Glanua
Senior Contracts Manager
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Senior Contracts Manager - (Water Treatment Projects)
The Opportunity
This is a key leadership role within Glanua’s growing UK water business, leading delivery of a major AMP8 programme for United Utilities.
You will oversee a portfolio of complex treatment schemes including PFAS and taste & odour projects, ensuring successful delivery against regulatory, environmental and commercial targets.
You will lead a multidisciplinary team delivering full lifecycle solutions—from concept and design through construction, commissioning and handover—while supporting programme growth and strengthening Glanua’s position as a trusted delivery partner.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead safe, high-quality delivery of the AMP8 Water Programme
- Ensure projects meet regulatory and environmental performance requirements
- Manage programme performance across cost, schedule, margin and cashflow
- Build and maintain strong client relationships with United Utilities
- Drive programme growth and secure additional framework opportunities
- Lead and develop a high-performing multidisciplinary team
- Manage and develop key supply chain partners
- Champion innovation, modern construction methods, and sustainable solutions
- Support development of new delivery systems, processes, and best practice
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Experience & Skills:
- Extensive experience delivering water treatment projects in the UK
- Proven programme or major project leadership experience (£15m+ schemes)
- Strong commercial, contractual and risk management capability
- Experience delivering works on live treatment sites
- Strong stakeholder engagement with clients and design organisations
- Broad understanding across civil, mechanical, and electrical disciplines
- Experience with advanced treatment processes (e.g. ozone, GAC, chemical dosing)
- Relevant project management accreditation (AMP practitioner or equivalent)
What Success Looks Like:
- Successful delivery of AMP8 programme to time, cost, and quality
- High levels of client satisfaction and repeat workload
- Achievement of financial targets including margin and cash
- A high-performing, engaged delivery team
- Strong positioning for future AMP9 opportunities
Why Join Glanua:
This role offers the opportunity to lead delivery of major water infrastructure investment in the North West, contribute directly to environmental outcomes, and play a key role in the continued growth of Glanua in the UK water sector.
About Us:
Glanua is an industry leader in providing innovative and sustainable engineering solutions to design, build, operate and maintain critical water and wastewater infrastructure across Ireland and the UK. We are a trusted provider to the municipal and industrial sector where our clients include Ireland and the UK’s largest water utilities, Uisce Éireann (formally Irish Water), Thames Water, Yorkshire Water, Affinity Water and United Utilities.
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Glanua is passionate about solving today’s environmental challenges and delivering a decarbonised and sustainable world. We know that to build successful creative teams we need a diverse workforce that can deliver new innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential. We champion our core values and uphold the highest standards of Safety and Well-being, Innovation, Integrity, Collaboration, Courage, Agility, Accountability, Diversity and Inclusion in everything we do.
We have a talented team of 520+ people across Ireland and the UK and are rapidly expanding our workforce across several disciplines to meet our ambitious growth plans.
Your career within the organisation, training and promotion will always be available to you.
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