Project Director - Water Industry

Stantec; Kemp Town Estate; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in sustainable design and engineering is seeking a Project Director to oversee major projects in the water sector. The successful candidate will lead project delivery, mentor teams, and ensure stakeholder satisfaction. They should have a robust background in design for construction and proven leadership skills. This role offers an opportunity to make a tangible impact while shaping the future of the industry.

Qualifications

• Track record in delivering Major Projects within a multidisciplinary environment.
• In-depth understanding of design for construction and securing financial outcomes.
• Proven leadership and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of SRO projects and frameworks, ensuring successful outcomes.
• Act as a strategic and hands-on leader guiding teams on large-scale projects.
• Support growth in the Major Projects portfolio by applying D&C experience.
• Shape the firm’s future by championing best practices and developing new services.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Design for Construction

Education

Chartership with a relevant institution

Job description

Overview

These SRO projects and large frameworks require experienced and skilled leaders to take overall responsibility for delivery and to ensure successful project outcomes. As a Project Director, you'll be a key part of our sector leadership structure. You'll report directly to the Regional Director whilst also having a matrix reporting line to the Major Projects Discipline and Market Area Director. You'll be a strategic and hands-on leader, guiding our Project Managers and teams to deliver large-scale projects and programmes, with a particular focus on those where we work with contractors, notably in the design & construction environment.

We need Project Directors like you to support the incredible growth we're seeing in our Major Projects portfolio. Your in-depth experience of D&C will be critical in building our capability and capacity, whilst your proven leadership skills will help manage business risk.

You'll also play a pivotal role in shaping Stantec's future. Working with the Major Projects Discipline & Market Area Director, you'll help develop our people, whilst working with the Regional Leadership teams to implement commercial and risk management strategies across our projects and programmes. This is your chance to use your skills and entrepreneurial spirit to champion best practice, develop new services, and build a world-class project delivery offering.

This role is for a project leader with a track record in delivering successful Major Projects within a multidisciplinary environment (preferably in the water sector). You will possess an in-depth understanding of design for construction and the commercial acumen to ensure successful financial outcomes.

As primary contact for our clients, you will also have the ability to effectively manage stakeholder relationships, whilst also being able to demonstrate exemplary HSSE management & wellbeing behaviour.

You will ideally hold Chartership status with a relevant institution.

If you're passionate about leading, mentoring, and making a tangible impact, this is the opportunity you've been waiting for.

ESI Limited, now part of Stantec
Brighton
Brighton, GBR

Role and responsibilities

• Lead delivery of SRO projects and large frameworks, ensuring successful project outcomes.
• Act as a strategic and hands-on leader guiding Project Managers and teams on large-scale projects and programmes, with emphasis on design & construction environments.
• Report to the Regional Director with matrix reporting to the Major Projects Discipline and Market Area Director.
• Support growth in the Major Projects portfolio by applying D&C experience to build capability and capacity and manage business risk.
• Collaborate with the Major Projects Discipline & Market Area Director and Regional Leadership teams to implement commercial and risk management strategies.
• Shape the firm’s future by championing best practice, developing new services, and building a world-class project delivery offering.
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships with clients and demonstrate exemplary HSSE and wellbeing leadership.
• Maintain professional qualifications (Chartership) where applicable.

Qualifications

• Track record delivering Major Projects within a multidisciplinary environment, preferably in the water sector.
• In-depth understanding of design for construction and the ability to secure successful financial outcomes.
• Proven leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
• Chartership with a relevant institution preferred.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable design and engineering, and we're looking for a visionary Project Director to join our award-winning Water Sector team. This is more than a job; it's a chance to shape the industry and build a legacy.

We are recognised as the International Consulting Firm of the Year and Best Place to Work at the 2024 New Civil Engineer Awards. Our success is built on delivering complex, high-impact projects that make a real difference. Stantec's AMP8 campaign has created significant opportunities with UK and Ireland Water Companies, spanning feasibility studies, planning, design for construction, construction management, operations and maintenance. We bring together the talent, expertise and innovation to deliver successful project outcomes. We now seek your leadership to drive our next phase of growth.

The role can sit across any of our offices within the region, including London, Cambridge, Brighton, Southampton, Ashford, Kings Hill, Reading, or High Wycombe, with the opportunity to work on significant SRO Projects and water frameworks such as Wessex Water\'s Capital Delivery Partnership, Southern Water\'s Professional Services Framework and Thames Water\'s Asset Capital & Engineering Framework.

The Stantec community unites more than 33,000 employees in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been serving the UK for over 150 years, planning, designing, delivering and managing infrastructure to support sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective solutions, translating clients\' visions into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We address today\'s challenges while aiming for a fairer, better tomorrow through clean growth and future-focused delivery.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec complies with laws and regulations to ensure equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn\'t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.