Delivery Manager

MGroup Water; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water infrastructure provider in the UK seeks a Delivery Manager to oversee Thames Water Infrastructure Programmes. The role includes managing projects, ensuring quality delivery, and leading a skilled team. Candidates should have strong mechanical engineering experience, a commercial background, and capabilities in risk management. A range of benefits, including a company car and healthcare, are offered.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Cycle to work scheme

Private health care

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Proven track record in mechanical engineering and capital maintenance.
• Strong understanding of water processes and equipment.
• Ability to manage business and risk with commercial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Lead team on Thames Water Infrastructure Programmes contract.
• Ensure safe, quality delivery of projects.
• Manage stakeholder engagement and risk management.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Commercial and contractual background

Risk management

Management of multidisciplinary teams

Knowledge of temporary works

Education

NEBOSH or similar

APM or equivalent

ILM or equivalent

Job description

About The Role

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 will you 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 demand management and network infrastructure team.

Want to be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

As our Delivery Manager you’ll be working on our Thames Water Infrastructure Programmes contract. You’ll be responsible for leading an experienced team to deliver on a number of key metrics for Thames Water. In both maintenance small capital works (including District and Zonal Meters, pressure management and reduction, CALMS network and high consequence valves). The work is dynamic and varied. You’ll be responsible for managing programme and project delivery from higher volume to larger and more complex works with a regular review of performance against safe, quality delivery and cost.

You’ll need to manage the safe and quality assured delivery of the projects to high standards, ensuring the correct processes and procedures are in place and followed for right first time and defect free delivery. You will also lead the stakeholder management across this varied portfolio through proactive engagement and be responsible for the risk management of this programme.

You’ll be responsible for achieving financial targets whilst delivering against the client’s regulatory and measured targets. Managing, measuring, and reporting commercial, operational / programme, schedule and quality information centrally and working closely in collaboration with our client. Lead by example and promote a positive behavioural safety, health, environment, and wellbeing culture.

What you’ll bring

• Proven track record of mechanical engineering and capital maintenance
• Understanding of the water process, and the types of equipment / assets involved
• A strong commercial and contractual background
• Knowledge of temporary works, and a comprehensive understanding of CDM.
• Manage multidisciplinary teams in a regulated water environment against milestones and budgets in a safe and profitable way at a senior level
• Ability to manage risk and business management with commercial and business acumen
• NEBOSH or similar
• APM or equivalent

ILM or equivalent What's in it for you?

• We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1,000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Reward and recognition schemeIn addition, this role offers;
• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV / Hybrid car scheme
• Personal Accident Cover
• Private health care for you and your family
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

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. Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note : Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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