Project Manager

today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region's health, wellbeing, and prosperity. New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. The The Programme Delivery team are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators. We are currently recruiting for a number of Senior Project Managers who will be accountable to the Capital Delivery Programme Managers and will be working across all programmes of work in Programme Delivery. The focus for the role over the next year will be driving the early start programme of work for our AMP8 (2025 - 2030) capital programme to ensure we are set up to successfully deliver our next 5-year programme. This role will then become part of the AMP8
Capital Delivery Team. The Capital Delivery team consists of Yorkshire Water colleagues, contract partners, sub-contractors and consultants working collaboratively to deliver the majority of the capital programme for the company. Over the next five-year period, we anticipate a programme of work in the region of £ 3 billion of investment covering the whole range of water and wastewater assets. The Senior Project Manager plays a pivotal role in the successful delivery of this portfolio of capital projects. The purpose of the role is to drive delivery of a subprogramme within the capital programme to time, cost and quality, achieving best value outcomes. The role will manage a subprogramme delivering over £100m per year capital investment in our clean and wastewater asset base. Where you fit in: You will be accountable for delivering programmes of work as part of the new AMP8 delivery model and working with Yorkshire Water and external stakeholders across
Water, Waste and our new Alliance. As a Senior Project Manager you will - Lead and inspire a team to deliver a programme of work that supports the business strategy and outcomes across Water, Waste and the Alliance delivery streams. - Develop and coach your team and provide strong leadership across your programme of work. - Work with key stakeholders within Yorkshire Water regarding the implementation of the AMP8 Strategy and AMP8 Programme of work. - Carry out assurance of your programme against business regulatory drivers, health, safety and environmental performance and meeting the Yorkshire Water business plans. - Work closely with the wider Senior Project Manager community to share best practice and delivery new and exciting business improvements. - Feed into the overall AMP8 strategy and workstreams, delivering key objectives within critical timescales. - Drive innovative thinking into the process and providing constructive challenge. - Produce key
documents needed for sign-off by leadership teams. - Work as part of the integrated team in the new Alliance delivery stream. - Manage programmes of work across the Yorkshire Water end to end process to delivery our AMP8 business commitments. - Undertake health and safety leadership visits across your programme of work - Work closely with our delivery partners to delivery success outcomes across our capital programme.

You will be a focused and driven individual who revels in a challenging environment and has a passion for excellence and a can-do attitude. - Great people management skills and be a coach and mentor to your team colleagues, assisting in peer reviews of projects not under your control to support the overall programme needs. - You will demonstrate professionalism and excellent performance and will be an accomplished communicator, negotiator, and presenter. - You must have the ability to work within a partnering environment; form and maintain excellent internal and external working relationships and be able to facilitate, mediate and resolve project issues. You will have a proven track record of project management and planning and financial / budget management. You will have experience of leadership and managing multi-disciplinary teams through the project life cycle, and experience of managing large workloads of multiple projects concurrently. - You
will have considerable knowledge of the construction processes from civils works through to mechanical, electrical and ICA equipment and the logic and technical constraints around each of these areas. - A strong commercial understanding of NEC conditions of contract, as well as programme monitoring and expenditure forecasting skills to ensure robust financial and commercial management. You will have a proven record of budget management and financial performance and understand contract and commercial management. - You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills; including the ability to present and communicate complex information to a wide range of audiences. You must be able to articulate and have proven ability to engage with customers internally and externally, developing and maintaining strong positive business relationships to understand their needs and recognise opportunities.

- You will have a wide level of experience in negotiations and conflict management in a project environment. - You will have had previous experience of leading a team in delivering complex construction projects in a live operational environment or delivering procurement models.

£52,855 - £73,855 dependent on experience, company car lease/allowance scheme, annual bonus, private health care, pension scheme (Up to 10% company contribution) and 25 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer a fantastic benefits package, which includes flexible private health cash plan scheme, retail saving scheme, Online GP Service, Life Insurance and many more.