Water&Quot; Project Manager - Thames Region

Edge Careers; Lewknor; Sur place; GBP 55 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Working with a very successful andhigh

Excellent bonus scheme

Résumé du poste

Edge Careers is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead Thames Region water infrastructure projects from conception to completion. You will oversee multidisciplinary teams across design, engineering, construction, and handover, ensuring scope, time, cost, and quality targets are met.

You will manage risks, drive value engineering, and maintain strong relationships with clients and stakeholders while ensuring compliance with health, safety, environmental, and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and management skills to motivate teams.
• Excellent organisational, planning, and time management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously without compromising on quality.
• Sound knowledge of the Water industry, particularly M&E disciplines.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to work with senior stakeholders to set and achieve targets.
• Effective negotiation and communication skills, with the ability to build lasting relationships.
• Computer literacy (Microsoft Office, Project).
• Commitment to personal development and continuous improvement.

Responsabilités

• Oversee delivery of projects across design, engineering, construction, handover, and commercial phases.
• Ensure projects meet scope, programme, budget, quality, and customer satisfaction requirements.
• Implement risk and value engineering processes, identifying risks and cost-saving opportunities.
• Lead, motivate, and support internal staff, consultants, and contractors.
• Ensure full compliance with health, safety, environmental, and quality standards.
• Provide project planning advice, recommendations, and progress updates to customers and stakeholders.
• Review and challenge budgets, forecasts, and financial reporting to ensure deliverable approaches.
• Develop and maintain strong customer relationships, regularly reviewing performance.
• Implement management systems and procedures, ensuring compliance with statutory and legal requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement, service excellence, and best practice across projects.
• Manage project costs, ensuring accurate expenditure tracking and resource allocation.
• Review and approve management plans, health and safety plans, and work package plans.
• Support senior management with business planning, performance reviews, and bid development.
• Promote collaborative supplier relationships, monitoring and improving performance.
• Ensure all M&E services and installations are designed, built, and certified to required standards.
• Mentor and motivate project staff, ensuring performance issues are addressed and development supported.

Connaissances

Leadership

Organisational skills

Time management

Multi-project management

Water industry knowledge

Commercial awareness

Negotiation

Communication

Computer literacy

Personal development

Outils

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Project

Description du poste

Project Manager - Thames Region

Would you like to work for an inclusive and collaborative company which is achieving great success?

My client is working closely with long established clients to deliver a range of water infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects. These works are key to ensuring sustainable, high-quality services for communities across the Thames region.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Project Manager to take overall responsibility for the successful delivery of allocated multidisciplinary projects. You will lead projects from conception through to completion, ensuring safe and efficient execution within agreed timescales, budgets, and quality standards. These projects will be located across the Thames Water region.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee delivery of projects across design, engineering, construction, handover, and commercial phases
• Ensure projects meet scope, programme, budget, quality, and customer satisfaction requirements
• Implement risk and value engineering processes, identifying risks and cost‑saving opportunities
• Lead, motivate, and support internal staff, consultants, and contractors
• Ensure full compliance with health, safety, environmental, and quality standards
• Provide project planning advice, recommendations, and progress updates to customers and stakeholders
• Review and challenge budgets, forecasts, and financial reporting to ensure deliverable approaches
• Develop and maintain strong customer relationships, regularly reviewing performance
• Implement management systems and procedures, ensuring compliance with statutory and legal requirements
• Drive continuous improvement, service excellence, and best practice across projects
• Manage project costs, ensuring accurate expenditure tracking and resource allocation
• Review and approve management plans, health and safety plans, and work package plans
• Support senior management with business planning, performance reviews, and bid development
• Promote collaborative supplier relationships, monitoring and improving performance
• Ensure all M&E services and installations are designed, built, and certified to required standards
• Mentor and motivate project staff, ensuring performance issues are addressed and development supported

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

You will be an experienced "Water" Project Manager with a proven track record in delivering Water Treatment projects.

• Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to motivate teams to achieve high standards
• Excellent organisational, planning, and time management skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously without compromising on quality
• Sound knowledge of the Water industry, particularly M&E disciplines
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to work with senior stakeholders to set and achieve targets
• Effective negotiation and communication skills, with the ability to build lasting relationships
• Computer literacy (Microsoft Office, Project)
• Commitment to personal development and continuous improvement

What's in it for you?

Below is a selection of benefits that are available:

• Working with a very successful and highly experienced team
• Family friendly policies and work/life approach
• Excellent promotion opportunities
• Excellent annual bonus scheme

All applicants must be able to provide two references