Project Manager

Sweco

Peterborough

Hybrid

GBP 65,000 - 95,000

Full time

1 hour ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working

Competitive pension contribution

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme

Professional subscriptions paid

Salary sacrifice EV scheme

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Job summary

Sweco in the Anglian Water @one Alliance is seeking a Project Manager to lead project teams, ensure safe, on-time delivery, and meet commercial targets within AMP8. You will drive efficiency, governance, and collaboration across the alliance and industry partners.

You will coordinate with multiple projects, oversee risk management, and ensure compliance with NEC Option C contracts, health and safety standards, and delivering value-driven outcomes.

Qualifications

Extensive experience in the water industry, with knowledge of health & safety, drinking water standards, and CDM.
IOSH qualification and experience with NEC Option C contracts.
Proven ability to manage multiple projects in a performance-driven environment.
Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence decisions.
APMP qualification (desirable) is preferred.

Responsibilities

Leading and developing high-performing teams of engineers and commercial staff, fostering an innovative and collaborative culture.
Ensuring CDM compliance, conducting audits and peer reviews to embed a zero-harm approach.
Translating programme strategy into actionable outcomes, ensuring teams are aligned and resourced correctly.
Managing projects from inception to handover, resolving operational challenges and post-handover warranty issues.
Overseeing cost and resource forecasts, mitigating risks and escalating key issues where required.
Ensuring solutions are safe, commercially viable, and fit for purpose, while delivering value-driven outcomes.
Maintaining project milestones, ensuring key deliverables such as Project Rehearsal and Fit for Assembly are achieved.
Driving collaboration and knowledge sharing across the @one Alliance and industry partners.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

CDM compliance

APMP qualification desirable

Education

APMP qualification (or equivalent)

Job description

About the @one Alliance The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a totally collaborative organisation made up of nine partner companies (Anglian Water, SWECO, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, and Skanska) and an extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

About the @one Alliance

The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a totally collaborative organisation made up of nine partner companies (Anglian Water, SWECO, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, and Skanska) and an extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression. With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer’s expectations will come under greater scrutiny. We need aspiring driven talent to help us achieve our ambitious targets, are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen?

About Sweco

Transforming society together, we’re planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week.

Project Manager, you’ll oversee project teams to ensure solutions are delivered on time, safely, and to the highest quality standards while meeting commercial and regulatory expectations. You’ll drive efficiency, compliance, and collaboration to help us outperform against ambitious AMP8 targets.

Your Key Responsibilities Will Include

Leading and developing high-performing teams of engineers and commercial staff, fostering an innovative and collaborative culture.
Ensuring CDM compliance, conducting audits and peer reviews to embed a zero-harm approach.
Translating programme strategy into actionable outcomes, ensuring teams are aligned and resourced correctly.
Managing projects from inception to handover, resolving operational challenges and post-handover warranty issues.
Overseeing cost and resource forecasts, mitigating risks and escalating key issues where required.
Ensuring solutions are safe, commercially viable, and fit for purpose, while delivering value-driven outcomes.
Maintaining project milestones, ensuring key deliverables such as Project Rehearsal and Fit for Assembly are achieved.
Driving collaboration and knowledge sharing across the @one Alliance and industry partners.

What We’re Looking For

Extensive experience in the water industry, with strong knowledge of health & safety, drinking water standards, and CDM regulations.
IOSH qualification and experience working within a commercial framework, including NEC Option C contracts.
Proven ability to manage multiple projects in a performance-driven environment.
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence decision-making.
Ability to work strategically and delegate effectively, empowering teams to deliver results.
APMP qualification (or equivalent) is desirable.

If you believe you have the skill set required, are keen to join a business with genuine opportunities for career progression, then we’d love to hear from you.

Let’s transform society together at Sweco.

Employee Benefits

Flexible and hybrid working (Flexworks Policy)
Competitive pension contribution
Life Assurance
Private Medical Insurance
Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme
Payment of two relevant professional subscriptions
25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days per year)
Cycle2Work Scheme
Employee Assistance Programme (wellbeing, mental health, financial and work advice)
Employee discounts via Sweco Benefit Select (Faircare)
Salary Sacrifice Electric Vehicle Scheme
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@OneAlliance vision

A Collaborative Alliance, Driving Change. Empowering Us To Set Global Benchmarks And Building a Better Environment For Our Customers. We Strive To Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance.

@OneAlliance Values

To bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop we:

Build trust; Do the right thing; Are always exploring

The Anglian Water @one Alliance. Nine partners, endless opportunities.

Let’s transform society together at Sweco.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

It’s important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.

We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more The Armed Forces Covenant - Our Commitments | Sweco UK.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage Employer which reflects our commitment to fair pay and support for all colleagues.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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