Framework Lead

MWH Treatment Limited; Exeter; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water treatment company is seeking a Framework Lead based in the South West region of the UK. This role involves strategic decision-making and overseeing project delivery within the Water Framework. The successful candidate will manage contracts, liaise with clients, and ensure high performance in health, safety, and quality. Essential qualifications include a degree in engineering and experience in the Water/Waste Water Treatment Industry. Strong leadership and operational skills are required for this senior management position.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role with senior management responsibilities.
• Strategic, operational, technical and management skills.
• Able to demonstrate strong leadership capability.
• Demonstrable client-facing joint venture experience.
• Drive to establish and embed positive delivery within the Joint Venture organisation.
• Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering-related discipline.
• Must be delivery driven with the ability to set targets and manage multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience in the Water/Waste Water Treatment Industry.

Responsibilities

• Lead on all contract preparation and client liaison duties.
• Support framework activities, providing strategic and professional guidance.
• Oversee successful project delivery ensuring compliance with quality systems.
• Provide senior management with project advice and expertise.
• Manage project costs rigorously and accurately.
• Implement business plans managing contracts against targets.
• Maximise global resource sharing and optimise technical skills.
• Provide direction and leadership to staff and consultants.

Job description

MWH Treatment is looking to strengthen their Operational team with a Framework Lead based in the South West region. The purpose of this role is to act as Framework Lead for the South West Water Framework. Strategic and instrumental decision making, enabling framework activities to meet the targets for delivery, turnover and profitability. You will support and advise to improve business performance leading to a successful culture and effective operational service and efficiency to the frameworks.

You will report directly to the Director of UK Operation and the responsibilities will include:

• To lead on all contract preparation and associated client liaison duties
• To support all aspects of the framework, providing strategic and professional guidance to the delivery teams from project identification through to takeover.
• Oversee the successful delivery of projects to scope, target cost, quality, programme and completion encompassing design, engineering, construction, handover and commercial aspects ensuring perfect delivery is achieved
• Advise the project management team on project planning activities and initiatives and present recommendations and project delivery status updates to key customers and stakeholders
• Implement and maintain appropriate systems for measuring necessary aspects of operational, programme, project management and development
• Lead, review and challenge project budgets and forecast to ensure a consistent, challenging but deliverable approach is adopted
• Be accountable for, and deliver, high levels of performance in key areas of health and safety, environment, sustainability and quality and champion continuous improvement and best value, ensuring compliance with the quality systems which constantly support our delivery philosophy
• Establishing and maintaining financial metrics including outlooks, project/program development, project/program delivery, risk control, bidding and management of all managers and delivery teams

• Provide the senior management team with advice and expertise on critical issues regarding the projects, and implementation
• Ensure that project costs are rigorously managed and expenditure is recorded accurately at all times
• Implement the business plan for projects, managing and reviewing performance of contracts against financial and operational targets
• Meet with the Board/Client to review project financials including cost to date, procurement, change orders, predicted final profit and contingency, and margin distribution
• Work closely with the leadership team to maximise global resource sharing, optimise technical skills and ensure that project best practice is developed and used effectively

• Provide direction, motivation and leadership to both internal staff and external consultants or contractors engaged in providing technical support activities to the project
• Act as leader on technical engineering issues
• Forecast long-term resource needs based on investment programmes

Essential :Experience in a similar role with senior management responsibilitiesStrategic, operational, technical and management skillsAble to demonstrate strong leadership capabilityDemonstrable client facing joint venture experienceDrive to establish and embed positive delivery within the Joint Venture organisationDegree or equivalent qualification in an engineering related discipline.Must be delivery driven with the ability to set targets and manage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver to time, cost and quality objectivesExperience in the Water/Waste Water Treatment IndustryTechnical Competencies: Expert1. Contract Management2. Governance3. Budgeting and cost control4. Risk, Opportunities and issue management5. Project Planning (schedule)6. Digital Delivery7. Procurement (negotiations and management)8. Solutions development (pre- construction / design development)9. Client, stakeholder and conflict management10. Resource management11. Change management12. Quality managementBehavioural competencies: Expert1. Communication2. Collaboration3. Client focus4. Striving for results5. Integrity and trust6. Coaching and providing feedback7. Leadership