Senior Project Manager - Infrastructure

Affinity Water; Hatfield; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Annual bonus

Pension scheme

Wellbeing centre

Volunteer days

Life Assurance

Job summary

Affinity Water is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join the Strategic Projects team in Hatfield, UK. You will lead the development and delivery of major water infrastructure programmes, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to drive delivery against time, cost and quality targets.

You will bring proven experience in delivering complex infrastructure projects, strong programme and risk management skills, and the confidence to influence stakeholders across regulators, delivery partners

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex infrastructure projects, ideally within water, utilities or a regulated environment.
• Strong programme management, risk management and commercial awareness.
• The confidence to challenge, influence and lead multidisciplinary teams to achieve successful outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead major infrastructure projects through the full project lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery against programme, cost and quality objectives.
• Develop strong project management framework with the delivery team to manage consultants, contractors, and delivery partners to drive high performance and project success.
• Build effective relationships across the delivery team and with regulators, operational teams and external stakeholders.

Skills

Programme management

Risk management

Commercial awareness

Stakeholder leadership

Job description

Drive the project management delivery of critical infrastructure projects that will support future water resilience.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to join the Strategic Projects team, leading the development and delivery of our complex, major water infrastructure programmes. You will have experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team, and can bring your experience to support decision making to make this project happen.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead major infrastructure projects through the full project lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery against programme, cost and quality objectives.
• Develop strong project management framework with the delivery team to manage consultants, contractors, and delivery partners to drive high performance and project success.
• Build effective relationships across the delivery team and with regulators, operational teams and external stakeholders.

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience delivering complex infrastructure projects, ideally within water, utilities or a regulated environment.
• Strong programme management, risk management and commercial awareness.
• The confidence to challenge, influence and lead multidisciplinary teams to achieve successful outcomes.

Benefits

• Salary £54,000 - £67,000 dependant on skills and experience
• Level 2 Car allowance of £4,305
• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.
• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.
• Annual leave from 26-30 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.
• A 'Celebration Day' in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.
• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)
• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.
• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.
• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.
• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets and on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme.
• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.
• Life Assurance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we're committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we're not able to offer interviews to all, we'll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

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