Water Construction Manager

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive. 

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards.  We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our Water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment. 

Want to be a part of it?

What will you be doing?  

As our Water Construction Manager you’ll be working within Water Non- Infrastructure and infrastructure teams to manage the Health, Safety, Environmental and Sustainability with responsibility for CDM for managing compliance for all delivered construction work on our Anglian Water Contract.

Whilst being primarily focussed on managing construction delivery, you’ll always adopt a wider pan Alliance view, modelling appropriate Alliancing behaviours and leadership skills within integrated teams.  

By managing your local construction delivery team to ensure all construction activities are provided in compliance with the scheme deliverables, you’ll drive a culture of zero accidents and zero defects to meet our Delivery Milestones to provide the best service to our customers. 

Key responsibilities:  

• Lead and manage site construction teams within designated portfolios to deliver projects within approved budget and to an agreed time frame; facilitate project construction kick off meeting and lead health checks
  
• Responsible for the performance of tier 2 suppliers in relation to Safety, Time and Quality including approving RAMS ensuring they are appropriate and adequate
  
• Take the lead with Constructability Reviews, Project Rehearsal and Fit for enabling sign-off which drives outperformance and innovation where possible
• Drive a focus on zero waste and reducing embodied carbon within construction activities 
• Ensure that the site teams are raising the relevant contractual and commercial notices to the rest of the Project Team in a timely manner Work with the Lead Construction Manager to establish long term and short term resource needs (labour, plant and materials) 
• Ensure full H&S compliance is achieved where the team feel safe everyday, and have the confidence and autonomy to raise safety concerns 
• Look to implement a blend of standard products and innovation techniques which will maintain our position as industry-leaders

You’ll demonstrate excellent communication skills and will be performance driven, with proven experience of managing multiple stakeholder groups both internal and external to the organisation.   

Within the Anglian Water contract, we collaborate with a number of alliance partners to provide the best water and water recycling services across the region by maintaining our existing assets and undertaking new projects to safeguard future water supplies.  

 

Playing a key part in our drive to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop as a partner within the Integrated Operational Solutions (IOS) Framework. We work together with Anglian Water to concentrate on solutions across the clean water asset base, typically totalling £20-25m per year.  

 

With hundreds of projects across the region and the need to deliver customer satisfaction within the water industry at the highest it has ever been, how we manage and execute projects has never been under as much scrutiny as now.  

What you’ll bring 

• Have you got proven experience in managing operational resources in a fast-paced Non-Infrastructure and infrastructure environment?
• Do you hold a HNC/Degree in or Construction Management?
• Have you got experience in dealing with large structures in the Water industry? This is essential.  
• Do you have a valid UK driving licence?
• Do you hold SMSTS and a NEBOSH Construction Certificate? This is required due to the nature of the role.
• Have you got a CSCS card (Black)

Are you someone who is able to inspire and lead a team, you’ll encourage and support groups and individuals to achieve critical tasks and outcomes with the ability to adopt a can-do attitude and willingness to be hands on if required to achieve the deliverables. You’ll be able to operate at all levels to suit need and the situation with the ability to manage conflicting demands.  

 

What’s in it for you?   We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
  
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you and your family the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• Private Healthcare - family cover
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and