Capital Senior / Project Manager

Dwr Cymru Welsh Water; Abergele; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water utility provider in Wales is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead capital projects within the organization. The role involves overseeing project delivery, managing risks, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the water sector and hold a degree-level qualification. This position offers an opportunity to work collaboratively with various stakeholders and contribute to the successful execution of significant projects.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Water or Waste Water.
• Experience leading project teams in capital solution delivery.
• Understanding of CDM Regulations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate project delivery teams.
• Ensure projects are delivered safely on time and within budget.
• Manage risks and compliance with governance processes.

Skills

Leadership and direction

Project management expertise

Commercial awareness

Understanding of Health and Safety Legislation

Decision making

Education

Professional Qualification and Education to Degree level or Equivalent

Job description

What you’ll be responsible for

Leading, motivating, and supporting both internal Welsh Water colleagues and the wider Capital supply chain to ensure programmes are delivered. As a Senior Project Manager, you will:

1. Provide leadership and direction to the delivery team so as to ensure that the department’s projects are delivered safely on time and to budget.
2. Challenge suppliers, contractors and designers to ensure best value solutions are implemented fit for operational purposes and all in accordance current Health, safety and environmental legislation
3. Fulfil the role of Project Manager as defined under NEC.
4. Be accountable for the delivery of projects, sub-programmes and programmes of work to a defined timelines and budgets. Ensuring solutions met DCC outcomes.
5. Ensure investment needs are effectively scoped and optimal solutions are identified, input into design and manage the procurement processes, also manage the construction, delivery and commissioning of assets.
6. Work collaboratively with operational and design teams, strategic partners and supply chain to fully understand asset performance concerns.
7. To provide Project Management expertise for engineered solutions and provide support to operational colleagues and strategic partners as and when needed.
8. Compliance with applicable DCC business systems, processes and procedures necessary to provide corporate governance.
9. Ensure project, sub-programme and programme level risks are identified, valued, allocated, mitigated and monitored.
10. Contract administration, predominantly NEC, ensuring quality, cost and time targets are met. Instigate project stakeholder signoff in order to ensure business interests are represented during solution selection and any business risks are understood.
11. Assist with the resolution of issues with third parties.
12. Ensure that all project commissioning and handover documentation and procedures are considered, complied with and completed through the project lifecycle; design to the issue of Final Certificates.
13. Liaise closely with the commercial team on spend profiling, forecasting and scheme closure
14. Performance management including mentoring, coaching, training & development of direct reports in accordance with all HR policies, including people engagement.
15. Help identify good/best practice construction techniques, and bad practice where applicable under the positive intervention and near miss reporting procedure.
16. Ensure all projects comply with the latest CDM Regulations.
17. Undertake appropriate ‘root cause ‘analysis upon scheme completion in order to ensure that there is a continuous improvement process applied.

Who you’ll work with

Internal

• Operations, Assets, Finance, Estates, Streetworks, Procurement, Health & Safety and Commercial
• Director / Senior Management

External

• Supply Chain
• Customers
• Private Landowners
• Regulators NRW/EA/OFWAT/DWI/CCW
• Local Authorities
• Other leading companies within the utility sector

About you

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Professional Qualification and Education to Degree level or Equivalent.
• Extensive experience of Water or Waste Water.
• Extensive experience of project management, leading a Project team in the delivery of high volume capital solutions.
• Experience and understanding of Health and Safety Legislation including CDM Regulations
• A wide range of project delivery ability and people-management skills are required, combined with strong commercial awareness in the planning, design and construction of projects
• Decision making and awareness of wider business issues, corporate policies and the ability to deliver cost effective solutions within target timescales

Good to know

Please note, we welcome applications from candidates interested in a senior project manager role and a project manager role.