Location
Chertsey

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Up to £55,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience

About the Role
We are looking for an Environmental Project Manager to join Thames Water on a 12 month contract. The purpose of the role is to drive performance and directly impact one of Thames Water's top three deliverables: pollution reduction. The role aims to create a low-polluting entity where pollution events are infrequent and have minimal environmental impact. This must be achieved alongside maintaining safety and financial performance.

Environmental performance is monitored by regulators through compliance with environmental permits and the number and severity of pollution incidents, which inform the Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA). You will programme manage initiatives delivered by others to ensure pollution events remain minimal. These initiatives are documented in the Pollution Incident Reduction Plan (PIRP) and the turnaround plan.

Key responsibilities include managing projects using both agile and waterfall methodologies based on data-led insights to reduce pollution incidents, evolving reporting for core wastewater teams to support pollution reduction initiatives, bringing benefit measurement into initiatives, liaising with industry counterparts to share knowledge, and providing data and insight to support continuous improvement.

We encourage applicants to attach a cover letter alongside their CV to help us understand your motivation and get to know you better.

What’s in it for you?
- 26 days annual leave per year, increasing to 30 with length of service (plus bank holidays)
- WeCare health and wellbeing services including specialist counselling sessions, 24/7 virtual GP access, fitness programmes, and nutritionist support
- Performance-related pay linked to company targets
- Employee discounts, cashback, and instant vouchers through Benefits on Tap
- Generous paternity leave (4 weeks paid plus 2 weeks unpaid)
- Enhanced maternity leave (26 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay)
- Additional benefits including annual health MOTs, physiotherapy, counselling, Cycle to Work scheme, shopping vouchers, and life assurance

Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, serving over 16 million customers. We are committed to building a better future for our customers, communities, people, and the planet. Join us for a meaningful career with flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits, where you can make a daily difference while helping protect water resources for future generations.

Experience
- Proven project management skills delivering projects through others, including stakeholder management and project governance
- Experience working flexibly across organisations, building and embedding improved ways of working
- Continuous improvement experience focused on business processes
- Leadership experience with the ability to support, motivate, and build strong relationships

About you
- Excellent planning, organisation, and verbal/written communication skills
- Strong financial and commercial acumen to substantiate business cases for change
- Passionate about improving environmental performance
- Ability to analyse, interpret, and communicate data effectively to drive performance
- Ability to positively influence and collaborate with all levels of an organisation to achieve improved business outcomes
- Excellent IT literacy
- Full driving licence required

Qualifications
Not explicitly stated, but relevant project management and environmental experience is implied.