Capital Delivery Project Manager

**Who are we?**
Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential serviceand have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.
**What you will be doing**
You will be working on a portfolio of projects within the Capital Delivery Programme. We currently have specific Project Management roles in the North, South and Central London area across our Wastewater Treatment portfolio.
This is an important role in supporting the delivery of complex engineering infrastructure projects, which can have an individual value of up to £20M and will provide both environmental and operational benefits. You will work with the Senior Project Managerin leading, developing and building a multi-disciplined project team to ensure the success of the projects and programmes you are involved with.
Your leadership, ownership, accountability and contribution are key. And the success will be measured in how we deliver our projects to the business and how we ensure smooth integration into our operational business as usual.
**Some responsibilities for the role include**:

- Accountability throughout the project lifecycle, governance compliance and internal/external stakeholder engagement leading to the smooth transition into operational business
- Development of project briefs, including supplementary information for the subsequent early contractor involvement phase of the project
- Supporting the development and definition of the tender package(s), including the definition of the scope of works to support the Procurement team through each stage of the tender process ensuring the demanding timescales are met
- Managing the ‘route to consent’ strategy for the project, highlighting programme and project risks relating to consents required, including consideration of any potential ‘early works’
- Managing and assuring the performance of contractors to deliver project outcomes to time, cost and quality
- Management of risk issues and change in a fully transparent manner through effective reporting and escalation
- Contributing to steering project-wide continuous improvement and delivering against stretching targets
- Commercially managing all contract matters to achieve the optimal outcome for Thames Water

**We’re looking for you to:**:

- Have an engineering degree or have significant experience in a similar role
- Have excellent **project management** skills and contractual awareness of project management work
- Be able to demonstrate a strong **health and safety experience and focus**:

- Have experience managing the performance of contractors and suppliers, with the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders
- A proven track record of successfully delivering capital projects
- Strong commercial approach with a good level of contract knowledge
- Proven process improvement design and implementation capability
- Can demonstrate a strong external customer service ethic, measurement of customer satisfaction and a proven track record of delivering improvement for internal and external customers

**What’s in it for you**
This is a challenging, rewarding and exciting role, for which we are looking for proactive and engaging individuals who can steer projects forward. With the help of the team who work alongside you, this role will enable you to forge a career with Thames Waterand make an impact on our long-term ambitions through the successful delivery of our capital investment portfolio.
**Our competitive salary package includes**:

- An excellent contributory pension
- 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service
- Season ticket loans
- Voucher scheme giving you money off in major retail outlets
- Our referral scheme, where you can receive £750 for helping someone get a permanent position within the company
We’re proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles, we are moving to a hybrid approach where we will provideoptions around working from our offices, our operational sites and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and unparalleled benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall DiversityChampion and Disability Confident Leader and we’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
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