project management capabilities, including planning, controlling, and delivering capital projects across multidisciplinary teams against tight regulatory timelines
4. Effective communication and stakeholder management skills across technical, operational and commercial teams

Good to know

• The successful candidate will be required to participate in a standby rota, earning additional payments.
• Car allowance of £5,000 per annum is also offered.

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 will always stay the same, but depending on the performance of the company you could receive a yearly bonus)
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Reduction on gym memberships and high street shopping
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car-leasing scheme
• Health CashBack scheme
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family

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.
 

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.