Senior Programme / Programme Manager

MWH Treatment; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join MWH Treatment as a Programme Manager influencing key projects within the Anglian region. This role offers the chance to lead high-performing teams to deliver significant infrastructure projects while championing sustainability. Experience in engineering or construction is essential for this impactful position fostering a diverse workforce.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Car/car allowance

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Contribution Pension scheme

Health Insurance

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Proven track record in programme management within large infrastructure environments.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams across multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing complex, high-value projects from business case through to delivery.
• Managing risks, interdependencies, resources, and budgets across the full programme lifecycle.
• Driving programme governance and performance reporting.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Commercial awareness

Driving sustainable change

Education

Degree in engineering, construction, or quantity surveying

Job description

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About The Role

We are looking to strengthen our Operations team with a Programme Manager based within the Anglian region with hybrid working available.

As a Programme Manager, you'll lead a diverse portfolio of projects that cut across engineering, process, systems, and people. You'll drive performance, efficiency, and value - ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality.

Key areas of focus:

• Strategic programme planning, benefit realisation, and value optimisation
• Leadership of high-performing teams and project managers
• Stakeholder engagement across partners, suppliers, regulators, and internal teams
• Championing sustainability, digital transformation, and innovation
• Delivering measurable improvements in environmental outcomes, resilience, and customer value

This is a role with genuine scale and purpose. You'll be enabling a sustainable future for millions of people while tackling climate change head-on.

What You'll Be Responsible For

• Overseeing complex, high-value projects from business case through to delivery and benefit tracking
• Managing risks, interdependencies, resources and budgets across the full programme lifecycle
• Leading cross-functional teams, including direct line management of Project Managers
• Driving programme governance and performance reporting
• Creating a culture of continuous improvement, safety, and collaboration
• Building relationships across Anglian Water, the @one Alliance, 3rd parties, and regulators
• Identifying new opportunities and shaping the future roadmap of workstreams

About You

• Degree-qualified background in engineering, construction, or quantity surveying
• Proven track record in programme management within large infrastructure environments
• Strong commercial awareness, leadership experience, and stakeholder influencing skills
• Passion for driving sustainable, measurable change
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams across multiple workstreams
• Ability to develop compelling business cases and track delivery of benefits

Desirable:

• Experience with recycled water or water-sector assets
• Change leadership experience across digital, people or systems programmes
• Familiarity with regulated utilities and capital investment cycles

About Us

MWH Treatment is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1400 staff working across eight regional centres, supporting six long-term water sector frameworks and two recently won frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor but also in joint ventures and alliances.

At MWH Treatment we believe that people matter. We know to build successful, creative teams we need a diverse workforce that can deliver innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential, creating opportunity by inviting, embracing, and celebrating difference, our goal as an employer is to motivate, and develop our employees. By fostering a diverse range of talents and perspectives we ensure we have the breadth of viewpoints, experiences, and skills needed to succeed. Embracing diversity of all kinds enables us to provide a work environment and culture that plays a key role in attracting and retaining the right people with the right skills.

As signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, we have made a promise to support our forces, working with the CTP to help ex veterans find work in the civilian world. We also support Mates in Mind, a charitable programme to improve and promote positive mental health in the workplace. We don't just tick boxes; we live these values every day.

What MWH offer

Packages include -

A competitive salary

Hybrid Working (Jobs needs dependent)

Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)

Contribution Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Health Insurance

Private Medical Insurance

And many more benefits including - cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc