Strategic Portfolio Engineering Lead – Major Projects

MWH Treatment; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

MWH Treatment in the Anglian Water region seeks a Programme Engineering Lead to provide strategic engineering leadership across a portfolio of major projects. You will set direction, drive standards and ensure safe, compliant and commercially effective delivery.

The role leads design development from feasibility through to handover, integrates client and discipline teams, and challenges existing approaches to deliver improvement across framework performance and stakeholder interfaces.

Qualifications

• Widely recognised engineering professional with substantial leadership, client, commercial and multi-team delivery experience.
• Experience managing geographically dispersed engineering teams across multidisciplinary water and wastewater design-and-build schemes.
• Delivery-driven leader able to set targets, manage budgets and motivate design teams to achieve time, cost and quality objectives.
• Strong planning, coordination, stakeholder-management and project-control capability.
• Expert knowledge gained as an Engineering Manager, Design Manager or technically focused Operational Manager on design-and-build projects.
• Able to provide calm direction, improve consistency and support teams through delivery pressure.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering management across the assigned framework and set and lead a clear engineering strategy.
• Define the engineering organisation, single points of accountability and a published Responsibility Assignment Matrix.
• Produce affordable solutions to meet client requirements.
• Promote innovative solutions within delivery ensuring appropriate technical and commercial review and sign off as required.
• Liaise with other engineering leads across the business and JV partner and participate in wider business activities outside of the framework.
• Coordinate resource demand with the Divisional Engineering Manager, deployment, workload visibility and delivery priorities with project and discipline leads.
• Maintain a 12-month resource plan covering ramp-up curves, key personnel, succession, contingency, supply chain requirements and regional capacity.
• Monthly engineering financial reporting in line with framework and wider business requirements.
• Monitor engineering cost, programme, quality, risk and governance performance, escalating issues early and linking cost, carbon and programme reporting.
• Establish decision-making routes, delegated authority, technical-risk ownership and alignment with Anglian Water governance.
• Represent Engineering at Framework Leadership Meetings and maintain effective Anglian Water, operational and third-party interfaces.
• Ensure joint design reviews, risk workshops, planning sessions and asset-data requirements are agreed and managed through connected platforms.
• Ensure technical excellence, quality control and compliance across all projects through the governed business management system.
• Manage lessons learned, framework-wide improvements, innovation pipeline, benefits tracking and agreed derogations.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Client management

Budget management

Multi-team delivery

Geographically dispersed teams

Project control

Stakeholder management

Design-and-build experience

Calm direction under pressure

Education

Chartered engineer (or equivalent)

Job description

MWH Treatment in the Anglian Water region seeks a Programme Engineering Lead to provide strategic engineering leadership across a portfolio of major projects. You will set direction, drive standards and ensure safe, compliant and commercially effective delivery.

The role leads design development from feasibility through to handover, integrates client and discipline teams, and challenges existing approaches to deliver improvement across framework performance and stakeholder interfaces.