Flow Delivery Manager

Anglian Water Group; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Anglian Water in Peterborough is seeking an experienced Flow Capital Delivery Manager to lead the Flow Compliance Capital Programme and a team of delivery engineers on live sites. You will create momentum, governance and delivery accountability, ensuring safe, value-for-money outcomes for customers and the environment.

As a visible leader, you will manage contractors and partners, drive continuous improvement, and maintain strong commercial and programme controls while navigating a complex

Qualifications

• Experience delivering capital programmes or construction schemes in a complex operational environment.
• Strong commercial, financial and programme management capability including budgeting, forecasting and reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder management and driving accountability within a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop delivery engineers to create a culture of accountability and excellent delivery.
• Deliver the Flow Compliance Capital Programme from concept through to construction, commissioning and handover.
• Manage contractors and framework partners to ensure safe, effective and efficient delivery.
• Ensure CDM requirements and safety standards are understood and managed throughout the programme.
• Maintain strong budget, forecast and value-for-money controls.
• Use data and performance reporting to track progress and support effective decisions.

Skills

Capital delivery

Contractor management

CDM regulations

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Budgeting and forecasting

Data-driven decision making

Job description

At Anglian Water, we're investing in our assets, our environment and our future. We're looking for an experienced and inspiring Flow Capital Delivery Manager to lead our Flow Compliance Capital Programme and a team of delivery engineers. This is a people leadership role with real delivery accountability. You'll create the momentum, direction and confidence the team needs to deliver great outcomes while ensuring projects are planned properly, delivered safely and provide lasting benefits for customers and the environment. We're looking for someone proactive and improvement-focused. You'll challenge inefficient processes, drive better ways of working and create a culture where people take ownership, solve problems and deliver with pride. The programme is delivered through contractors and framework partners on live operational sites, so you'll need strong experience in capital delivery, contractor management and CDM, alongside excellent leadership skills. What you’ll be doing

What you'll be doing

• Leading and developing a team of delivery engineers, creating a culture of accountability, challenge and excellent delivery.
• Delivering the Flow Compliance Capital Programme from concept through to construction, commissioning and handover.
• Managing contractors and framework partners to ensure safe, effective and efficient delivery.
• Ensuring CDM requirements, safety standards and delivery risks are understood and managed throughout the programme.
• Maintaining strong commercial, financial and programme controls, including budgets, forecasts and value for money.
• Using data and performance reporting to track progress, identify risks early and support effective decisions.
• Working closely with Operations, Finance, SAP, contractors and stakeholders to remove barriers and improve delivery performance.
• Driving continuous improvement across the Flow Compliance programme.

We're looking for a visible and authentic leader who can inspire a technical team, create momentum and deliver results through others. You'll be comfortable challenging the status quo, improving how things are done and maintaining high standards of safety, performance and accountability.

You’ll combine strong people leadership hands-on experience of delivering capital works through contractors on operational sites. You will know when to empower the team, when to intervene, when to challenge a partner and when to stop work or escalation.

Essential experience

• Managing contractors, framework partners and supply chains.
• Working knowledge of CDM regulations and safe construction delivery.
• Leading and developing high-performing teams.
• Delivering capital programmes or construction schemes in a complex operational environment.
• Leading and developing high-performing teams.
• Delivering capital programmes or construction schemes in a complex operational environment.
• Strong commercial, financial and programme management capability, including budgeting, forecasting and reporting.
• Using data and performance information to manage delivery and support decision making.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Full UK driving licence.

The type of person who'll thrive in this role

• A proactive leader who creates energy, clarity and momentum.
• Curious and improvement-focused, always looking for better ways to deliver.
• Comfortable challenging assumptions and having constructive but difficult conversations.
• Calm and credible under pressure, with strong judgement and decision-making skills.
• Equally comfortable leading people, working with operational teams and holding contractors to account.

Why join us?

This is a rare opportunity to shape and deliver a high-profile programme that directly impacts environmental performance, regulatory compliance and customer service across one of the UK's largest water companies. You'll have the opportunity to influence investment decisions, lead critical programmes and work with passionate teams dedicated to protecting the environment and improving service for customers across the region. If you're an experienced capital delivery leader with the technical expertise, commercial acumen and leadership presence to drive successful outcomes at scale, we'd love to hear from you.