Location
Hybrid – 2/3 days a week on-site or at a Thames Water office location, with flexibility to travel within London and the Thames Valley.

Hours
36 hours a week, Monday to Friday.

Salary
£67,000 to £88,000 per annum.

About the Role
The Senior Project Manager is a key leadership role within Thames Water projects, focusing on leading a team of project managers and directing major improvements to wastewater treatment works. You will be accountable for a portfolio of projects and personally lead a small number of complex above-ground/process projects from inception to completion. This involves guiding and developing a multi-disciplined team to ensure successful delivery to time, cost, and quality commitments.
You will also contribute to the project management community by establishing best practices, supporting the development of project managers and apprentices, and fostering relationships across Thames Water.

Key responsibilities include:
- Leading a team of project managers to deliver a portfolio of projects successfully.
- Ensuring governance compliance and managing internal/external stakeholder engagement throughout project lifecycles.
- Supporting solution definition to meet project objectives and overseeing the contract award process.
- Preparing and supporting the development of clear, affordable project business cases that offer value for money.
- Developing effective project delivery strategies to manage key risks and assumptions and securing third-party consents timely.
- Promoting and sustaining Thames Water’s Health & Safety vision of zero incidents, zero harm, and zero compromises.
- Managing and assuring contractor performance to deliver project outcomes on time, within budget, and to quality standards.
- Contributing to continuous improvement within the Thames Valley Delivery team and meeting challenging targets.
- Commercially managing all contract matters to achieve optimal outcomes for Thames Water.

Join us in this challenging role to make a positive impact on the environment and local communities.

Experience
- Proven experience delivering a portfolio of complex projects up to £100m in value.
- Strong knowledge of contract management and negotiation.
- Demonstrated capability in risk-based and analytical decision-making.
- Experience leading health and safety performance to achieve zero incidents, zero harm, and zero compromises.
- Ability to multitask and manage several multi-million pound construction projects.
- Preparedness to travel and work across multiple sites.

About you
- Excellent leadership and management skills across multi-disciplined teams.
- Outstanding presentation and communication skills with an engaging and open approach.
- Business knowledge supported by an engineering or relevant degree and chartered status.
- Post-graduate qualification in business or project management.

Desirable
- Broad utility industry experience, ideally within the Water industry.
- Experience working within a regulated infrastructure environment.

Qualifications
- Engineering or relevant degree with chartered status.
- Post-graduate business or project management qualification.