Senior Project Manager – Lincs Reservoir

Overview

As a Senior Project Manager, you lead major workstreams for the Fens or Lincolnshire Reservoir projects within Anglian Water’s nationwide Reservoirs Programme. You’ll steer multi-disciplinary teams, manage design, consents, procurement and delivery milestones, and liaise with regulators and stakeholders. This is a high-impact, strategic role shaping critical water infrastructure and resilience for millions. You’ll work across a nationally significant programme with broad scope and collaboration across partner organisations.

Pay / Benefits

• Private health care
• Life assurance (up to 8x salary)
• Double-matched pension
• 26 days annual leave
• Bonus scheme (up to 15%)
• Flexible benefits to support wellbeing and lifestyle

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Project Managers delivering complex infrastructure packages
• Drive delivery across design, consents, site investigations, procurement, and reference design development
• Ensure progression through RAPID milestones and Development Consent Order requirements
• Collaborate with programme controls, commercial, technical and stakeholder teams to manage performance, risk and governance
• Build relationships with regulators, partners, local authorities and key stakeholders
• Provide leadership, coaching and direction across multi-disciplinary teams and supply chain partners
• Influence programme strategy and continuously improve delivery performance across the Reservoirs Programme
• Oversee delivery of projects through lifecycle from concept to procurement and delivery

Key requirements

• Major project or large infrastructure programme experience
• Experience managing and developing project management teams
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills
• Experience delivering projects through development, design, construction or commissioning phases
• Knowledge of NEC contracts and commercial delivery environments
• Experience operating within complex governance frameworks
• Strong communication, decision-making and leadership capabilities
• Full UK driving licence – travel between sites required
• Experience in water sector, DCO projects, RAPID programmes or other nationally significant infrastructure projects would be advantageous

• leadership
• stakeholder management
• clear communication
• NEC contracts
• Development Consent Order (DCO) processes
• RAPID project delivery

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