Project Team Manager

We value a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community wishing to join a workforce which embraces difference and welcomes everyone.

We value a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community wishing to join a workforce which embraces difference and welcomes everyone.

As a Project Team Manager (PTM) you will play a key role in managing and supporting a high‑performing technical team. Your responsibilities will include:

• Team Leadership:
  Line management of a technical team, including recruitment, resource planning, onboarding, and inductions.
• Development & Support:
  Providing training, coaching, and mentoring to help your team thrive.
• Programme Performance Oversight:
  Overseeing a portfolio of work within your area, ensuring projects stay on track, plus resolving and/ or escalating issues and implementing corrective measures when needed.
• Collaboration:
  
  Building strong relationships across the department and wider organisation to enable smooth delivery of projects.
• South West Leadership Team:
  Contribute to strategic discussions, help shape regional priorities and join a national Community of Practice.

You’ll create an environment where your high performing team can perform at their best, working collaboratively with customers and partners. You’ll also support project, contract and risk management decisions, and ensure new starters and existing team members receive the training they need.

Strong interpersonal skills are essential, as you’ll be developing a resilient network of relationships with other team leaders in the department and across the organisation to facilitate effective teamwork and successful outcomes.

Everyone that joins us is required to undertake training and participate in incident response duties when the need to respond arises. Having an incident role is an essential part of working for the Environment Agency and an active way to support communities and prevent harm to the environment. Further information on incident response can be found within your candidate pack.

We are Project and Programme Delivery (PPD), creating a better place through excellence in project and programme management. We are part of the Environment Agency’s Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) directorate and are comprised of 80 project delivery professionals working across the South West.

Our team provides the Environment Agency with effective project and programme management, managing projects throughout their lifecycle, delivering flood risk management, environmental improvements and shared ownership with local communities.

Experience/skills required

• A degree (or equivalent experience) in an engineering, geography, business/project management related discipline, ideally with chartered membership of a professional body
• Significant experience line managing a team, ideally within engineering/construction and/or flood & coastal risk management
• Technical knowledge in order to manage a technical team who will be overseeing delivery of hydrology, river modelling, feasibility assessment, asset management
• A track record for delivering results through others in a challenging environment via a technical team
• The ability to mentor/support teams in the delivery of their work
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills to create a collaborative environment to deliver the organisation’s strategic ambitions

• Training in HR/business management
• Training in project management & health and safety
• Training in contract strategy/contract management,

Benefits include generous pension provision, 2 environmental volunteering days per year, access to our Employee Assistance Programme and annual leave…