Programme Manager (Water Recycling)

Anglian Water Services; Colchester; On-site; GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water management company is seeking a Programme Manager for a full-time, permanent role based in Colchester. The candidate will lead project execution efforts, ensuring effective delivery while managing relationships with various stakeholders. Essential qualifications include an engineering degree and significant experience in operations and construction management. Competitive salary and benefits offered including a pension scheme, maternity leave, and private health care.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

26 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave

Personal private health care

Annual bonus scheme

Up to 26 days leave plus Bank Holidays

Flexible benefits

Life Cover at 8x your salary

Discounts on mobile contracts and cinema tickets

Qualifications

• Proven track record of improved client relationships.
• Experience in engaging and retaining high-quality staff.
• Ability to influence stakeholders across various groups.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee multiple project executions.
• Report into governance groups regarding project performance.
• Identify future opportunities and develop project workstreams.

Skills

Engineering knowledge

Multi-disciplined construction experience

Operations management

Client relationship management

Safety performance improvement

Stakeholder influence

Continuous improvement drive

Education

Engineering, Quantity Surveyor or similar Degree

Job description

Programme Manager (Water Recycling)

Location: Within the East Anglia area: Peterborough, Huntingdon, Milton Keynes, Norfolk and Colchester

Contract: Permanent/Full time

Salary: circa £80,000 dependent on experience and skills

At Anglian Water our values are that together, we will: Build trust, do the right thing, and we are always exploring.

Who are we?

Here within Anglian Water, we collaborate with a number of alliance partners to provide the best water recycling services across the region by maintaining our existing assets and undertaking new projects to safeguard future water supplies.

Playing a key part in our drive to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop are our Integrated Operational Solutions (IOS) Alliance. Comprising of Anglian Water, MGroup, Barhale and Kier, the IOS Alliance work together to concentrate on solutions across the water recycling asset base.

What will you be doing as our Programme Manager (Water Recycling)?

You’ll be responsible for leading and overseeing multiple project executions, ensuring profitability, efficiency, and compliance with corporate targets ensuring delivered to time, cost and quality measures. The role requires a strategic approach to project management, financial control, and resource allocation while maintaining strong relationships with Client stakeholders , supply chain, subcontractors, Internal functions and 3rd Party stakeholders.

You will be the lead in reporting into governance groups for ensuring that all programmes of work/efficiency targets are measured accordingly against targets in terms of cost, benefit, performance, efficiencies, delivery and timescales. This includes the project management expertise to be able to assess multiple opportunities, identify dependencies and generate appropriate programme of work.

This will lead on key initiatives, including programme managing and assuring the delivery of programmes of work and will be accountable for identifying risks to the programme outputs. Resolving conflicts and issues where necessary, to ensure that the appropriate mitigation measures are recommended and implemented.

You will report on the progress and communicate to stakeholders the specific business initiatives and investments that have been identified. You will identify future opportunities, prepare business cases, develop project groups/workstreams and track performance to ensure the overarching strategy and vision for the programme is realised.

A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours

• Engineering, Quantity Surveyor or similar Degree qualification
• Multi-disciplined construction experience
• Ideally extensive operations management experience across a broad spectrum of building disciplines with proven commercial, contractual and human resource management skills
• Proven track record of improved client relationships through successful project delivery
• Achievement of improved safety performance and industrial relations management
• Engaging and retaining high quality staff to achieve high performance levels.
• Proven history in effective programme management
• Ability to influence a range of stakeholders including external groups
• Broad understanding of the regulatory and operating environment
• Proven short, medium and long-term planning experience across wide areas of the business
• Drives continuous improvement of process and service

Why Anglian Water?

At Anglian Water, our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure their hard work is recognised and rewarded. Some of our benefits include:

• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.
• Personal private health care
• Annual bonus scheme
• Up to 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
• Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme
• Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks
• Life Cover at 8x your salary
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

If you feel this role is your next move within the industry and you display these skill sets and attributes, then please apply today.

Closing date

25th November 2025

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