Project Manager

Kier Group; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group seeks a Project Manager to join our Severn Trent Framework in Derby, delivering design and build projects across water and wastewater. You’ll lead from conception through handover, coordinating internal teams and supply chain partners to ensure on-time, safe delivery.

The role requires a relevant degree, knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 contracts, a full driving licence, and strong stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• You have a relevant degree (or equivalent) and/or demonstrable experience within Water or Utilities.
• You have strong knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 contracts and Health & Safety legislation, including CDM regulations.
• You are capable of organising yourself and others and communicating clearly with different levels of stakeholder.
• You hold a Full driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Leading projects from conception through to handover, ensuring timely and smooth delivery
• Implementing and monitoring Health, Safety and wellbeing policies, engaging with your team and supply chain partners
• Managing programme ownership and liaising with clients to ensure high standards of customer service
• Supporting the selection of supply chain partners based on technical and commercial judgement
• Taking P&L responsibility for projects in your portfolio, delivering and enhancing margin

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Health & safety knowledge

Education

Relevant degree in Water/Utilities or related field

Tools

NEC3/NEC4 contracts

Job description

We're looking for a Project Manager to join our Severn Trent Framework based in Derby.

Location: DerbyHours: 45 per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

As a Project Manager, you'll be working within the Natural Resources team on our Severn Trent Water framework, supporting them in delivering design and build projects across a portfolio consisting of both infrastructure and non-infrastructure, water and wastewater projects. Kier is a strategic partner to Severn Trent Water for AMP8 on capital frameworks, delivering design and build services for new and existing assets. This is an exciting opportunity to lead projects from conception through to handover, ensuring smooth delivery whilst maintaining the highest standards.

Company: Kier Group Salary: Not specified Hours: Full-time Location: CV3 6SD Job type: Permanent Posting date: 26 Oct 2026 Closing date: 25 Nov 2026

Responsibilities

• Leading projects from conception through to handover, ensuring timely and smooth delivery
• Implementing and monitoring Health, Safety and wellbeing policies, engaging with your team and supply chain partners
• Managing programme ownership and liaising with clients to ensure high standards of customer service
• Supporting the selection of supply chain partners based on technical and commercial judgement
• Taking P&L responsibility for projects in your portfolio, delivering and enhancing margin

Qualifications

• You have a relevant degree (or equivalent) and/or demonstrable experience within Water or Utilities
• You have strong knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 contracts and Health & Safety legislation, including CDM regulations
• You are capable of organising yourself and others and communicating clearly with different levels of stakeholder
• You hold a Full driving licence

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

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