Project Manager Senior Project Manager, Water

AECOM; England; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global infrastructure consulting firm in the UK is looking for a Project Manager / Senior Project Manager to lead water infrastructure projects. This role offers a flexible hybrid working model and requires strong management and contractual skills, with a degree in engineering preferred. Join a team dedicated to innovation and impactful water programs.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Comprehensive benefits packages

Qualifications

• Must have Chartered Engineer Status or APM registration.
• Experience in project management with budget and schedule accountability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage projects with full accountability for delivery.
• Oversee project contracts to ensure scope, budget, and timelines are met.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across the business.

Skills

Experience in delivering water and wastewater / treatment projects

Strong commercial risk management and contractual skills (e.g., NEC4)

Education

Degree in a related engineering subject or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

Overview

Start here. Grow here.

Are you ready to be part of a team shaping the future of water infrastructure?

Join our innovative and multidisciplinary Water team as a Project Manager / Senior Project Manager based in our growing Basingstoke, Croydon, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, St Albans, Exeter, Bristol or Cardiff offices. You’ll also benefit from our flexible hybrid working model. At AECOM we are leaders in innovation delivering a diverse portfolio of water programs and projects through long‑term partnerships with key clients including major UK water companies like Wessex Water, Welsh Water, South West Water, Thames Water, Severn Trent Water and Tier 1 Contractors.

Responsibilities

Project Manager

• Lead and manage projects with full accountability for successful delivery including budget and schedule.
• Oversee project contracts ensuring they are delivered within scope, budget and timeframes.
• Handle change management by documenting early warnings, preparing variations and negotiating and implementing changes with clients.
• Develop and maintain project timelines, identifying risks, dependencies and required resources.
• Assess and mitigate project risks and opportunities ensuring successful outcomes.
• Manage contracts under various forms such as NEC.
• Ensure quality management processes are followed for all project activities and outputs.
• Engage with stakeholders, managing their interests and influence to achieve project goals.
• Coordinate and manage multidisciplinary teams across the business.
• Oversee subcontractor and supply chain performance to meet project requirements.
• Build strong relationships with clients and cross‑functional team members.
• Lead bid management for design tenders on standalone projects and framework contracts.

Senior Project Manager

• Oversee the work of one or more Project Managers and provide support as required into any of the Project Managers tasks noted above.
• Provide input / support on continuous improvement to and execution of project delivery procedures.
• Drive consistent Project Manager (PM) practices and procedures in alignment with AECOM PM requirements and the Project Delivery System (PDS).
• Depending on regional/project requirements you may also project manage more complex projects of your own in addition to the above.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible.

What we’re looking for

• Experience in delivering water and wastewater / treatment projects.
• Have strong commercial risk management and contractual skills and experience e.g. NEC4.
• A degree or equivalent in a related engineering subject and/or equivalent experience.
• Chartered Engineer Status (or working towards) or APM registration.

Additional Information

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For further information about the role reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Jay Hewitt.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment our public‑ and private‑sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work, using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation benefits and well‑being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global publicly traded firm – access to industry‑leading technology and thinking, and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each person’s potential and will help you reach yours.

We are a Disability‑Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address if you would like to apply through the Disability‑Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work

Remote Work: No

Employment Type

Employment Type: Full‑time

Key Skills

Business Development, Project Management Methodology, Project / Program Management, PMBOK, Waterfall, Wastewater, Construction Management, Project Management Software, Microsoft Project, Budgeting, Contracts

Experience

Experience: years

Vacancy

Vacancy: 1