Head of Project Delivery

The Head of Project Delivery role offers a unique chance to lead a talented team focused on transforming ageing infrastructure across London and the Home Counties. With an investment of over £2 billion over the next five years, we aim to enhance the area's water and waste networks. You will be responsible for delivering a key strategic program that will positively impact our communities. Managing projects with budgets of £400 million to £750 million per year, your influence will drive processes and ensure exceptional performance. You can make a lasting difference by nurturing your team and fostering stakeholder collaboration. Seize this opportunity!

What you’ll be doing as Head of Project Delivery

• Single point accountability and leadership for delivering a work programme in a defined geographical area. This will be achieved by managing and assuring the performance of contractors to provide project outcomes on time, cost, and quality.
• Driving the development and continuous improvement of the Project Team and Supply Chain, relentlessly striving to deliver enhanced health, safety & environment outcomes, customer delight and superior commercial performance.
• You will manage an extensive portfolio of large-scale projects with approximately half a billion annual expenditures.
• Developing and delivering an optimised programme to achieve all regulatory, statutory and internal outputs, deadlines and targets.
• Sub-programme level outturn cost savings compared against final determination and company budgets.
• Your role will involve collaborating with others to drive efficiency and implement improvements continuously. At the beginning of each project, you will prepare a delivery plan and be accountable for the timely delivery of technical outputs, including Project Briefs for contractors to provide pricing.
• Engaging with external and internal stakeholders will be critical to your responsibilities.
• Strong leadership will foster a culture of accountability, achievement, and performance among team members and the supply chain. Additionally, you will develop, build, and lead the team needed to ensure the success of your projects or programs.

Based on a Hybrid basis – Maple Lodge, 2 -3 days on-site and in-office a week.
36 hours a week.
The ideal candidate will drive and have access to a car, but this role comes with a car allowance.

What you should bring to the role

• Background in a senior capacity in a construction or engineering role.
• Engineering Degree qualified.
• Membership of a relevant professional institution or equivalent.
• Previous leadership and management background in building and developing a team to success in the construction and development of vital infrastructure
• Background in developing and implementing processes and procedures on a large scale, particularly regarding technical quality and continuous improvement.
• Understand, assimilate, and articulate everything in the business strategy and case, as well as provide a brief to ensure it is captured and delivered through the project and engineering solution.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary from £88,000 - £100,000 per annum.
• This role will come with a car allowance of £5.800
• 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
• Annual Bonus.
• Private Medical Health Care.
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
• Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
• Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

Who are we?
This is an exciting opportunity for you to be involved in Thames Water's turnaround plan and help to ensure we can continue to develop a great service to our customers and life’s essential service.
At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.
 
Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.
 
But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

Working at Thames Water
At Thames Water we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complimentary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, background, and differences that each individual brings.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.