Project Manager - Water

Lanesra Technical Recruitment Ltd; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Excellent benefits

Hybrid working

Job summary

Lanesra Technical Recruitment Ltd is recruiting a Project Manager - Water in Peterborough, offering hybrid working and a salary guide of £65,000–£75,000 plus car/allowance and excellent benefits. The role focuses on delivering water industry projects to time, cost and quality, with CDM compliance and SHE standards.

You will lead a multi-disciplinary team through the full project lifecycle, coordinating with Commercial and Planning to forecast costs and resources, and ensuring safe,

Qualifications

• PM experience delivering multi-disciplinary design and construction projects, preferably in water.
• Degree or equivalent in construction, commercial, or engineering.
• Excellent oral and written communication with clients, stakeholders, end users.
• Delivery-driven with ability to set targets and manage multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensure CDM compliance of each scheme through audits and reviews to promote a Zero-Harm culture.
• Build and maintain a high performing team culture across Engineers to Commercial staff.
• Translate programme strategy into outcomes so teams understand their roles.
• Own full project lifecycle from needs through scoping, construction, handover and warranty issues.
• Collaborate with Commercial and Planning to keep cost/resource forecasts accurate and escalate where needed.
• Oversee promoted solutions ensuring safety, viability and fit-for-purpose delivery.
• Ensure projects meet deliverables and key milestones such as rehearsal and assembly readiness.

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Stakeholder communication

Cost & schedule management

Risk & opportunity management

CDM knowledge

Negotiation (NEC contracts)

Safety awareness

Education

Degree in construction/commercial/engineering

Job description

Position: Project Manager - Water

Location: Peterborough (Hybrid Working)

Salary Guide: £65,000 - £75,000 Plus Car / Allowance and Excellent Benefits

Our client is a Tier 1 D&B Contractor operating predominately in the water industry, who are delivering a significant proportion of Anglian Waters AMP8 programme of clean and wastewater non-infrastructure projects.

Our client is looking to strengthen their delivery team with a Project Manager where you'll manage a team and oversee the development of solutions to ensure multiple projects are completed on time, to quality, water industry and safety standards whilst in line with legislation and processes.

Key responsibilities:

• Assure CDM compliance of each scheme through the TOTEX Delivery Process and through a series of audits, checks and peer reviews to champion a 'Zero- Harm' culture
• Create and maintain a high performing team culture with a range of reports from Engineers to Commercial staff to feel empowered and think creatively to resolve issues
• Translating Programme level strategy into actual outcomes so team members are utilised correctly and fully understand the role they play in achieving success
• Accountable for full project lifecycle from receipt of need through scoping, construction, project handover, formal sign off and managing any warranty issue that arise post-handover
• Work closely with Commercial and Planning teams to ensure cost and resource forecasts are maintained to required levels of accuracy whilst issues are mitigated and/ or escalated to the Integrated Projects Leader for successful resolution
• Oversee the teams' promoted solutions ensuring they are safe, commercially viable and resolve the project requirements whilst being fit for purpose
• Responsible for ensuring each project meets the required deliverables, and key project milestones such as Project Rehearsal and Fit for Assembly

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

• Project Management experience in managing multi-disciplinary design and construction projects, ideally within the water industry
• Degree or equivalent qualification in a construction, commercial, or engineering related discipline.
• Excellent oral and written communicator with the ability to work in close partnership with clients, stakeholders, and end users.
• Must be delivery driven with the ability to set targets and manage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver to time, cost and quality objectives.
• Experience in project delivery
• Strategic, operational, technical and management skills
• Knowledge of Construction Contracts, ideally NEC, with ability to negotiate and administer
• Risk & Opportunity Management experience
• Working knowledge of CDM and construction Health & Safety

Desirable:

• Experience in water and wastewater treatment plants
• Chartered with and engineering, commercial, or construction institution
• NEC Project Manager Accreditation