Safety and Environmental Leadership

• Act as a ’Safety Champion’, fostering a proactive safety culture and ensuring compliance with:
  • Regulatory and statutory requirements
  • Client and ACCIONA standards
  • Third-party site-specific protocols

Interface and Coordination

• Serve as a key bridge between:
  • Construction and engineering teams
  • Planning, commercial, and operational professionals
  • Wider stakeholder groups (client, contractors, and authorities)
• Contribute to:
  • Lookahead planning
  • Progress review meetings
  • Technical and programme resolution
  • Risk mitigation strategies

Performance Assurance

• Construction monitoring and control:
  • Track and report progress against milestones and targets
  • Identify and implement mitigation measures for programme delays
  • Conduct regular progress reviews
• Quality assurance and control:
  • Ensure adherence to specifications, standards, and performance criteria
  • Drive effective testing, inspections, and compliance processes
• Cost and productivity management:
  • Collaborate with commercial teams on forecasting, change management, and subcontractor performance

Communication

• Maintain clear, credible communications with:
  • Senior project management and client representatives
  • Coordinate meetings, updates, and escalation points
  • Provide transparency on progress, risks, and performance

Essential Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree-level qualification in Civil Engineering or a related discipline
• Eight+ years’ experience delivering large-scale civil infrastructure projects in the UK (or equivalent offshore)
• Hands-on construction management role with strong experience in live environments—particularly brown-field assets, operational interfaces, or coordinated workstreams

Technical Expertise

• Technically accomplished in:
  • Reinforced concrete structures
  • Earthworks, excavation, and major infrastructure
  • Strategic asset integration with operational systems
• Preferred sector knowledge:
  • Experience within water, utilities, or energy industries is highly desirable, with a track record on projects such as:
    • Water treatment or purification asset upgrades
    • Wastewater management systems

Leadership and Management

• Skilled in managing and coordinating multiple professional teams, stakeholders, and subcontractors simultaneously
• Demonstrates strong leadership, with:
  • Proven ability to drive accountability and performance
  • Safety-focused mindset, balancing programme, cost, and quality
• laissez-faire but highly collaborative—capable of working within a multidisciplinary, cross-functional environment

Preferred Competencies

• Experience in design-assist or EPC-style frameworks
• Knowledge of environmental compliance frameworks and net zero infrastructure goals
• Experience working in regulated water supply asset environments
• Commercial awareness and experience with cost planning tools, subcontractor management, and contract administration

Diversity and Inclusion

At ACCIONA, we value diversity as our greatest source of talent. Our commitment is to:

• Foster an inclusive environment that promotes respect, belonging, and engagement.
• Ensure equal opportunity for all, regardless of origin, circumstances, background, or condition.

We invite and welcome applications from:

• All ethnic/racial backgrounds
• People from any nationality
• Individuals who represent differing socio-economic origins
• Underrepresented groups in engineering and infrastructure, including—without limitation—women, neurodiverse, and disabled candidates

If our values and the opportunity resonate with you, we’d love to hear from you—make your mark on the future of water infrastructure.