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Senior Project Manager
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Senior Project Manager – Water and Wastewater Capital Projects
Opportunity to Grow – We believe in renewing and reimagining across our infrastructure. Whatever your stage in your career, you’ll have the opportunity to develop with us. We deliver essential infrastructure safety-first, while fostering a client and customer-centric culture—fun, respectful, and designed for you to thrive.
About the Organisation
We work to guard the water supply, enhance environmental performance, and manage demand for future generations. Our focus extends asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. With over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure, we are problem solvers.
Our role sits within the Water and Wastewater Capital Project Delivery Team, which implements large-scale projects to future-proof water infrastructure while protecting the environment.
What You’ll Be Doing
In your capacity as our Senior Project Manager, your primary objectives include:
- Leadership of complex or large projects: Ensure alignment with safety, quality, commercial, and regulatory standards.
- Strategic oversight: Direct multidisciplinary inputs from engineering, planning, SHEQ, commercial, and site operations.
- Robust governance: Implement programme, cost, and risk controls, acting as the senior escalation point to resolve technical and contractual challenges.
- Stakeholder management: Build and maintain strong relationships at all levels, fostering clear communication and decision-making.
- Financial accountability: Manage forecasting, commercial reporting, and budgetary performance, while controlling scope, variation transfers, and value engineering.
- Integrated planning: Align schedules, resources, and roadmap strategies to hit milestones while mitigating risks.
- Quality and HSE leadership: Drive an environment of safe, accountable, and continually improving performance.
- Team development: Copehr coaching and guidance to develop high-performance teams, sharpening individual and collective capabilities.
- Proactive problem-solving: Perform resourceful risk management, continuous improvement, and balanced decision-making to exceed client and regulatory standards.
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What You’ll Bring
We’re looking for candidates with:
- Project experience: Proven ability to manage large, complex, or multi-disciplinary project delivery covering scope, cost, programme, and quality.
- Leadership skills: Strong track record of leading multidisciplinary teams, including inputs from engineering, construction, commercial, planning, and SHEQ.
- Contract & commercial expertise: Hands-on experience handling agreements such as NEC (New Engineering Contract), JCT and managing contractual variations or penalty clauses.
- Financial acumen: Strong capacity for critical path management, forecasting, and cost control.
- Risk awareness: Demonstrated ability in risk identification, mitigation, and proactive resolution.
- Stakeholder influence: Excellent communication skills at senior levels, with the ability to advocate for outcomes and align expectations.
- Development influence: Proven track record of mentoring project teams and driving performance improvement.
- HSE competency: Extensive HSE requirements understanding, including Safe Working Practices and Health and Safety. Competent certifications include:
- CSCS (Construction Skills Certification Scheme)
- SMSTS (Site Management Safety Training Scheme)
- IOSH Managing Safely or NEBOSH General Certificate
- Technical tools: Proficiency with PLM (Project Controls tools) and MS Project/Primavera-style software (if available).
- Qualifications: Relevant degree or higher qualification (or equivalent experience).
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What’s in it for You?
Core Benefits
- Contributory pension scheme
- Online GP access (24/7, 365 days)
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards (thousands of retail discounts)
- Life assurance
- Cycle-to-work / salary sacrifice schemes
- Enhanced parental leave (maternity, paternity, adoption)
- Reward & recognition opportunities
- Referral scheme
Role-Specific Benefits
- Company car & fuel card (EV/ hybrid options available)
- My Car Choice – salaries-sacrificed EV or hybrid utility
- Family-cover private healthcare
- Health Care Cash Plan (claim back deductions for dental, eye care, physiotherapy, etc.)
- 25 days annual leave plus applicable bank holidays
- Discretionary bonus scheme
About Us
We’re passionate about fostering a great place to work and recognizing our EMPLOYER OF CHOICE status. We support diversity and talent, with initiatives for veterans, LGBTQ+, and intersectional Inclusion Networks (ENABLE). We blend responsibility, innovation, teamwork, and enterprise into our culture—adding value to our people, clients, and communities.
Our values:
"We go further—we are responsible. We seek better ways to exceed expectations. We’re strong together. We’re ambitious by design."
Development paths are established for graduates, apprentices, and our entire workforce, including industry-recognised training and upskilling platforms. Join us at an exceptional time for M Group.
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- Background checks.
- Mandatory drug & alcohol testing.
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