Anglian Water Services
Assistant Project Manager
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Assistant Project Manager
Location
Peterborough
Contract
Full Time/Permanent
Salary
Dependent on experience and skills
About Anglian Water
At Anglian Water, we collaborate with alliance partners to provide top-notch water and water recycling services across the region by maintaining our assets and undertaking new projects. Our commitment to Love Every Drop is demonstrated through our Integrated Operational Solutions (IOS) Framework, which includes Anglian Water, MGroup, Barhale, and Kier. The IOS alliance focuses on solutions across water recycling and clean water assets, working in multiple disciplines.
We are looking for a Project Engineer to join our team and ensure water and water recycling projects are managed successfully from inception to completion, meeting all required standards, regulations, commercial affordability targets, and time frames.
What Will You Be Doing?
As our new Assistant Project Manager, you'll be responsible for:
- Working with and supporting the Project Delivery Manager.
- Coordinating with Project Engineers, Partner representatives, and external stakeholders to deliver continuous water quality monitoring (CWQM) projects effectively from planning to operation.
- Supporting the delivery of CWQM projects on time while embedding sustainability principles and safety.
- Ensuring project efficiency through Anglian Water's Totex Delivery Process and within Governance, complying with Project Management, H&S, Commercial, Risk, Value, and DM deliverables processes.
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Key Responsibilities
- Support, and on occasion deputise for, the Project Delivery Manager (PDM).
- Deliver assigned responsibilities in accordance with project phase plans.
- Identify and manage risk and opportunities where appropriate.
- Coordinate and manage contract requirements relating to design solutions, construction, and commissioning.
- Coordinate stakeholder involvement in key decisions and provide high-quality customer service and satisfaction.
- Champion excellence in Health and Safety, reporting concerns or observations during site visits.
- Drafting progress reports and updates to inform Governance Boards of progress, issues, risks, and opportunities.
Key Skills & Behaviours
- Experience in delivering projects or coordinating complex tasks and activities to support planned outcomes.
- Working with others to establish and sustain effective relationships with multiple stakeholders.
- Organised with strong attention to detail.
- Able to make decisions and escalate when needed.
- Strong communication skills, confident in writing and presenting.
- Driving Licence - essential.
- APM qualifications/fundamentals - desirable.
- Engineering Degree or experience - desirable.
- Prior Construction experience or CSCS card - desirable.
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Why Anglian Water?
At Anglian Water, our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure their hard work is recognised and rewarded. Some of our benefits include:
- Bonus scheme
- Private healthcare
- Competitive pension scheme
- 25 days annual leave, increasing with length of service
- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing
Inclusion is for everyone, and we are an equal opportunity employer. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we're committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.
If the opportunity to add value to a commercial team that delivers community-centric and vital projects appeals to your career aspirations, please apply today.
Closing Date
23rd September 2026
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