Overview

This is an opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to join our Major Projects team in the Thames Valley. You'll make a positive impact on the environment, helping to modernise and strengthen our networks. Working as part of our team, you will be involved in early-stage governance, pricing and approvals and then managing projects through our Tier 1 Contractors. You will drive the agenda, deliver against timescales and ensure regulatory compliance in this fast-paced environment. Through our partnership with the APM, we can offer support to become a Chartered PM and make a lasting impact on your career and our business. Join us and help build a better, more resilient future for our communities.

What you'll be doing

• Establish and continuously promote a proactive health, safety, and environment culture across complex and high-risk Project portfolios and our service providers.
• Accountability for project delivery and meeting time, cost and quality outputs.
• Develop and deliver an optimised project to achieve all regulatory, statutory, and internal outputs, deadlines, and targets.
• Accountability throughout the project lifecycle, governance compliance, and internal/external stakeholder engagement leading to the smooth transition of the project outcomes into the operational business.
• Actively protecting, managing, and enhancing Thames Water's reputation with external customers and stakeholders.
• Development of project briefs, including supplementary information for the project's subsequent early contractor involvement phase.
• Managing and ensuring the performance of contractors to deliver project outcomes.
• Hybrid - Reading Clearwater Court, 2 days a week, and Thames Water sites along the M4 Corridor. A driver's licence and access to a car for this role is required.

Qualifications

• Be educated to HNC / degree level
• Experience in a relevant operational or project management capacity
• Background in contractual awareness of Project Management work
• Proven track record of managing the performance of third-party organisations
• Set up and regularly implement feedback systems to improve business performance
• Ability to deliver tough messages with empathy

Additional skills

• Ideally, experience in the water sector or a similar regulated industry

Company overview and benefits

We're the UK's largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It's a big job and we've got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

Learn more about our purpose and values. Working at Thames Water offers fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits. Whether you're interested in a role in one of our call centres or science labs, we're looking for people like you with real passion and a burning desire to make things better. If you're looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people's lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we'll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region and our planet. Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family.

Disclaimer: Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Salary and benefits

• Competitive salary from £56,000 to £67,000 per annum, depending on experience
• 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with length of service (plus bank holidays)
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to both company and individual performance measures and targets
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON
• Access to extensive benefits supporting health, wellbeing, and finances, including annual health MOTs, physiotherapy and counselling, Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance