Senior Project Manager - Water & Utilities Delivery

Avove Utilities; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Enhanced annual leave

Company pension

Family friendly policies

Job summary

Avove is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our Severn Trent Water Framework. You will be responsible for managing projects from design through to construction and commissioning, bringing strong project management expertise, commercial awareness, and proven leadership experience within the water or utilities sector.

Based in Derby with hybrid working and travel, you will coordinate design and construction teams, manage NEC contracts, and drive delivery on time and within budget while

Qualifications

• Experience delivering large, complex water/utility projects.
• Strong project management leadership and commercial awareness.
• Experience managing NEC contracts and complex interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Lead safe, compliant delivery of Avove projects within the Severn Trent Water Framework.
• Govern project lifecycle: scope, schedule, cost, risk and quality.
• Coordinate design and construction teams across disciplines.
• Manage trenchless crossings and complex interfaces with existing assets.
• Engage landowners, regulators, and local authorities; drive programme certainty.
• Ensure delivery on time and within budget while upholding HSE standards.

Skills

Project management

NEC contracts

Water/utilities sector

Stakeholder engagement

PMQ fundamentals

Job description

Avove is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our Severn Trent Water Framework. You will be responsible for managing projects from design through to construction and commissioning, bringing strong project management expertise, commercial awareness, and proven leadership experience within the water or utilities sector.

Based in Derby with hybrid working and travel, you will coordinate design and construction teams, manage NEC contracts, and drive delivery on time and within budget while