Capital Senior / Project Manager

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water; Abergele; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water company in Wales is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead project teams in delivering high-volume capital solutions. You will ensure projects are completed on time and to budget while managing risks and compliance with health and safety legislation. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Water or Waste Water and project management with leadership skills. The position offers a competitive salary and various employee benefits.

Benefits

33 days annual leave (pro rata)

Enhanced employer pension contributions

Variable pay schemes

Gym and fitness discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Health Cashback scheme

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent is essential.
• Extensive experience in Water or Waste Water projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading project teams in capital solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate teams to deliver projects on time and budget.
• Manage project risks and ensure compliance with legislation.
• Assist with issue resolution with third parties.

Skills

Leadership

Project Management

Health and Safety Legislation

Commercial Awareness

People Management

Education

Degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Requisition Number 7624

Work Type Permanent

Job Function Project Management

Salary Range £56,710.00 -£69,471.00

Base

Kinmel Park (Kinmel Park or Ashgrove)

Closing Date

23:59 on 17/08/2025

Please note, we welcome applications from candidates interested in a Senior Project Manager role and a Project Manager role .

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

• 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.
• 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
• Fulfil the role of Project Manager as defined under NEC.
• Be accountable for the delivery of projects, sub-programmes and programmes of work to a defined timelines and budgets. Ensuring solutions met DCC outcomes.
• 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.
• Work collaboratively with operational and design teams, strategic partners and supply chain to fully understand asset performance concerns.
• To provide Project Management expertise for engineered solutions and provide support to operational colleagues and strategic partners as and when needed.
• Compliance with applicable DCC business systems, processes and procedures necessary to provide corporate governance.
• Ensure project, sub-programme and programme level risks are identified, valued, allocated, mitigated and monitored.
• 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.
• Assist with the resolution of issues with third parties.
• 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.
• Liaise closely with the commercial team on spend profiling, forecasting and scheme closure
• Performance management including mentoring, coaching, training & development of direct reports in accordance with all HR policies, including people engagement.
• Help identify good/best practice construction techniques, and bad practice where applicable under the positive intervention and near miss reporting procedure.
• Ensure all projects comply with the latest CDM Regulations.
• 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.

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact: [e-mail] and enter the Job Requisition Number in the subject title line.

Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. Please apply as soon as you can. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.

Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business. For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.

Base Kinmel Park / Hybrid Office

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

• Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
• Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
• Free Mortgage Brokering Services
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
• Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
• Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
• Many more can be found here!
  
  

Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment.

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision. This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them. The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work.

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.

Dŵr Cymru Cyf, a limited company registered in Wales No. 2366777. Registered office: Linea, Fortran Road, St. Mellons, Cardiff CF3 0LT

Dŵr Cymru Cyf 2019.