Anglian Water Services
Senior Programme Manager (Water Recycling)
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Senior Programme Manager (Water Recycling)
Location
Within the East Anglia area: Peterborough, Huntingdon, Milton Keynes, Norfolk, and Colchester
Contract
Permanent/Full time
Salary
Competitive - dependent on experience and skills
About Us
At Anglian Water, we collaborate with alliance partners to provide the best water recycling services across the region by maintaining our existing assets and undertaking new projects to safeguard future water supplies. Playing a key part in our drive to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop are our Integrated Operational Solutions (IOS) Framework. Comprising of Anglian Water, MGroup, Barhale, and Kier, the IOS Framework work together to concentrate on solutions across the water recycling asset base.
What You'll Be Doing
As our Senior Programme Manager (Water Recycling), you'll be responsible for leading and overseeing multiple project executions, ensuring profitability, efficiency, and compliance with corporate targets ensuring delivered to time, cost, and quality measures. The role requires a strategic approach to project management, financial control, and resource allocation while maintaining strong relationships with Client stakeholders, supply chain, subcontractors, Internal functions, and 3rd Party stakeholders.
- Lead in reporting into governance groups for ensuring that all programmes of work/efficiency targets are measured accordingly against targets in terms of cost, benefit, performance, efficiencies, delivery, and timescales.
- Project management expertise to be able to assess multiple opportunities, identify dependencies, and generate appropriate programme of work.
- Lead on key initiatives, including programme managing and assuring the delivery of programmes of work and will be accountable for identifying risks to the programme outputs.
- Resolving conflicts and issues where necessary, to ensure that the appropriate mitigation measures are recommended and implemented.
- Report on the progress and communicate to stakeholders the specific business initiatives and investments that have been identified.
- Identify future opportunities, prepare business cases, develop project groups/workstreams, and track performance to ensure the overarching strategy and vision for the programme is realised.
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About You
- Engineering, Quantity Surveyor, or similar Degree qualification
- Multi-disciplined construction experience
- Ideally extensive operations management experience across a broad spectrum of building disciplines with proven commercial, contractual, and human resource management skills
- Proven track record of improved client relationships through successful project delivery
- Achievement of improved safety performance and industrial relations management
- Engaging and retaining high-quality staff to achieve high performance levels
- Proven history in effective programme management
- Ability to influence a range of stakeholders including external groups
- Broad understanding of the regulatory and operating environment
- Proven short, medium, and long-term planning experience across wide areas of the business
- Drives continuous improvement of process and service
Why Anglian Water?
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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:
- Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
- Excellent family-friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.
- Personal private health care
- Annual bonus scheme
- Up to 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
- Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets, and a Cycle2Work scheme
- Free parking at all offices, site, and leisure parks
- Life Cover at 8x your salary
- Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
Inclusion is for everyone, and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other protected characteristic. 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 you feel this role is your next move within the industry and you display these skill sets and attributes, then please apply today.
Closing Date
14th August 2026
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