Capital Delivery Programme Manager

Capital Delivery Programme Manager

Working hours Full time 37 hours per week (flexible working arrangements including part time will be considered)

Permanent

Salary up to £70,000 plus Car Allowance + Bonus

Location hybrid working with office location at Pity Me, Durham

Are you passionate about caring for the environment? We have an exciting opportunity to join our Asset Directorate as a Capital Delivery Programme Manager, working with colleagues to lead the successful delivery of multiple projects all of which are aligned to our business plan outcomes.  We’re looking for you to own the optimised delivery plan and achieve maximum levels of benefit realisation within funding parameters, ensuring successful return on capital investment for NWL.

You will have accountability for a Capital Investment Programme of up to c£100m per annum and lead a team of Project Managers to drive efficient and effective delivery.  You will provide effective leadership for the programme, nurturing and sustaining a high-performance teams culture.  You will embed innovation and continuous improvement within your teams, while demonstrating delivery of efficiency, best practice, rigorous application of programme and project management process and achievement of a high level of predictability of output.

You will own and lead development of the Programme Delivery Plan including planning optimisation and ongoing management and maintenance of the plan throughout the programme lifecycle.  You will be responsible for the delivery route selection and head up procurement driving an integrated delivery approach across internal resources as well as external suppliers and partners.  You will manage substantial contracts, or multiple smaller contracts at any stage in the programme lifecycle.  Ultimately, we want to see creativity being used to attain new levels of delivery performance.

We are looking for you to deliver unrivalled customer experience to both internal and external customers, demonstrating effective measurement, monitoring, and reporting.  You will also be managing stakeholder relationships and communication, ensuring stakeholders are well-informed and aligned to the programme.

You will ensure your team and supply partner activities align to company quality standards, satisfy relevant legislative and regulatory requirements, and are carried out safely to ensure everyone goes home safe every day.  You will ensure the team is sufficiently resourced and fully trained to deliver effective and safe design and construction.

About you

If you have the ability and passion to create and deliver a high performing Capital Delivery team, creating an environment where people can thrive and grow, we want to hear from you.

Through influence and integrity, you can build sustainable collaborative relationships across the business and supply chain enabling us to face the most difficult situations in a respectful and impactful way.

You thrive in an environment of accelerating change and uncertainty, are open to question and are curious and proactive in developing new ways of working. You demonstrate positive behaviours & attitudes and a positive learning approach, helping us move capital delivery forward in achieving high levels of professional standards and new levels of performance. 

You can apply critical thinking and complex problem solving identifying creative solutions using all our resources so you and your team can deliver predictable, successful, business and project outcomes.

This is a Safety and Security Critical role and prospective employees must undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made, prior to or within four weeks of their start date.

Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked.

Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, as we believe and strive to be an equal opportunity employer committed in having a diverse community represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.  We have our colleague network groups, including Rainbow Support Network (LGBT+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks too.

About us

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, and that female candidates are less likely to apply if they don’t have the full range of skills, however if you have some of the skills listed, we 'd encourage you to apply.

NWG at a glance:

Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.

We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.

We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.

Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

Our benefits

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues.

Benefits to include, here’s just a few of them:

• Enhanced maternity pay
• Enhanced annual leave with additional special leave for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
• Company pension scheme
• Digital GP
• Award winning wellbeing website
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life assurance
• Qualification loans
• Professional subscription
• Buy and sell annual leave
• Discounts and cashback offers