Assistant Project Manager

Job title: Assistant Project Manager
Ref: 39123
Division: Asset Operations & Capital Delivery
Location: Hybrid - Clearwater Court - RG1 8DB
Contract type: Permanent
Full/Part-time: Full-time
Salary: Competitive salary from £35,000 to £45,000 per annum depending on skills and experience
Job grade: B
Closing date: 06/01/2025

Exciting opportunity alert! Join us as an Assistant Project Manager supporting the project management of a portfolio of projects within the Capital Delivery Programme. As a critical team member, you'll be crucial in delivering a significant programme of engineering infrastructure works valued at over £100m. Your responsibilities will include developing and building business cases, ensuring project success, and guaranteeing delivery to time, cost, and quality commitments.

What you’ll be doing as an Assistant Project Manager:

• Establish and continuously promote a proactive health, safety & environment culture across projects.
• Deliver successful technical solutions that provide optimal value for money on a capital and whole-life cost basis.
• Performance manage the service providers to ensure out-performance of service levels and value for money.
• Lead a customer-focused culture that is unrelenting in its pursuit of excellence in service delivery to internal and external customers.
• Proactively ensure every customer touch point is a positive experience to remember.
• Actively protect, manage, and enhance Thames Water’s reputation to external customers and stakeholders.

This hybrid role is based at Clearwater Court, Reading. You will need to attend both the office and various sites as required for the position and business needs, which may be more than three days a week.

The work schedule is 36 hours a week, Monday to Friday. We are open to full-time, part-time, or job-sharing options.

A driver's license and access to a vehicle are required for this position.

What you should bring to the role:

• Excellent contractual awareness of Project Management work.
• Collaborative approach, good communication with contractors and stakeholders.
• A proven track record of managing the performance of third-party organisations.
• Continuous promotion of proactive health, safety & environment culture.
• Experience in proactive management of project risk.
• A strong customer service ethic, measurement of customer satisfaction and a proven track record of delivering improvement for customers.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary from £35,000 to £45,000 per annum.
• 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
• Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
• Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.
• Opportunity to achieve APM Project Management Qualification.

Who are we?

At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive. Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it. But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We must keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

Working at Thames Water

At Thames Water, we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business. We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, and differences that each individual brings.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.