Delivery Director - Water Services North

Location: Birmingham, Chester, Leeds, Peterborough or Swansea Flexible

Contract Type: Full Time Permanent

The Vacancy

Binnies an RSK Group company is looking for a Delivery Director to join our Water Services North division.

Delivery Director – Water Services North

Location: Birmingham, Chester, Leeds, Peterborough, or Swansea (with flexible and remote working options)

About the Role:

Binnies, part of the RSK Group, is seeking a highly capable and dynamic Delivery Director (or Delivery Manager, depending on experience) to join our growing Water Services North business unit. We are looking for a commercially astute, delivery-focused leader to oversee and grow a portfolio of projects and frameworks across key UK water clients. This is a pivotal leadership role with responsibility for delivery performance, resource planning, strategic direction, and client relationship management. The role will report to the Water Services Director (North) within Binnies’ Water Services Business.

Our Water Services team works across the full project lifecycle, providing consultancy and engineering expertise to the regulated water industry. This role will be central to strengthening our project delivery capability, driving performance and nurturing trusted partnerships with clients such as Severn Trent, United Utilities, Welsh Water, and Anglian Water (@One Alliance) – as well as supporting expansion into new frameworks and emerging markets.

Responsibilities

• Taking a key fee earning position within major projects such as commercial/project management.
• Plan, executes, monitors and controls projects in terms of scope, time, cost, quality, resource, communications, risk procurement and stakeholder management across multiple projects of medium to high complexity
• Contract management across multiple contracts/frameworks
• Ensures project teams deliver projects to the As-Sold financial metrics or better
• Balance the needs of multiple projects across the Regional Projects portfolio.
• Leadership of a team of resources to service a number major projects or frameworks, including strategic growth and direction
• Organise and chair professional client meetings, including business development activities
• Understand the customer’s basic and performance requirements and formulate a scope of work that adds value for our customers and Binnies
• Assess the technical and commercial risk of projects
• Lead project pursuits and bids as Bid Manager or Bid Director and create and review proposals and costings for new oppourtunites

Attributes

The role would be suitable for an individual with a proven track record in the successful delivery of water projects. You should possess and be able to demonstrate the following qualifications, skills and knowledge:

• Professional qualification in an engineering discipline
• Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) discipline
• Proven ability to plan, execute, monitor, control and direct projects in terms of scope, time, cost, quality, resource, communications, risk, procurement and stakeholder management
• Leadership skills to manage project teams and create positive change
• Ability to work under time pressure and balance multiple priorities
• Proactive and methodical approach to problem solving as an individual and as part of a team with a desire to find a solution
• Demonstrated customer-facing success in project delivery and business development
• Collaborative individual that effectively builds teams
• Liaison with internal and external clients to develop relationships across the business
• Excellent communicator with staff, clients, joint venture partners and stakeholders
• Understanding of consultancy commercial models
• Be driven to develop and improve your skills and advance your career.
• Flexible working, including, if desired, a mixture of office and remote working, nine-day fortnights arrangements.
• Pension.
• Private Medical Healthcare.
• Life Assurance.
• Group Income Protection.

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About Us

We develop intelligent solutions using our award-winning integrated planning and design approach to deliver functional infrastructure and lasting environmental and social legacies. This is backed by a culture that has stayed true since our foundation over 100 years ago. We create new possibilities for humanity through our innovative approach to delivery.

Together with our clients, we are always striving to find a smarter way to deliver projects. From providing low carbon, sustainable and resilient water solutions, flood alleviation and environment services, to connecting people with insights and data. Our business exists to improve the quality of life for our local communities today and for generations to come.

Binnies is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.

At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.

Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's people-first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.

If you're passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?

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