Portfolio Engineering Lead / Programme Engineering Lead

MWH Treatment; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Car allowance

Life Assurance

Health Insurance

Private Medical Insurance

Pension

Job summary

MWH Treatment is seeking a Programme Engineering Lead for AW Major Projects. Based mainly in the Anglian Water region, you will provide leadership for engineering across a portfolio of work, setting strategy and standards, driving delivery, and ensuring safe, compliant, and commercially effective outcomes.

You will coordinate with divisional leads, drive innovation, and maintain accountability for design reviews, risk workshops and asset-data requirements across connected platforms.

Qualifications

• Widely experienced engineering professional with leadership and multi-team delivery experience.
• Experience leading geographically dispersed engineering teams on design-and-build schemes.
• Delivery-focused leader able to set targets, budgets and motivate teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering management across the framework and set a clear strategy.
• Coordinate resource demand, deployment and priorities with project leads.
• Monitor cost, programme, quality, risk and governance performance and escalate issues.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Planning

Project control

Engineering management

Delivery leadership

Education

Chartered status

Job description

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About The Role

We are looking to strengthen our engineering team with a Programme Engineering Lead / Portfolio Engineering Lead for the AW Major Project. This role will be primarily based out of the Anglian Water region. You will report directly to the Divisional Engineering Lead and as the Programme Engineering Lead for AW Major Projects you will provide visible, accountable leadership for engineering across a portfolio of work, setting strategic direction, professional standards and measurable delivery outcomes in accordance with the established framework strategy. The role leads design development from feasibility through to handover, integrates client, project and discipline teams, and ensures safe, compliant and commercially effective delivery. It also provides the authority to challenge existing approaches, resolve ambiguity and drive improvement and innovation across framework performance, stakeholder engagement and third-party interfaces.

Leadership, organisation and accountability

• 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, as required, in wider business activities outside of the framework.

Resource planning and delivery resilience

• 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.

Governance, risk and performance

• 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.

Client integration and stakeholder management

• 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.

Technical excellence and continuous improvement

• 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.

Office based - Travelling within the UK occasionally and occasional home working.

Requirements

• 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.

Desirable

• Chartered status, or equivalent professional standing.

MWH Treatment is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1400 staff working across eight regional centres, supporting six long-term water sector frameworks and two recently won frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor but also in joint ventures and alliances.

At MWH Treatment we believe that people matter. We know to build successful, creative teams we need a diverse workforce that can deliver innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential, creating opportunity by inviting, embracing, and celebrating difference, our goal as an employer is to motivate, and develop our employees. By fostering a diverse range of talents and perspectives we ensure we have the breadth of viewpoints, experiences, and skills needed to succeed. Embracing diversity of all kinds enables us to provide a work environment and culture that plays a key role in attracting and retaining the right people with the right skills. As signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, we have made a promise to support our forces, working with the CTP to help ex veterans find work in the civilian world. We also support Mates in Mind, a charitable programme to improve and promote positive mental health in the workplace. We don't just tick boxes; we live these values every day.

What MWH offer

• A competitive salary
• Hybrid Working (Jobs needs dependent)
• Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
• Contribution Pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Health Insurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• And many more benefits including cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc