Project Manager - Major Infrastructure

Job Description

Salary £70,000 - £85,000, salary depending on skills and experience PermanentPeterborough Office and Home WorkingFull Time / 37 Hours a weekAnglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be in Peterborough.Unique opportunity to play a leading role in working on multi-million pound projects benefiting the environment and securing water supply for our customers! We are looking for a Project Manager who has a passion for delivering projects, has an appetite for challenge and is looking to further grow their career within regional-scale infrastructure development.At Anglian Water we are working to meet tomorrows challenges today, by planning and delivering significant infrastructure for our region to address future challenges such as securing water supply for future generations, reaching net zero, adapting to climatechange and protecting and enhancing our region for generations to come.To ensure we meet the challenges that our region faces we are planning our largest transformational investment to date, the Strategic Resource Options (SRO) Programme. The SRO Programme is focused on the design, build, finance and operation of two new multi-billion-poundwater reservoir developments; the Fens Reservoir and the Lincolnshire Reservoir. The programme needs to secure planning approval for these schemes as Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects via the Development Consent Order (DCO) route as well as establishthe delivery stage procurement of future licensed regulated entities (known as Infrastructure Providers).Each reservoir system has a regional presence being made up of 4 principal assets: i) upstream transfers (open channel/piped water transfers to feed the reservoir); ii) the main reservoir (including exploring wider benefits); iii) water treatment (potentiallyincluding INNS and water conditioning); and, iv) downstream transfers (to multiple drop-off points). The Project Manager will be leading on one or more assets and driving a large and diverse resource base of internal and supply-chain partners, (growing tocirca 250 people per reservoir over time) , through the design development process and with an initial focus on securing development consent. The role operates within a matrix structure with functional and specialist/expert support, and reporting into theSenior Programme Managers for Lincolnshire and Fens Reservoirs.What youll be doing:

• Leading the development phase of the asset(s) by managing output deliverables to achieve planning consent, including the delivery of site surveys and ground investigations.
• Supporting the Senior Programme Manager developing and managing the programme budget, ensuring that costs are proactively managed against agreed asset/task budgets.
• Preparing and maintaining master schedule for asset under responsibility, supported by short-medium term lookaheads.
• Supporting contract management and change control processes.
• Defining, managing, and mitigating risks and realising opportunities using a structured Risk & Opportunity framework.
• Supporting regular structured project reviews to ensure the project remains within governance.
• Supporting the preparation of documentation for regulatory gated milestones.
• Supporting the engagement of stakeholders, including non-statutory and statutory consultation events.
• Ensuring delivery teams follow appropriate processes and procedures in order to establish, manage and control the project.
• Engaging project delivery support from relevant functions across Major Infrastructure, including Commercial and PMO.

As a valued employee, youll be entitled to:

• Full private healthcare with no excess
• 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
• Competitive pension scheme - we double-match your contributions up to 6%
• Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
• Bonus Scheme
• Car cash allowance

What does it take to be a Project Manager - Major Infrastructure

• Project management experience in complex infrastructure development and delivery (and/or large-scale promotion and delivery of major design & build schemes)
• Major infrastructure project consenting experience
• Experience of managing multi-discipline, multi-organisation blended delivery teams
• Experience of managing multiple stakeholder groups - internal and external
• Professionally qualified and experienced - for example within a relevant recognised engineering, planning and/or project management institution
• Water sector or major earthworks experience

Why Anglian WaterAnglian Water is not your typical water company. What we do really matters. Water is the lifeblood of our world and were proud of the difference we make. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do!If youre passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference then wed love to hear from you.Closing date: 16/01/24#loveeverydrop