Portfolio Engineering Lead – Major Projects

MWH Treatment; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

MWH Treatment is seeking a Programme Engineering Lead / Portfolio Engineering Lead for the AW Major Project, primarily based in the Anglian Water region. You will report to the Divisional Engineering Lead, providing visible leadership across a portfolio of work, setting technical direction and ensuring safe, compliant delivery.

Role requires leading design development from feasibility to handover, coordinating client, project and discipline teams, and driving performance across governance, cost

Qualifications

• Widely recognised engineering professional with substantial leadership, client, commercial and multi-team delivery experience.
• Experience managing geographically dispersed engineering teams across multidisciplinary water and wastewater design-and-build schemes.
• Delivery-driven leader able to set targets, manage budgets and motivate design teams to achieve time, cost and quality objectives.
• Strong planning, coordination, stakeholder-management and project-control capability.
• Expert knowledge gained as an Engineering Manager, Design Manager or technically focused Operational Manager on design-and-build projects.
• Able to provide calm direction, improve consistency and support teams through delivery pressure.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering management across the assigned framework and set and lead a clear engineering strategy.
• Define the engineering organisation, single points of accountability and a published Responsibility Assignment Matrix.
• Produce affordable solutions to meet client requirements.
• Promote innovative solutions within delivery ensuring appropriate technical and commercial review and sign off as required.
• Liaise with other engineering leads across the business and JV partner and participate in wider business activities outside of the framework.
• Coordinate resource demand with the Divisional Engineering Manager, deployment, workload visibility and delivery priorities with project and discipline leads.
• Maintain a 12-month resource plan covering ramp-up curves, key personnel, succession, contingency, supply chain requirements and regional capacity.
• Monthly engineering financial reporting in line with framework and wider business requirements.
• Monitor engineering cost, programme, quality, risk and governance performance, escalating issues early and linking cost, carbon and programme reporting.
• Establish decision-making routes, delegated authority, technical-risk ownership and alignment with Anglian Water governance.
• Represent Engineering at Framework Leadership Meetings and maintain effective Anglian Water, operational and third-party interfaces.
• Ensure joint design reviews, risk workshops, planning sessions and asset-data requirements are agreed and managed through connected platforms.
• Ensure technical excellence, quality control and compliance across all projects through the governed business management system.
• Manage lessons learned, framework-wide improvements, innovation pipeline, benefits tracking and agreed derogations.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic engineering direction

Stakeholder management

Multi-team delivery

Decision making

Education

Chartered status

Job description

MWH Treatment is seeking a Programme Engineering Lead / Portfolio Engineering Lead for the AW Major Project, primarily based in the Anglian Water region. You will report to the Divisional Engineering Lead, providing visible leadership across a portfolio of work, setting technical direction and ensuring safe, compliant delivery.

Role requires leading design development from feasibility to handover, coordinating client, project and discipline teams, and driving performance across governance, cost