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Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Location: Durrington or Falmer – Hybrid Working with occasional site visits Salary: up to £75,000 depending on skills and experience

Are you a strategic leader with a passion for driving impactful change? Southern Water is seeking a dynamic Senior Project Manager to spearhead the delivery of high-profile projects and programs that shape the future of wastewater services and Capital Delivery. This is a unique opportunity to lead multidisciplinary teams, manage complex projects, and ensure that Southern Water continues to provide reliable and sustainable services to millions of customers.

Job Overview

The Senior Project Manager will be part of Capital delivery which involves the planning, management, and execution of large-scale infrastructure projects aimed at improving and maintaining water and wastewater services across the Southern Water region. This process is critical to ensuring that we can meet regulatory requirements, deliver reliable services to customers, and support environmental sustainability.

Responsibilities will include:

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Project Oversight: Plan, direct, and manage design and construction programs to achieve business goals within schedule and budget.

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Team Leadership: Provide direction and motivation to a team of professionals, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

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Risk Management: Implement and oversee risk management strategies to mitigate potential issues and ensure project success.

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Stakeholder Management: Engage with a diverse range of stakeholders, including customers, operations, and delivery partners, to ensure seamless project execution.

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Financial & Performance Reporting: Monitor project performance, and financial forecasting, and ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements

About You

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Experience: Extensive experience in infrastructure program and project delivery, particularly in the water or utilities industry.

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Experience: Proven experience of designing and building of contracts.

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Leadership: Proven ability to lead and manage multidisciplinary teams, with strong delegation and problem-solving skills.

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Qualifications: Degree in Science, Engineering, or Management (or equivalent experience). Chartered status or working towards it is highly desirable.

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Certifications: APM Project Professional Qualification, Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner, and NEC for Project Managers.

Package

This role will be full-time Monday to Friday 37 hours a week.

We are offering a salary of up to £75,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:

• Company and performance-related bonus

• Generous pension up to 11% company contribution

• 25 days annual leave

• Life assurance equal to 4x salary

• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)

• Health Cash Plan

• Full funded eye tests

• Two paid volunteering days a year

• Occupational health service

• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers

• Digital GP service

• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications

• Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options

• Cycle to work scheme

• Private medical insurance (Senior Grades only)

Join our Capital Delivery team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

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Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered