What you’ll be doing
as a Project Manager
1. Manage several projects through their life cycle, including commercial management, risk management and associated reporting.
2. Establish and continuously promote a proactive health, safety, and environment culture across complex and high-risk Project portfolios and our service providers.
3. Develop and deliver an optimised project to achieve all regulatory, statutory, and internal outputs, deadlines, and targets.
4. Accountability throughout the project lifecycle, governance compliance, and effective engagement with internal and external stakeholders lead to the smooth transition of project outcomes into operational business.
5. Actively protecting, managing, and enhancing Thames Water’s reputation with external customers and stakeholders.
6. Development of project briefs, including supplementary information for the project's subsequent early contractor involvement phase.
7. Supporting the development and definition of the tender package(s), including the scope of work to support the Procurement team through each stage of the tender process, ensuring the demanding timescales are met.
8. Managing the project's ‘route to consent’ strategy, highlighting program and project risks relating to required consents, and considering any potential early works.
9. Managing and assuring the performance of contractors to deliver project outcomes on time, cost, and quality.
A hybrid basis in a London-based office - as per the business needs, you must be on-site or in the office 2 – 3 days a week.
36 hours Monday to Friday
The successful candidate will ideally drive and have access to transportation.
What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria are:
10. A background in construction or utilities-based projects.
11. A technical education and engineering background.
12. Understanding of the project’s life cycle and how to communicate it to both external and internal stakeholders effectively.
13. Be knowledgeable of the stage-gate project management process
14. Have a strong background in delivering a programme of projects from beginning to end of completion
15. Strong communication skills to be able to liaise with internal and external backgrounds
16. Understanding of Health and Safety standards, legislation, and governance
Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring
17. Previous water or utilities experience
What’s in it for you?
18. Competitive salary from £56,000 to £67,000 per annum
19. 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
20. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to both company and individual performance measures and targets
21. Generous Pension Scheme through AON
22. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.