Senior project manager

About the Role

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine.

Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop.

Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where you will be working

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations.

We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards.

We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team.

Our teams deliver large‑scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long‑term while protecting the environment.

What you will be doing

As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead the delivery of complex or concurrent projects, ensuring outcomes meet safety, quality, commercial and regulatory standards.

You will provide strategic leadership across engineering, planning, SHEQ, commercial and site operations, applying consistent governance, programme, cost and risk controls.

Acting as the senior escalation point, you will resolve complex technical and contractual challenges, maintain strong stakeholder relationships and drive a culture of safe, accountable and continuously improving performance.

You will ensure robust governance, compliance and quality assurance through strong controls over risk, change and documentation, alongside rigorous HSE leadership.

Lead integrated planning, aligning schedules, resources and delivery strategies to meet milestones while mitigating risks and maintaining critical path progress.

Full accountability for financial performance, including forecasting, cost control and commercial reporting, while managing supply‑chain delivery, variations and value engineering to achieve predictable outcomes.

You will champion clear stakeholder communication, acting as the primary contact for senior issues and enabling informed decision‑making.

You will develop the team's capability through coaching and structured oversight, fostering a high‑performance environment.

Proactive risk management, continuous improvement and effective problem‑solving underpin delivery success, ensuring balanced decisions that meet client expectations, contractual commitments and organisational standards.

What you’ll bring

• Experience delivering large, complex or multidisciplinary projects, managing scope, cost, programme and quality.
• Strong leadership of multidisciplinary teams across engineering, construction, commercial, planning and SHEQ.
• Demonstrable contract and commercial management experience (e.g., NEC, JCT), including variations and early warnings.
• Solid financial and programme management capability, including forecasting, cost control and critical path management.
• Effective risk identification and mitigation, ensuring delivery remains on time, within budget and to required standards.
• Excellent stakeholder and client management, with the ability to influence and communicate at senior levels.
• Proven ability to lead, guide and develop project delivery teams.
• Strong understanding of HSE requirements and ability to promote safe working practices.
• Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., Primavera, MS Project).
• Relevant degree or equivalent experience, plus required certifications (CSCS, SMSTS, IOSH Managing Safely or NEBOSH General Certificate).

Benefits

• Contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1 000s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give‑as‑you‑earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us
• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme
• Family cover
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eye‑care and physiotherapy and much more
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Discretionary bonus scheme

Values

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet.
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations.
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life.

Inclusion

We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.