Project Delivery Manager

M Group Water; Colchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Project Delivery Manager to drive successful project outcomes in water and wastewater infrastructure. This role emphasizes leadership, safety, and innovation, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and effectively. You will manage a dedicated team, focusing on health, safety, and wellbeing while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. With a commitment to sustainability and community impact, this position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to essential infrastructure services while enjoying a supportive and inclusive work environment. If you're ready to make a difference, this role is for you.

Benefits

Matched or Contributory Pension Scheme

Online GP Service

Employee Assistance Programme

Access to Retail Discounts

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Enhanced Parental Leave

Discretionary Bonus Scheme

Company Car and Fuel Card

Health Care Cash Plan

Qualifications

• Strong technical competence in water supply and regulatory knowledge.
• Management experience with excellent stakeholder skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery and construction teams for small to medium projects.
• Ensure compliance with CDM regulations and health and safety standards.

Skills

Project Management (APMP or PRINCE 2)

Technical Competence in Water Supply

Stakeholder Management

Health and Safety Management (IOSH)

Financial Management

Commercial Acumen (NEC 3)

Education

Degree in Relevant Scientific or Engineering Subject

Business or Management Qualification (e.g. ILM Certificate)

Professional Qualification (e.g. CIWEM)

Job description

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.

What will you be doing?

As our Project Delivery Manager you'll be instrumental in implementing successful delivery through Integrated Operational Solutions (IOS) Water and be responsible for delivering project plan targets in line with business requirements.

You'll have the opportunity to drive a delivery and construction team to ensure successful solutions of small to medium projects are developed and constructed safely and successfully.

You'll strive for clarity around programme completion and support your local team in consistent delivery across the region with your peers.

Your focus will be on the development and support of your people to ensure they are best for task and have the necessary resources and skills to successfully complete projects.

Guarantee Construction, Design and Management (CDM) compliance throughout delivery and construction, including regular auditing of sites.

You'll empower teams to take time, complete work safely and call out poor Health, Safety and Wellbeing instances by playing an active role in your area, on site supporting best practice and leading by example.

Develop a method for construction and delivery teams to share Health, Safety and Wellbeing issues on operational sites with the Operational teams to enable tracking and improvement reports to be returned.

Develop an active management plan with the Management team to generate a culture of visible leadership around project plans, health and safety across the delivery and construction arena.

You'll be leading the team to focus on efficiency and innovation in design to support safe, efficient project delivery.

You'll need to manage programme budget in conjunction with the Commercial Team, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses.

What You’ll Bring

• APMP or PRINCE 2 project management
• Very strong technical competence in water supply and knowledge of the water regulatory environment
• Education to degree or equivalent level in relevant scientific or engineering subject would be advantageous.
• Preferably a business or management qualification (e.g. ILM certificate).
• Appropriate professional qualification (e.g. CIWEM) would be valuable.
• Strong management experience underpinned by excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Health and Safety management qualified to a minimum of IOSH level.
• Proven financial management knowledge.
• Good level of commercial and contractual acumen in line with NEC 3.
• Demonstrable experience of integrating regional programmes of work within an operational environment.

If you are looking for your next career move in a dynamic environment where you can see the value you add, please apply today.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Personal Accident Cover

About Us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.