Workstream Lead

Salary
- **up to £86,000 depending on experience**
- Location
- **Pity Me, Durham, County Durham**

**About the role**

**Workstream Lead**

**Working hours** _Full time 37 hours per week (flexible working arrangements including part time will be considered)_

**Fixed term contract until December 2025**

**Salary **_up to £86,000 depending on experience _

**Location** _hybrid working with office location at Pity Me, Durham_

**About the role**

We have an exciting opportunity to join our in-house delivery arm Integrated Delivery Services (IDS) team as a Workstream Lead, working with your colleagues to deliver tangible business improvements, that will help us deliver for our customers, communities and the environment.

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) is preparing for AMP (Asset Management Plan)8 (2025-2030), our largest ever 5-year investment programme. We will be investing circa £3Bn in capital projects, and need to prepare our capacity, capability, process, systems, data & people to do so.

The Workstream Lead will lead a grouping of projects and take responsibility for the planning & delivery of each Workstream. This role will include holistic strategy as well as analysis of current approach.

You will help our existing team develop a more detailed scale up strategy, a plan to implement, and then lead the implementation working collaboratively within the IDS workstream of our Transformation programme and across NWG partner functions, in a structured Programmatic approach.

**About you**

If you are great at managing stakeholder relationships and multiple priorities, we want to hear from you.

You will have experience related to organising and managing a programme team to deliver successful outcomes. You will be able to work at pace, managing competing deadlines and work conflicts. You will have experience in risk and issue management providing practical, grounded mitigations to meet the demanding schedule.

You will have experience of scaling construction output/teams and an understanding of the project lifecycle journey for a D&C entity. You will have experience of working in a Contractor environment and have been involved in / led the process of expanding that, or other, organisations and all the associated requirements, in a robust and formulated manner whilst also maintaining a focus on continued successful delivery of that business through the expansion process.
- This is a Safety or Security Critical Role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test, prior to or within four weeks of their start date. _
- Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked. _
- Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment._

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**About us**

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

**NWG at a glance**:
**Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.**
- We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers._
- We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business._

**Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. **To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

**Our benefits**

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues.

Benefits to include, here’s just a few of them:

- Enhanced maternity pay
- Enhanced annual leave with additional special leave for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
- Company pension scheme
- Digital GP
- Award winning wellbeing website
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Life assurance
- Qualification loans
- Professional subscription
- Buy and sell annual leave
- Discounts and cashback offers

**About us**

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.

**Our values**

Our values describe our main principles, qualities and attributes. They are the guiding