Project Manager

Closing Date

30/04/2025

Job Title: Project Manager – Service Delivery

Location: Sussex - Hybrid (Full Driving licence is essential due to site visit requirement)

Perm/FTC: Permanent

Hours: 37

Salary: Up to £53,000 per annum (including a business needs car)

Job Description

There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!

We are thrilled to share an opening within our service delivery team to recruit for a Project Manager to provide a cost-effective maintenance solutions service to Southern Water’s operational sites and to support the delivery of our core works. You will be responsible for the work life cycle; investigating cost effective options that meet operational needs, defining and communicating scope to contractors, managing the quality cost and timely delivery of solutions, and managing appropriate post-delivery close out.

Your Key Accountabilities Will Include

1. Undertaking all duties, responsibilities and exhibiting the highest regard to health, safety and the environment during project delivery.
2. Managing and controlling contractor activities (H&S, scope of works, costs) through governance, including H&S audits, negotiating on scope and cost, and inspecting a selection of ongoing and completed jobs.
3. Maintenance of budget and cost information for a number of work streams using developed management information and reports – including forecasting final costs and budget vs. cost analysis.
4. Finding innovative solutions to a variety of problems in order to balance the needs of Operations against cost restraints, ensuring essential work is undertaken and ‘gold plating’ is avoided.
5. Ensure that payment applications are assessed against agreed costs and works satisfactorily completed.
6. Visit selected site activities as required to undertake cost verification and relevant meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
7. Focusing on the achievement of targets, milestones, KPIs and supporting in Southern Water’s SIM targets.
8. Building strong and effective working relationships with operational site owners, contractors, other members of the team, other business contacts and key stakeholders.

To be successful in this role, you will have a strong technical/ operational experience with sound knowledge of maintenance project delivery. A good understanding of regulatory and legislative background and a thorough knowledge of contract/ commercial conditions will be essential in this highly pivotal role. You will be confident in delivering cost effective solutions that meet the needs of our Operations and Customers which requires a high degree of liaison between site owners / Customers and contractors and directly leading to the delivery of stretching objectives. In this very autonomous role, your engaging approach to networking, negotiating and influencing skills will lead you to secure high levels of service from contractors ensuring contractor awareness of service and H&S requirements are met in this highly varied role.

It will be essential for you to have Project Management experience within a utility environment with sound Water/ Wastewater operational knowledge. It will be ideal for you to have completed project related qualifications (APM/ Prince 2 and Health & Safety IOSH/ NEBOSH qualifications) or be willing to complete if you are successful in securing this role.