WGM Engineering Ltd
Regional Director (England) - Water Sector
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The Vacancy
WGM Engineering, part of RSK Group, is looking for a Regional Director England to join our Projects business stream on a permanent, full-time basis. This role will be based in England, with regular travel to client, partner, and project locations. This is a senior leadership opportunity to shape the successful delivery and growth of WGM’s activities across the English water sector.
The Regional Director England will provide senior customer leadership and strategic direction, with particular emphasis on supporting WGM’s relationships with MWH Treatment and bWGM across secured and future water-sector frameworks. Acting as the principal interface between WGM, MWH Treatment, bWGM, and key client stakeholders, you will align priorities, resolve issues proactively, and build trusted relationships that support consistent framework performance and long-term growth.
With full profit and loss responsibility for all WGM projects delivered in England, you will be accountable for commercial performance, revenue, margin, cash management, cost control, and financial governance. You will also position WGM as a valued MEICA delivery partner, promoting our Off-Site Engineering, refurbishment, maintenance, specialist coatings, fabrication, and circular-economy capabilities.
WGM Engineering is a growing engineering business delivering critical infrastructure projects across the water, utilities, and infrastructure sectors. As part of RSK Group, we combine the scale and support of a wider group with the practical, hands-on approach of a specialist engineering delivery business. Our teams work with major clients across regulated environments, supporting safe, sustainable, and high-quality project delivery. We are continuing to grow across the UK and are focused on building long-term capability, strengthening our teams, and creating opportunities for people to build meaningful careers.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Provide visible senior leadership and customer focus for WGM across the English water sector, acting as the key point of contact for MWH Treatment and bWGM.
- Take full profit and loss responsibility for all WGM projects delivered in England, ensuring robust financial control, accurate forecasting, cash management, margin protection, and delivery of agreed commercial targets.
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across MWH Treatment, bWGM, WGM, and client organisations, ensuring open communication, strategic alignment, and early resolution of issues.
- Ensure customer requirements, framework commitments, and performance expectations are understood and translated into practical, measurable delivery plans.
- Develop and deliver WGM’s growth plan for England, identifying opportunities across long-cycle frameworks, strategic supply-chain relationships, and sustainable water-sector programmes.
- Promote WGM’s MEICA, Off-Site Engineering, refurbishment, maintenance, specialist coatings, fabrication, and circular-economy capabilities to create additional value for customers and delivery partners.
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What You’ll Bring
- Significant senior leadership experience within water, wastewater, utilities, engineering, infrastructure, construction, or another complex regulated delivery environment.
- Proven accountability for the commercial and operational performance of a major framework, programme, regional business, or portfolio of projects.
- Strong commercial and financial capability, including profit and loss management, forecasting, revenue, margin, cash management, cost control, and financial governance.
- A strong track record of building trusted relationships with major clients, strategic delivery partners, and senior stakeholders.
- Experience working successfully across framework, joint venture, alliance, or strategic supply-chain environments.
- The ability to develop and deliver growth strategies while maintaining a clear focus on customer outcomes, safe delivery, quality, sustainability, and commercial performance.
Experience within the UK regulated water sector, working with major water companies, Tier 1 delivery partners, MEICA frameworks, Off-Site Engineering, or collaborative joint venture arrangements would be helpful.
Salary And Benefits
We are offering a competitive salary. Full banding is available on request.
At WGM, We Offer a Competitive Benefits Package Designed To Support Our People Both Inside And Outside Of Work. This Includes:
- 32 days’ holiday, increasing to 36 days based on length of service
- Pension scheme, with WGM contributing 6%
- Life assurance scheme that pays 3 x salary
- Salary sacrifice options, including electric vehicle scheme, annual leave purchase, and cycle to work schemes
- Flexible benefits programme, including health cash plan and discounted gym membership
- Remote and hybrid working options, subject to role requirements
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Company sick pay, available after a qualifying period
- Employee discount programme
RSK Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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About Us
Based in Scotland, we are an engineering business providing mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering services to clients across the UK. We are one of the UK’s leading engineering solution providers, recognised for outstanding client service, quality solutions, and our commitment to health and safety. From our HQ in Glasgow, we deliver sustainable solutions to the water and renewables sectors. Supplementary services include project management, technical engineering, design, and off-site modular build.
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We have partnered with innovative technology providers in the renewables sector, including solar PV, hydroelectric, and heat networks. We are a progressive, people-orientated business driven by our values to deliver workable and cost-effective solutions in the communities we work. When you work for WGM, you join a dynamic team and have the opportunity to be part of our ambitious plans for future growth.
WGM is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.
At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.
Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop, and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's people-first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.
By providing workplace adjustments, we make it easier for people to confidently explore and pursue our career opportunities and recognise that flexibility is key to fostering a dynamic and thriving workplace. Many of our office-based positions benefit from a flexible working arrangement, allowing our team members to achieve a balance between professional and personal commitments.
We actively encourage applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, ages, neurotypes, religions or beliefs, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities.
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