Overview As Senior Project Manager / Sector Lead, you will steer the delivery of water and wastewater automation projects while growing and mentoring a team of Project Managers and Engineers. You’ll shape the sector strategy, build long-term customer relationships, and identify opportunities within AMP programmes. You’ll drive safe, on-time, on-budget project outcomes and push digitalisation to improve asset performance and operational efficiency. This is a leadership role with real influence on growth and direction.
Pay / Benefits - Up to 90,000 p.a. (DOE)
- Bonus
- Pension
- Private Healthcare
- EV Car Scheme
- Share Scheme
Responsibilities - Lead, coach and develop a team of Project Managers and Engineers
- Oversee performance reviews, development plans and training
- Support recruitment and workforce planning within the sector
- Promote safety, wellbeing and environmental responsibility
- Collaborate with the Business Unit Manager and leadership team
- Provide leadership coverage for the BU Manager when required
- Lead successful delivery of automation and control system projects across water/wastewater
- Ensure delivery is safe, on-time, within budget and per specifications
- Oversee project planning, resource allocation, risk management and delivery performance
- Review designs, quotations and technical solutions
- Coordinate resources across multiple projects and teams
- Drive continuous improvement through reviews and lessons learned
- Develop and strengthen relationships with key water industry customers and partners
- Identify opportunities for future projects, upgrades and asset programmes
- Support business development, account management and tender submissions
- Review and support quotations and commercial proposals
- Maintain commercial awareness through contract review and subcontract management
- Ensure NEC contract requirements are met and commercial outcomes are achieved
- Act as technical/sector lead for the Water sector and promote standards and best practices
- Support development and implementation of engineering standards and best practices
- Ensure solutions align with regulations and evolving technology
- Promote innovation and digitalisation aligned to customer goals
- Support consistency and collaboration across project teams
Key requirements - Significant experience in system integration, industrial automation or control systems engineering
- Proven delivery of UK water and wastewater projects
- Strong understanding of PLC, SCADA and telemetry systems
- Demonstrable leadership of project teams and technical resources
- Full project lifecycle experience from concept to commissioning and handover
- Experience preparing and reviewing technical quotations and scopes
- Strong subcontractor, stakeholder and customer management
- Commercial awareness with experience managing contracts, budgets and project profitability
- Experience with NEC3 and/or NEC4 contracts in engineering/utilities projects
- Strong leadership and people management
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement
- Ability to build lasting relationships with clients and suppliers
- PLC, SCADA and telemetry systems
- NEC3 and NEC4 contracts
- Project planning tools
