Senior Project Manager

The Senior Project Manager is a key leadership role within our Thames Water Capital Delivery function. This role will heavily focus on directing a project team on major improvements to our infrastructure within the Thames Valley region.

You'll be accountable for one or more complex projects from inception to completion, and you’ll guide and develop a multi-disciplined team to ensure successful delivery to time, cost, and quality commitments.

What you’ll be doing as a Senior Project Manager

• You’ll be a client-side Senior Project Manager responsible for the investment from promoting the business need through solution definition, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and completion.
• Lead, develop and mentor a team of project management professionals.
• Take overall accountability for the project schedule, cost and quality and lead the project team to meet project objectives.
• Establish a project health and safety culture and lead with a health and safety mindset.
• Working collaboratively with our external supply chain and driving contractor performance.
• Support the definition of solutions to meet the project objectives and be responsible for preparing a clear business case and promoting best value proposals for business endorsement.
• Ensure effective liaison with the relevant authorities and internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth running and timely project delivery.
• Contribute to steering project-wide continuous improvement and delivering against stretching targets.
• Commercially manage all contract matters to achieve the optimal outcome for Thames Water.
• Take accountability for compliance throughout the project's lifecycle, preparing and promoting clear business cases to maintain governance, and ultimately overseeing the smooth transition of the project output into the operational business.

Role Location: This role will be based on a hybrid basis at Clearwater Court, Reading. Depending on business needs, you must work on-site and in the office 2-3 days a week.

The successful candidate should be a driver with access to their own transport - this role includes a car allowance of £5,800. As site visits across the Thames Valley region will be required as well as off-site stakeholder meetings and engagement.

What you should bring to the role

To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need are:

• Demonstrable track record of delivering complex projects in the built environment, infrastructure or utility industry and engaging with stakeholders to drive projects and make things happen.
• An engineering or other relevant degree.
• A business administration or project management qualification.
• Experience, aptitude and appetite for line managing a team.
• Demonstrable knowledge in managing the procurement and administration of contracts, including specification preparation, tendering, and tender evaluation processes, with experience in negotiation.
• Demonstrate your capability with risk-based and analytical decision-making and developing project timelines to ensure cadence against key milestones.
• Confidence in speaking to all levels of external and internal stakeholders.

Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring:

• Ideally, experience in the water sector or a similar regulated industry.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary from £67,000 to £88,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service.  (plus bank holidays)
• Car Allowance.
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to both company and individual performance measures and targets.
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• Private Medical Health Care.
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

Find out more about our benefits and perks

Who are we?

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

Learn more about our purpose and values

Working at Thames Water

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.

If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we
can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet.

Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.

We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we’re here to help and support.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.