Technical Manager

Here within the @one Alliance we are a totally collaborative organisation made up of our eight partner companies (Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO) and our extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. 

We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.

We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.

With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer’s expectations will come under greater scrutiny.

Are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen? 

Do you have what it takes to transform society?

To ensure suitable designs, resources and engineering outputs are achieved for our Nitrates Schemes we’re looking for a Technical Manager to lead our Water Non-Infrastructure team.

What will you be doing as our new Technical Manager in WNI? 

You will be responsible for creating and developing value-driven solutions that align with our capital investment programme outcomes and effectively manage the delivery of project designs within Water Non-Infrastructure Nitrate Schemes.

You will lead and nurture a dynamic project design team to deliver high-quality outcomes. Pioneer new methodologies focusing on outcome-driven solutions, carbon reduction, and embracing digital innovations and expand professional networks through collaborations with internal and external stakeholders within the @one Alliance.

Key Accountabilities:

Design Management

• Lead and manage engineering design delivery for assigned projects.
• Develop and oversee Engineering Project Plans encompassing scope, schedule, cost, risk, and resources.
• Collaborate with engineering discipline leads to ensure optimal design methodologies and outputs.
• Implement design quality procedures to ensure right-first-time philosophy adherence.
• Manage supplier and subcontractor design input, ensuring integration and alignment with project goals.
• Produce designs prioritizing health & safety, environmental considerations, construction feasibility, and stakeholder needs.

Project Delivery

• Work collaboratively with other project functions to deliver outcomes efficiently.
• Seek opportunities to enhance affordability and value throughout the design process.
• Support project programmes to achieve milestones and drive efficiencies.
• Develop sustainable designs contributing to carbon reduction and natural capital enhancement.
• Contribute to risk management and value-driven outcomes.

Health & Safety

• Ensure compliance with Construction Design & Management (CDM) Regulations, managing design-related health and safety risks.
• Identify and address health, safety, and welfare issues within the team.

People/Team Development

• Provide clear leadership to the project design team, fostering a positive and inclusive environment.
• Manage multi-disciplinary teams, including performance management and mentoring.
• Identify competency gaps and support recruitment and development initiatives.

Transformation

• Cultivate a culture of experimentation, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team.
• Support initiatives to reduce carbon footprint and embrace digital technologies for enhanced project delivery.

A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours….

To join us on the team, you’ll hold an Engineering or equivalent degree (preferrable). You’ll have extensive experience in water-sector assets and capital project delivery preferred. Familiarity with the design and build environment is advantageous.

Able to inspire and lead a team, you’ll be customer focussed in all the activities you undertake. With a strong appreciation of how collaboration can truly unlock complex projects, you’ll be able to assess unique situations and draw upon your technical expertise to make decisive, yet safety conscious, decisions to keep projects on track. Always operating with integrity and accountability, you’ll be able to build rapport and trust amongst your stakeholder and establish yourself and the team across the Alliance. 

If you are looking for the next step in your career, please apply today 

A little bit about your skills, experience, and behaviours…. 

To join us on our exciting and challenging journey for engineering excellence, you’ll be educated to degree level in water/wastewater process science/engineering related subject and have experience of process engineering in water/wastewater and biosolids treatment. 

With strong communication skills, you’ll have excellent stakeholder management skills and champion collaboration to tackle challenges and obstacles which could hinder our objective of outperformance. Demonstrating strong IT skills, you’ll marry your technical and people skills to deliver the best process engineering facility to your stakeholders on a regular basis. 

If you are looking for an opportunity to take the next step in your engineering career with an industry- leading alliance, please apply today 

@One Vision

A collaborative alliance, driving change. Empowering us to set global benchmarks and building a better environment for our customers. We strive to:

Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance.

@One Values

To bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop we:

Build trust; Do the right thing; Are always exploring

To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week.

The Anglian Water @one Alliance. Seven partners, endless opportunities.

Let’s transform society together at Sweco.

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Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

Sweco is committed to enabling all its colleagues to achieve a great balance between work and their other priorities, such as caring responsibilities, leisure activities, further learning or other interests. We offer flexible start and finish times, part time and hybrid working options so that you can flex your hours around your day to day needs.