County Environmental Delivery Lead

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County Environmental Delivery Lead

Full time – Warrington / Cumbria (Hybrid – 3 days a week)

Competitive Salary + Annual Bonus

Drive Environmental Performance. Deliver Meaningful Change. Protect the North West.

At United Utilities, our purpose is simple: to deliver great water for a stronger, greener and healthier North West of England.

With environmental performance higher on the agenda than ever before, we’re looking for experienced and driven County Environmental Delivery Leads based in Warrington and Cumbria to play a critical role in delivering environmental improvements across our operations. This is more than project management. It’s an opportunity to lead change, influence senior stakeholders, improve compliance, and leave a lasting environmental legacy across your county.

If you’re passionate about turning insight into action, thrive in complex environments, and enjoy delivering measurable outcomes through collaboration and leadership, we’d love to hear from you.

At UU, you’ll be part of a FTSE 100 organisation that combines a strong sense of purpose with the scale to make a genuine impact.

We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, bring their whole selves to work and contribute to delivering a better future for our customers, communities and environment.

You’ll join a collaborative and supportive culture that values innovation, continuous improvement and professional growth.

As a County Environmental Delivery Lead, you’ll be a key member of the Environmental Delivery Team, leading environmental improvement programmes within your county and helping drive performance across the wider region.

You’ll take ownership of a portfolio of environmental remediation projects, ensuring they are delivered safely, efficiently and effectively, while working closely with operational teams to embed sustainable improvements and strengthen environmental compliance.

This is a highly visible role where you’ll engage with everyone from operational teams and senior leaders through to regulators, local authorities and external partners.

Most importantly, you’ll turn environmental insight into meaningful action, leading multidisciplinary teams to identify root causes, solve problems and deliver lasting improvements across Water and Wastewater Operations.

• Lead a portfolio of environmental remediation projects and improvement initiatives across your county.

• Develop and maintain project management plans, ensuring delivery against timescales, budgets and quality expectations.

• Drive rapid improvement programmes that deliver measurable environmental outcomes.

• Create sustainable solutions that move sites from reactive to proactive environmental management.

• Embed controls, ownership and best practice within operational teams.

• Build strong partnerships with county leadership teams and operational stakeholders.
• Engage effectively with regulators, local authorities, contractors and external partners.

• Present programme progress and performance updates to senior leaders, governance groups and executive stakeholders.

• Provide constructive challenge where necessary to improve outcomes and manage risk.

• Ensure clear communication and escalation of issues affecting programme delivery.

• Support operational teams in achieving and sustaining environmental compliance.

• Identify, manage and escalation risks, issues and change impacts.
• Ensure projects are delivered safely and in accordance with governance and regulatory requirements.
• Drive a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and environmental excellence.

• Develop resource plans with functional leaders to ensure successful delivery of programmes.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across a matrix environment.

• Align business priorities, operational requirements and environmental objectives.

• Track, measure and report benefits realised through environmental improvement initiatives.

We’re looking for an experienced project or programme leader who can combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery.

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