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Southern Water

Senior Project Manager

Southern Water

Senior Project Manager leading multiple wastewater capital projects at Southern Water. Overseeing teams and ensuring timely delivery while managing stakeholder relationships and compliance standards.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeFalmer • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Leading the delivery of multiple projects and sub-programmes within the wastewater capital portfolio
  • Managing and supporting a Capital Delivery team, including four direct reports
  • Driving programme performance, ensuring projects are delivered to time, cost and quality targets
  • Working closely with Strategic Delivery Partners to oversee contractor performance and delivery
  • Building strong relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders
  • Managing financial forecasting, risk, and performance reporting across your programme
  • Driving continuous improvement and ensuring compliance with health, safety and quality standards

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Strong experience delivering large-scale infrastructure or utilities programmes, ideally within wastewater
  • Proven leadership experience managing multidisciplinary teams and delivery partners
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at a senior level
  • Experience managing project performance, including risk, budgets and forecasting
  • In-depth understanding of health & safety and quality requirements in project delivery
  • Degree (or equivalent experience) in Science, Engineering or Management
  • Chartered status (or working towards)
  • Professional certifications such as APM Project Professional Qualification or Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Company and performance-related bonus
  • Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
  • Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
  • Health benefits through a Cash Plan
  • Two paid community volunteering days a year
  • 25 days annual holiday
  • Occupational health service
  • Retail discount app
  • Competitive maternity leave, and flexible return to work options

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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementfinancial forecastingrisk managementperformance reportingbudget managementquality assurancehealth and safety complianceinfrastructure deliveryutilities programme deliverycontinuous improvement
Soft Skills
leadershipstakeholder managementinfluencingteam managementrelationship buildingcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingorganizational skills
Certifications
APM Project Professional QualificationManaging Successful Programmes PractitionerChartered status