Integrated Controls Manager – PMO

3 weeks ago

Durham, United Kingdom Northumbrian Water Full time

About the role

We’ve an amazing new opportunity to become our new Integrated Controls Manager, reporting into the Head of PMO within our Assets Programme Management Office (PMO). We see this role is essential to realising our National Leader ambitions and we’re looking for a motivated professional with experience in a fast-paced PMO or programme controls environment.

You’ll be responsible for ensuring all projects and programmes are effectively planned, resourced, and managed, along with ensuring that best practice controls are implemented as the foundation for the delivery of Northumbrian Water’s capital programme.

We’re looking for you to take accountability for the continuous improvement of planning, risk, and cost management controls, whilst also providing the necessary rigour and control around our Investment and Benefits Management capability. You’ll act as the PMO’s representative for planning, cost, and risk management, attending and contributing to meetings on behalf of the PMO, along with owning the integrated controls model and ensuring consistency of approach across the delivery programme.

We’re looking for you to contribute to a flexible and resilient PMO in role-modelling collaborative behaviours, shared learning, and supporting routine activities spanning adjacent functions, ensuring optimal performance of the PMO and its members through effective line management, learning and development and leadership. 

About you

We’re looking for you to have proven experience of developing and delivering capital programmes through the application of best practice governance and integrated controls. This should include a strong understanding of investment planning, workforce planning, schedule management, cost estimation, risk management and benefits management.

You’ll have proven experience of line managing high-performing individuals or teams to a successful end, recognising the importance of training, development, safety, and wellbeing.

You’ll have proven stakeholder management skills to influence the project and programme community in adopting best practice and managing relationships across varied disciplines and levels.

We’re looking for you to have proven experience of Microsoft packages, including MS SharePoint, Word, Excel, and tools used to support successful delivery of projects and programmes, information management, and excellent data management. We’re looking for you to have experience of data analysis and information management to support senior level decision making. This includes a keen attention to detail and ability to scrutinise and manipulate data sets.

You’ll have proven experience of managing and responding to complex problems in a fast-paced environment, and proven problem-solving capability, along with experience of delivering outputs as part of a team and collaborating to meet delivery objectives successfully.

If this sounds like you, then we’d love to see your application come through to us.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, as we believe and strive to be an equal opportunity employer committed in having a diverse community represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.

We have our colleague network groups, including Rainbow Support Network (LGBT+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks too.

About Asset Management & PMO

The Assets Directorate understand the health of our assets, invest wisely and maintain them to continue to provide safe, reliable and resilient services to our customers today and in the future.

We have launched an ambitious transformation programme to drive a real step change in how we deliver our capital projects. This requires the development of a high-performing PMO to provide a central controls function delivering impactful performance reporting, estimating, schedule and risk management, and governance. The overarching objective of the transformation programme is to transition from a hybrid PMO consisting of NWL staff and contractor support, to an entirely inhouse model.

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. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:

Generous holiday entitlement starting at 28 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays. Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 10%. Free access to local attractions. A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more. Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members. Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme. Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme. Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.

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.

We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, and that female candidates are less likely to apply if they don’t have the full range of skills, however if you have some of the skills listed, we 'd encourage you to apply.

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

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