Head of Capital Delivery

Head of Capital Delivery

Full Time

Permanent

Salary – circa £110K depending on experience

Location – Pity Me, Durham

We have an exciting leadership opportunity for the Head of Capital Delivery within our Assets Directorate, reporting to the Assets Director. You will provide strategic direction and leadership to the Capital Delivery function and act as Managing Director for our collaborative partnership model, The Living Water Enterprise.

You will ensure excellence in delivering large-scale, complex projects and programs, with accountability for managing and continuously improving the delivery efficiency of a capital plan worth around £500M per annum, including the management of enterprise partners. This role involves setting ambitious performance targets for multiple geographically dispersed teams.

Your responsibilities will include managing the resources of the Capital Delivery function—budget, people, and technology—to ensure quality, commerciality and efficiency in project delivery. You will develop and implement resource allocation strategies, monitor usage, and find opportunities for optimization.

As the Managing Director for the Living Water Enterprise, you will build and maintain strong relationships with partners, suppliers, and other stakeholders, ensuring effective governance and performance management. You will drive our values, culture, and mission to deliver high-quality, sustainable, innovative, and affordable solutions for NWL and our customers.

You will also establish effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including other departments within Northumbrian Water, regulatory bodies, alliance supply chain partners, and customers. Collaboration is key to understanding their requirements, anticipating future needs, and incorporating their feedback into project planning and delivery.

About you

We seek a strategic leader with experience driving performance in diverse, geographically dispersed teams. You'll be a strategic thinker who can implement performance improvements based on macro environment analyses.

You should be skilled in managing and influencing stakeholders and have senior leadership experience involving multidisciplinary teams. Experience leading engineering, construction, commercial, project management, and programme management teams, as well as enhancing safety, is essential.

An in-depth understanding of construction processes, technical disciplines in asset creation, operation, and maintenance, and knowledge of regulatory and legislative requirements are critical.

If this sounds like you, we look forward to your application.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.

Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.

We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation. 

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

NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.

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, 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 11%.
• 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.