Water Delivery Manager (Engineering and Design)

With the current and anticipated workload across our water sector projects increasing, additional management resource is needed within the team for effective project delivery, manage client expectations, and protect the quality of our service. Due to this continued growth and success, an additional Delivery Manager is sought for the Water Division of CEL, our multi-disciplinary Engineering Services team who deliver engineering designs for a number of Water Authorities across England through its AMP8 programme with a pipeline of work planned across the upcoming AMP9 investment plan.

As a Water Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for heading up the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering services across a vast number of project sites and frameworks within a regional area.

Leading by example, displaying the Company’s values and behaviours, and demonstrating a commitment to the highest standards of safe and ethical behaviour, to ensure safe and reliable operations and client satisfaction.

Ensuring that personal and corporate compliance with Health and Safety policy including company policy, relevant legislation, company and client’s requirements for Health, Safety and Environmental matters and to work in such a manner not to cause personal harm or injury to fellow workers, client and sub-contractors’ employees or the environment.

You will work with Engineering Discipline Leads to shape value propositions and be accountable for the successful delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering services across Costain’s portfolio of Water projects within their area through appropriate deployment of people, processes and systems. 

Depending on your location, this hybrid role will be based out of our London or Manchester office, office attendance typically 3 days per work with a blended approach to remote working to promote well being.

As a Water Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for collaborating with the Engineering Services Water Sector Lead and Water Sector teams to gain insight of the engineering services pipeline within their area and maximise opportunities for internal delivery of engineering services. Must accurately forecast future resource requirements across multiple disciplines to achieve successful delivery and inform recruitment to meet growing demand. Expected to ensure the collective team skillsets and deployed resources accurately align with current and future project demands and complexity.

Leading experienced engineers, you will be responsible for leading the successful delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering services across Water projects and contracts within their assigned area and frameworks, managing teams of Project Engineering Managers with individual project responsibility to ensure optimal operation of the Water engineering delivery teams.

You will ensure scope and service requirements, budgets and programmes are clearly defined and adhered to.

You will be responsible for monitoring progress against budget and programme and clear reporting of this to senior management, sectors and clients.  

Key Responsibilities

• You will work with Engineering Discipline managers to ensure the delivery of technically compliant and quality-controlled designs which meet scope requirements, ensuring all the necessary technical and regulatory assurance activities have been undertaken across the program lifecycle.

• Input into the development, management and maintenance of corporate technical management systems, including digital integration. Expected to proactively assist in resolving complex technical and delivery issues where identified.

• Support Engineering Services Sector Lead to collaborate strategically with Framework Directors to forecast service demand and proactively identify early client opportunities, coordinating the in-house engineering contribution to develop best in class value propositions and winning bids.

• Identify and monitor engineering budgets and resource requirements for tender activities and ensure compliance with all internal governance processes. 

• Facilitate the capturing and clear communication of technical risks and opportunities to all stakeholders.

• Oversee the effective management of design change, applying a systematic challenge to minimise unnecessary scope variation.

• Act as a visible leader in developing a design delivery culture that emphasises ownership and accountability.

• Embed a structured approach to lessons learned and apply continuous improvement principles to all aspects of engineering services.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• A background in managing the delivery of engineering services on complex projects across the programme lifecycle within the UK Water sector
• Experience in successfully managing the delivery of complex engineering scopes to budget and programme, and effective change management
• A background in managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams, responsible for managing workload, resource demand and skillsets
• Significant UK engineering design experience within respective engineering discipline 
• Be an authority in multiple design and construction systems and process models (e.g. plan of work) 
• Experienced technical manager capable of reviewing technical quality and compliance of design deliverables; understanding of key technical concepts across a range of engineering design disciplines (e.g. civil, mechanical, process)
• Experience setting up / running design, assurance and reporting process on large projects
• Understanding of Water sector clients, challenges, opportunities and procurement / contract strategies

Desirable

• Experience setting up, leading or operating other aspects of project engineering delivery such as design workflows, information management systems, quality controls 

Qualifications

A Degree in an engineering or environmental science discipline with a background in project management

Professional Development

The successful candidate will be working at relevant professional qualifications and certifications, such as:

• Engineering Council professional registration towards IEng or CEng, in association with relevant professional institution.
• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ) or equivalent project management training.
• Development in project controls, risk management and commercial management.
• Water-industry technical and regulatory training.
• Internal technical and project management training.