Flow Delivery Manager

Anglian Water Group Ltd.; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Virtual GP service

Double-matched pension

Car allowance

Job summary

Anglian Water Group Ltd. is looking for a Flow Capital Delivery Manager to lead the Flow Compliance Capital Programme and a team of delivery engineers across live sites. You’ll drive delivery with safety, accountability, and strong contractor management, creating momentum and real customer/environmental impact.

This hybrid role combines strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, championing CDM compliance, value-for-money, performance reporting and continuous improvement across the programme.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering capital projects in a multi-site water environment.
• Strong contractor management and CDM compliance.
• Proven leadership delivering safe, on-time capital schemes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of delivery engineers to deliver the Flow Compliance Capital Programme.
• Manage contractors and framework partners across live sites.
• Ensure safety standards, budgets, forecasts and value for money.
• Use data and performance reporting to drive decisions.

Skills

Team leadership

Contract management

CDM knowledge

Capital delivery

Stakeholder management

Data & reporting

Tools

SAP

Job description

Flow Capital Delivery Manager- Water Recycling Salary: Starting from £57,000 (circa dependent on skills and experience) + Car Allowance Benefits: Private healthcare, virtual GP service for you and your household, double-matched pension (up to 21% combined) Location: Based within the Anglian Water region — hybrid working, including home, operational sites and office locations as required Contract Type: Permanent Hours: Full-time (Flexibility for part-time) For a great career, just add water. Lead the delivery of Water Recycling (wastewater) flow compliance solutions that make a real difference. 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

• Leading and developing a team of delivery engineers, creating a culture of accountability,challengeand excellent delivery.
• Delivering the Flow Compliance CapitalProgrammefrom conceptthrough toconstruction,commissioningand handover.
• Managing contractors and framework partners to ensure safe,effectiveand efficient delivery.
• Ensuring CDM requirements, safety standards and delivery risks are understood and managed throughout theprogramme.
• Maintaining strong commercial,financialandprogrammecontrols, including budgets,forecastsand value for money.
• Using data and performance reporting to track progress,identifyrisksearlyand support effective decisions.
• Working closely with Operations, Finance, SAP,contractorsand stakeholders to remove barriers and improve delivery performance.
• Driving continuous improvement across the Flow Complianceprogramme.

What we're looking for

We'relooking for a visible and authentic leader who can inspire a technical team, createmomentumand deliver results through others.You'llbe comfortable challenging the status quo, improving how things are done andmaintaining high standardsof safety,performanceand accountability. You'llcombine strongpeopleleadership 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 stop.

Essential experience

• Managing contractors, frameworkpartnersand supply chains.
• Working knowledge of CDM regulations and safe construction delivery.
• Leading and developing high-performing teams.
• Delivering capitalprogrammesor construction schemes in a complex operational environment.
• Leading and developing high-performing teams.
• Delivering capitalprogrammesor construction schemes in a complex operational environment.
• Strong commercial,financialandprogrammemanagement capability, including budgeting,forecastingand reporting.
• Using data and performance information to manage delivery and support decision making.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Full UK drivinglicence.

The type of person who'll thrive in this role

You'll be: A proactive leader who creates energy,clarityand momentum. Curious and improvement-focused, always looking for better ways to deliver. Comfortablechallenging assumptionsand havingconstructive 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.

Ready to make a difference? Closing date: Tuesday 15th September Interviews: Monday 28th & Tuesday 29th September

We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment. If you need any support, please get reach out to our team [e-mail]’

If you are offered a job with us, you’ll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check as well as your right to work in the UK. More information about how we look after and use your information can be found in our Privacy Notice.

Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.