Senior Project Manager - Wastewater

Southern Water; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead high-impact design and construction programs within the wastewater sector. This role offers a unique opportunity to oversee a substantial budget and drive performance across major infrastructure projects. You'll be at the forefront of ensuring compliance with health, safety, and quality standards while managing stakeholder relationships. Join a forward-thinking company that values career progression and development opportunities, where your contributions will directly impact the community and environment. If you're ready to take on a leadership role in a dynamic setting, this is the place for you.

Benefits

Company and performance-related bonus

Generous pension up to 11% company contribution

25 days annual leave

Life assurance equal to 4x salary

Salary sacrifice electric car scheme

Health Cash Plan

Full funded eye tests

Two paid volunteering days a year

Occupational health service

Discounts with over 800 popular retailers

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in infrastructure program and project delivery.
• Proven ability to lead and manage multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage and direct multiple programmes of work within wastewater capital delivery.
• Ensure projects meet developer requirements and compliance standards.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

Leadership

Continuous Improvement

Education

Degree in Science, Engineering, or Management

Tools

APM Project Professional Qualification

Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner

NEC for Project Managers

Job description

Closing Date

2025-05-12

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Location: Falmer or Chatham – Hybrid Working with regular site visits across the Southern Water Patch.

Salary: up to £85,000 depending on skills and experience

Are you ready to take on a key leadership role in the infrastructure and wastewater sector? We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to oversee high-impact design and construction programmes within the Wastewater Network Developer Service Delivery team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to drive the performance and efficiency of major infrastructure projects, delivering outcomes aligned with our strategic goals.

Job Overview

As a Senior Project Manager, you'll be responsible for managing and directing multiple programmes of work within wastewater capital delivery and developer services team, with an overall budget of £100-200m across a 5-year AMP cycle. You will play a key role in ensuring projects meet developer requirements as well as other projects associated with network capital maintenance requirements and the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) and Outcome Delivery Incentive (ODI) outcomes, while managing complex, strategic, and tactical growth and maintenance schemes.

Responsibilities Will Include

• Lead the day-to-day management of the Wastewater Network Developer Service Delivery team, ensuring projects are completed on schedule and within budget.
• Provide leadership to the Wastewater Capital Delivery teams responsible for network growth and maintenance.
• Drive continuous improvement in programme delivery, ensuring compliance with health, safety, and quality standards.
• Manage stakeholder relationships, ensuring clear communication and collaboration throughout the project lifecycle.
• Oversee the financial forecasting, risk management, and performance reporting of major infrastructure projects.
  
  

About You

• Experience: Extensive experience in infrastructure program and project delivery, particularly in the water or utilities industry.
• Experience: Proven experience of designing and building of contracts.
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead and manage multidisciplinary teams, with strong delegation and problem-solving skills.
• Qualifications: Degree in Science, Engineering, or Management (or equivalent experience). Chartered status or working towards it is highly desirable.
• Certifications: APM Project Professional Qualification, Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner, and NEC for Project Managers.
  
  

Package

This role will be full-time Monday to Friday 37 hours a week.

Benefits

We are offering a salary of up to £85,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:

• Company and performance-related bonus
• Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
• 25 days annual leave
• Life assurance equal to 4x salary
• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
• Health Cash Plan
• Full funded eye tests
• Two paid volunteering days a year
• Occupational health service
• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
• Digital GP service
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
• Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
• Cycle to work scheme
  
  

Join our Capital Delivery team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

Privacy Statement

Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.