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SPA Project Manager

Anglian Water Services
Full-time
On-site
Peterborough

Join Anglian Water's Strategic Pipeline Alliance as a Project Manager. Location: Flexible/Hybrid from Peterborough office and home Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent Are you detail-oriented, organized, and passionate about contributing to one of the UK’s most ambitious water infrastructure projects? The Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) is searching for a Project Manager to support and enhance our project delivery team. What will you be doing as our new Project Manager? You will be embedded within the SPA Delivery team responsible for working with the highest degree of integrity, to take ownership and accountability for your outputs and be driven to continuously improve. SPA employees should act with the customer’s best interest at heart, be clear and transparent communicators and be passionate about operating in an ethical fashion. Key responsibilities: · Create a project culture that delivers exemplary Safety, Environmental and Quality performance. · Deliver the customer & investor outcomes. · Lead on a production driven delivery approach to ensure processes are embedded and all opportunities for efficiency and continuous improvement are utilised. · Produce a project execution plan and deliver work to the agreed efficiencies by applying Production, Digital transformation and other initiatives. · Develop, implement and apply project controls & robust commercial management to enable projects to be delivered to schedule and budget. · Develop people, behaviours and principles–lead on the transformation needed to work differently. · Ensure that the key deliverables within each stage of the project are being administered to the highest quality. A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours: This job might be for you if you are: · A collaborative leader with proven ability to deliver multi-disciplined work, aligned with SPA strategies in logistics, production, design, assembly, SHEQ, reporting and digital creation. · Can deliver design and build construction products to time, cost, quality, carbon, HSE targets in line with customer and owner outcomes. · Experienced in leading and delivering large scale projects of work including water infrastructure, non-infrastructure or large-scale linear projects, and in leading multi contractor, multi-disciplined teams, unifying them into an industry leading delivery team. · Can demonstrate the ability to outperform against a tight budget through effective programme development, risk and opportunity management and use of production and innovation. · Experience in stakeholder management; including customers, client, site operators, landowners, utility companies and statutory authorities. · Ability to review information, consult with relevant persons and organisations to make agile decisions. Not only do we look for the best talent to join us on our journey, but we also look for individuals to demonstrate key behaviours that align with our values and beliefs. If you are looking for a career opportunity, working in an innovative forward-thinking environment please apply today! Why Join SPA? The Strategic Pipeline Alliance Project is at the exciting delivery stage, with additional projects lined up for AMP8. At SPA, we embrace innovation, digital technology, and collaboration with our partners, including Farrans, MMB, Costain, Jacobs, and Atkins. Together, we’re combating climate change and securing clean water for generations to come. · Flexible Working: We support remote working, part-time hours, and flexible schedules to suit your lifestyle if the role allows. · Location: Our office is in Peterborough, with operational hubs across the project area. · Diversity and Inclusion: SPA is committed to building an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone. Whatever your background, if this role resonates with you, we encourage you to apply. Our Purpose Our mission is simple yet vital: To Make the East of England Resilient to the Effects of Drought. Join us in shaping a sustainable future while being part of a team where everyone can thrive. Ready to Join Us? If you’re passionate about making a meaningful impact and excited to lead in a transformative environment, we’d love to hear from you! SPA is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and recruit based on merit and potential, ensuring every colleague feels a sense of belonging. Take the Next Step If you’re passionate about delivering innovative infrastructure solutions and want to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and be part of Anglian Water’s journey to build a more sustainable, water-secure future. We are looking for talented people to join one of our key projects. The Strategic Pipeline Alliance is creating nearly 500 kilometres of new, interconnecting pipelines to help combat the impact of climate change and keep fresh, clean water flowing across the Anglian Water region. Our aim is to make the region, one of the most rapidly growing in the country, resilient to the risks of drought by securing water supplies for future generations. The new network of pipelines will be longer than HS2, making it one of the largest infrastructure projects for a generation. It is a complex and challenging major infrastructure project. We selected partners that bring a wealth of experience, new mindsets, thinking and innovation for what is an incredibly exciting programme. They are: Costain, Farrans, Jacobs, Mott MacDonald Bentley. We strive to create the right environment to keep Anglian Water at the forefront of the industry and look, in return, for high-performing candidates who demonstrate values that align with ours. Due to the nature of the alliance, and based on the role offered, you will be employed by one of the five partners, joining teams containing some of the most talented and innovative consultants and contractors in the region at a crucial time. You will need to demonstrate: integrity, mental agility, leadership skills, a desire to learn and an open, honest and caring nature. This programme forms a key part of our Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP), which sets out how we will manage the water supplies in our region to meet current and future needs over 25 years. It is a critical, long-term project and construction is due to begin in the summer of 2021 and will take nearly five years to build. We are looking for talented people to join the Strategic Pipeline Alliance one of the biggest infrastructure projects for a generation. It’s an amazing opportunity to become part of an innovative and collaborative organisation. Anglian Water has joined forces with construction and engineering giants Costain, Farrans, Jacobs and Mott MacDonald Bentley as part of a contract worth more than £350 million. We will complete one of the largest strategic water infrastructure projects the UK has ever seen and will create up to 500km of interconnecting pipelines. We provide the very best training and look, in return, for people with integrity, mental agility, leadership skills, a desire to learn and an open, honest and caring nature. The programme forms a key part of Anglian Water’s Water Resources Management Plan which looks 25 years ahead to manage and secure the water resources by safe- guarding against the potential future impacts of water scarcity, climate change and growth, while protecting the environment. If you think you will be a good fit, get in touch. The SPA Alliance. Building Resilience. Building Pipelines. Building career aspirations.

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