Senior Project Manager Water/Wastewater

Senior Project Manager

Mixture of office & site based. Main place of work is Wrexham.

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12 Month contract. Possible permanent opportunity.

We are currently looking to recruit for a Senior Project Manager for our client who are a major UK water company prividing clean water to over 100,000 customers across Mid & North Wales. 

The main purpose of the role is to deliver Mains Renewables and Waste Treatment projects within their Capital Delivery Teams.

As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll be responsible for delivering the Treatment and Infra programme including site visits with contractors for scoping, reviewing prices and generating works orders into contract. Once in, contract activities will include coordinating, monitoring and auditing these works on site to ensure compliance with H&S standards and best practices.

You’ll take a lead on supporting to deliver their AMP8 outputs, whether that be like-for-like replacement assets on their sewage pumping stations, treatment works, CSO’s, through to managing multi-million pound quality upgrades, to name a few. All this needs to meet the expectations of regulators and customers, and be to time, on cost and of great quality.  You’ll help drive the programme from design through to completion, engaging with key stakeholders (both internally and externally) along the way.

You’ll be competent in managing the six aspects of a project, i.e. scope, schedule, finance, risk, quality and resources. You`ll drive the project plans, safeguard milestone delivery and also ensure reporting of progress through to the Senior Programme Manager.  You will also provide support and guidance to the Assistant Project Manager’s within the team.

Candidate Requirements

Ideal candidates must have experience working on Water and wastewater projects but if you only have experience within one then this will be fine.

Qualified in a technical engineering discipline and qualified as or working towards chartered engineer status, you will be a forward thinking and innovative senior project manager capable of managing multiple capital engineering and construction works.

You will have experience of managing NEC projects, with a proven track record of cost planning, management of and budgetary responsibility.

You’ll come equipped with team membership, leadership and stakeholder management skills, with a proactive and flexible approach to working, and have excellent planning and organising skills.

You will be a dynamic and collaborative leader with excellent communication and influencing skills. You will have a strong ability to build successful working relationships with internal and external stakeholders from a diverse range of backgrounds, and hold a relentless drive for continuous improvement. You’ll also need the ability to innovate and anticipate unexpected issues and challenges as they arise.

The right skills and experience are important. But if you have the right character, positivity and a caring attitude we want to talk to you too.