Design & Delivery Team Manager

Northumbrian Water; Darlington; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbrian Water is seeking a Design & Delivery Team Manager to lead the Integrated Design & Delivery team in Darlington. This permanent role involves managing installation technicians, overseeing project delivery, and ensuring a safety-focused culture. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, excellent organisational abilities, and practical technical experience.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Generous holiday arrangements

Company pension scheme

Car allowance

Wellbeing support

Discount scheme

Paid community involvement

Qualifications

• Experience leading a multi-discipline engineering team.
• Strong organisational and planning skills.
• Practical experience in a technical role.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of installation technicians and contractors.
• Manage the team's annual delivery plan and operating budget.
• Ensure safety-focused culture is embedded in the team.

Skills

Team Building

Performance Management

Communication

Organisational Skills

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Design & Delivery Team Manager (IDD)

Permanent role - 37 hrs core per week

Salary - up to £55,840 + car allowance - depending on experience

Location: Darlington

About the role

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Team Manager to join our Integrated Design & Delivery (IDD) team. In this role you will lead and manage a team of installation technicians and contractors of various disciplines (MEICA) in their activities to survey, design, procure and deliver low complexity/short duration asset replacement/enhancement across the water, wastewater and commercial directorates.

To reflect our increased capital investment requirement, the IDD team is expanding. We are also planning to increase the support we provide to our framework partners. You'll be leading this transformation in the area, ensuring that NWL safety focused culture is embedded/enhanced in the teams.

You’ll be responsible for managing people and resources and maintaining the team's annual delivery plan, phasing the workload during the year, considering resource availability, procurement time, stakeholder’s requirement as well as opportunities to group task geography or by type of work.

You’ll be accountable for the team operating budget, ensuring that financial allocations to capital projects are accurate. You’ll review team performance indicators and support continuous improvements.

We are looking for someone with great team building skills, a strong focus on performance management and engagement, along with an ability and desire to create an open and positive working environment that people want to join.

About you

We’re looking for you to have previous experience of leading a multi discipline engineering team, or exhibit relevant leadership behaviours, and be confident in working with contract stakeholders across the business.

To be successful, you’ll need to demonstrate that you have excellent organisational and planning skills. You’ll be able to formulate a project plan, resource and implement the delivery phase.

Practical experience in a technical role is essential to support the team effectively.

A strong Health and Safety ethic is an important part of our Everybody Home Safe Everyday culture and knowledge of CDM regulations would be beneficial.

You’ll have excellent communication skills both written and verbally and be a strong team player. A good understanding of Microsoft office packages including Outlook e-mail, Excel, Word and MS project is desirable, but these skills can be developed with the right candidate.

A full, UK driving license is required for this role.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups, as we believe and strive for community representation within all our teams, structures and organisation.

(Interviews will take place face to face on Tuesday 24th June – Smart Casual dress code)

What we will give you

Development

• Well-developed succession plans with opportunities for individuals to receive leadership and technical training in support of their career development within the Asset department
• Potential for company support for higher education
• Potential to develop and grow your career internally

Generous holiday arrangements

• Annual leave entitlement starting on 26 days + Bank Holidays – Increases with Length of Service
• Additional 2 x ½ days holiday for Christmas
• Option to buy and sell leave

Rewards & Benefits

• Company pension scheme, with employer contribution up to 11% for an employee contribution of 5%.
• Car allowance (£384/month)
• Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
• A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
• Paid time to take part in community events

Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date.

Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked