Workstream Lead

Workstream Lead

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

Fixed term contract until December 2025

Salary up to £86,000 depending on experience

Location hybrid working with office location at Pity Me, Durham

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity to join our in-house delivery arm Integrated Delivery Services (IDS) team as a Workstream Lead, working with your colleagues to deliver tangible business improvements, that will help us deliver for our customers, communities and the environment.

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) is preparing for AMP (Asset Management Plan)8 (2025-2030), our largest ever 5-year investment programme. We will be investing circa £3Bn in capital projects, and need to prepare our capacity, capability, process, systems, data & people to do so.

The Workstream Lead will lead a grouping of projects and take responsibility for the planning & delivery of each Workstream. This role will include holistic strategy as well as analysis of current approach.

You will help our existing team develop a more detailed scale up strategy, a plan to implement, and then lead the implementation working collaboratively within the IDS workstream of our Transformation programme and across NWG partner functions, in a structured Programmatic  approach.

About you

If you are great at managing stakeholder relationships and multiple priorities, we want to hear from you.

You will have experience related to organising and managing a programme team to deliver successful outcomes. You will be able to work at pace, managing competing deadlines and work conflicts. You will have experience in risk and issue management providing practical, grounded mitigations to meet the demanding schedule.

You will have experience of scaling construction output/teams and an understanding of the project lifecycle journey for a D&C entity.  You will have experience of working in a Contractor environment and have been involved in / led the process of expanding that, or other, organisations and all the associated requirements, in a robust and formulated manner whilst also maintaining a focus on continued successful delivery of that business through the expansion process.

We’re open to candidates from other backgrounds that can bring new ways of working and thinking to our business. We’re interested in candidates with transferrable knowledge and skillsets from other sectors, with a willingness and capability to learn.

This is a Safety or Security Critical Role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test, 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. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:

• Generous holiday entitlement starting at 28 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
• Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 10%.
• Free access to local attractions.
• A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
• Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
• Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
• Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
• Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.