Project Manager - Water

Our Infrastructure Project Delivery Practice is looking for Project Managers to support the delivery of capital investment programmes for major UK water companies, including opportunities across South East Water and Anglian Water programmes.

You will work within integrated client and multidisciplinary teams to manage projects across the full delivery lifecycle, from feasibility and design through construction, commissioning and handover. Projects may include water and wastewater treatment, networks, pipelines, pumping stations, storage, resilience and environmental improvement schemes. You will coordinate scope, programme, cost, risk, quality and stakeholders, helping our clients deliver safe, sustainable and measurable outcomes for customers, communities and the environment.

• Lead the delivery of water infrastructure projects or defined work packages from initiation through design, construction, commissioning and handover.
• Establish clear project objectives, scope, delivery strategy and success measures with the client and Project Director.
• Manage programme, cost, risk, opportunity, change, quality and project interfaces.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, including engineering, environmental, commercial, planning, digital and construction specialists.
• Administer NEC3 or NEC4 contracts, including early warnings, compensation events, programme acceptance and contractual communications.
• Maintain effective governance, reporting and assurance in line with client and Atkins Realis requirements.
• Monitor performance against programme, budget, quality, regulatory commitments and agreed KPIs.
• Build productive relationships with water company clients, delivery partners, contractors, regulators and other stakeholders.
• Plan work around operational assets, access constraints, outages, commissioning and handover requirements.
• Promote health, safety, environmental protection and wellbeing throughout project delivery.
• Identify delivery risks early and lead proportionate mitigation and recovery actions.
• Support continuous improvement, lessons learned and the effective use of digital tools and data.
• Coach and support junior members of the project team.
• Regular travel to client offices and operational sites across the South East and East of England will be required.
• Some South East Water assignments may require attendance at the client office in Snodland for two to three days each week.

About you

• Relevant years of project delivery experience, including experience in the UK water sector.
• Experience managing projects or substantial work packages within water infrastructure, utilities, engineering or construction.
• Practical experience of NEC3 or NEC4 contracts, including early warnings, compensation events, change control and programme requirements.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and delivering against time, cost, quality and safety objectives.
• A practical understanding of project controls, including programme, cost, forecasting, risk, change and performance reporting.
• Experience building effective relationships with clients, contractors and delivery partners.
• Commercial awareness and the confidence to identify, manage and escalation delivery or contractual risks.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to present project information to different audiences.
• A collaborative leadership style and the ability to take ownership in a client-facing environment.
• An appropriate project management, engineering, construction or related qualification, or equivalent experience.
• A valid UK driving licence and the ability to travel to client offices and operational sites when required.

• Formal NEC3 or NEC4 accreditation.
• Experience delivering projects for South East Water,…