Head of Project Delivery - Wastewater

Exciting Opportunity! Join us at Thames Water as we seek a Head of Project Management to steer our Wastewater project delivery teams in London and surrounding areas. With this role, you'll oversee the safe and successful delivery of above-ground wastewater treatment assets, playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of our projects.
Managing projects up to £500m/year, your influence will drive end-to-end processes and ensure exceptional commercial performance. As you cultivate your team's growth and promote stakeholder collaboration, you'll be instrumental in delivering this vital service to communities. Don't miss this chance to make a meaningful impact.

What you’ll be doing as a Head of Project Delivery - Wastewater

• Developing and delivering an optimised programme to achieve all regulatory, statutory, and internal outputs, deadlines, and targets.
• Delivering successful technical solutions that provide optimal value for money on a capital and whole-life cost basis.
• Performance managing the service providers to ensure out-performance of service levels and value for money.
• Steer a customer-focused culture that is unrelenting in its pursuit of excellence in service delivery to internal and external customers.
• Maintain a robust external stakeholder relationship to protect and enhance Thames Water’s reputation with external customers.
• Managing, guiding, and developing people in a culture of accountability and achievement.
• Guiding team's performance in safe and sustainable delivery of capital projects and their subsequent operation and maintenance.
• Providing assured compliance with statutory obligations and embedding clear indicators.
• Promoting sustainability and delivering carbon reduction targets.
• Delivering sustainable financial out-performance against approved budgets.
• Manage all contract matters commercially to achieve the optimal outcome for Thames Water.
• Establish and continuously promote a proactive health, safety & environment culture across Thames Water and our service providers.

Hybrid – Maple Lodge/Hampton Coal Wharf you will be required in the office as and when the business requires you to.

36 hours a week, Monday to Friday.

What you should bring to the role

• Demonstrable knowledge of the delivery of complex capital projects and delivery at a senior level.
• Be confident in managing big teams and the overall performance and behaviours of project management teams with a mix of contractors and permanent employees.
• Hold an understanding of contractual relationships and commercial contract systems like NEC /JCT.
• Be educated to a degree level with further professional/leadership qualifications or have outstanding role-specific background.
• Be confident in channelling all levels of internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to take on management briefs in different functions and businesses and direct through taxing periods, focusing on improving business performance.
• Proven continuous improvement capability.
• Strive to achieve stretch targets with a desire to exceed expectations continually.
• Have a positive, objective, calm and analytical approach to challenges and risk decisions.
• Be adaptable to changes in environments and levels of support always required.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary between £87,100- £95,000 per annum, depending on the skills and experience of the successful candidate.
• Car allowance of £5.800 per annum
• 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
• Annual Bonus.
• Private Medical Health Care.
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
• Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
• Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

Who are we?

At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.

Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.

But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

Working at Thames Water

At Thames Water, we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, and differences that each individual brings.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.

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.