Advanced Solutions Lead

To continue with our growth plans for 2026 and beyond we are searching for an Advanced Solutions/Standardised Solutions Lead to join our Proposals team in our Pre‑Construction space/department, based in the Central team for all current Water Frameworks.

Reporting to the Business Development Director/Advanced Solutions Director and forming part of the Pre‑Construction Leadership Team, you will lead the Advanced Solutions effort, comprising multidisciplinary teams working on the development of standardised, sustainable, innovative solutions backed by sound commercial data, supply chain technologies and sound delivery strategies, to respond to client drivers both current and future. This effort will focus on complex, First of a Kind and larger/major projects.

These solutions will form the bedrock of MWHT’s approach to entering agreeable contracts for potable water treatment, sewage treatment and bioresources projects. The standardised solutions will draw upon current best practice from across our Regional Frameworks and be ORC governed, as benchmarks, from which future innovations and advancements can be measured as advancement. They will incorporate standard designs/components, being developed in parallel by Engineering where appropriate.

The standardised solutions will consider delivery methodology including interface management, Modern Methods of Construction, Off Site Construction (DfMA), Digital Modelling/Rehearsals, sustainability, carbon footprint and optimum and competitive solutions on both Capex/Totex costs basis. They will be safe, operable and maintainable.

As Advanced Solutions Lead you will interact frequently with Enterprise/Framework Regional Advanced Solutions/Engineering/Pre‑Construction Leads, garnering the best optioneering and triage processes, and outcomes, that can be reused to help pre‑construction teams work through responses to client Needs Statements influencing our Standardised Solutions where we can.

As part of developing Standardised Solutions, you will interact closely with Northern and Southern Divisional Pre‑Construction Leads, to ensure efforts are prioritised, and hand in hand with the Central Proposals Management/Head of Pre‑Construction and Estimating Leadership Team Members. This will enable coordinated efforts around rapid production of accurate design solutions for tenders and estimates and ensure the most efficient use of valued resources, doing more with less and building the solutions into the overall tender process.

As part of developing the Standardised Solutions you will be expected to work closely with the Procurement Leadership to ensure supply chain engagement, and Business Excellence/Innovation Leadership, as well as Engineering functional leads both at Divisional level and Region/Framework level to ensure consistency and adoption/embedment of the Standardised Solution and its associated delivery strategy and triage/optioneering processes.

Furthermore, development of the interface management and costings will involve consistent engagement with Central Proposals Lead/Head of Pre‑Construction and Estimating. This will ensure risks and client expectations are managed.

You will act as Technical Leadership in the Pre‑construction arena.

• Foster and develop positive client working relationships in the Triage and Optioneering space, that enable efficient identification of optimised standard solutions leading to successful contract agreement.
• Manage Client and stakeholder expectations in relation to time, cost and quality of the production of standard solutions and Advanced Solution activities and subsequent proposals produced by the Central Team, mostly through Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) delivery.
• Accountability for the successful delivery and fulfilment of standardised solutions and Advanced Solutions input into ECI orders, working closely with other departments and the client to communicate progress and facilitate acceptance of proposed solutions.
• Drive effective package negotiations with supply chain and clients, around standardised solutions that meet the technical and organisational governance requirements, as well as having an…