Senior Project Manager

Helô! We’re Hafren Dyfrdwy, one of the 11 regulated water and wastewater companies in England and Wales. We serve over 100,000 homes and businesses across Mid and North Wales, and our enduring focus is on delivering for our customers, both now and for generations to come.

Employing over 130 people, we’re a local company based in Wrexham and Powys and from providing clean water every time our customers turn on the tap to returning it to rivers even cleaner than we took it, we are proud to take care of one of life’s essentials.

We are passionate about ensuring the future well-being of generations in our region, and within Wales as a whole, and playing our part in supporting on the well-being goals is central to our strategy. There really is something for everyone here.

Our ambitious and innovative projects help to combat the challenges of waste and water infrastructure, flooding and water quality. Be a part of something bringing benefits to our communities, health outcomes and environment.

It could be the biggest challenge of your career. If you want to do more because you care, we’d love to talk to you.

We are currently looking for a Senior Project Manager to deliver the AMP8 programme and support the Senior Programme Manager within the Hafren Dyfrdwy Capital Delivery Team.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

As Senior Project Manager in HD, you’ll support the Senior Programme Manager with a strategic viewpoint to deliver our capital programmes across both water and waste sub-services, including timely delivery of our regulatory commitments to OFWAT. With this, you’ll need excellent commercial and strategic experience and knowledge to help drive the HD programme through to completion in AMP8.

This role will help support and nurture the HD team, supporting the Senior Programme Manager to lead the team on their day-to-day activities, as well as aiding to develop individuals within the team. Key to this is having a strong sense of leadership and ownership, along with personal development into a leadership role.

You will be responsible for projects from feasibility/evaluation through to construction and handover, working with both internal and external stakeholders to gain their buy-in and ensure smooth delivery of key outputs. You will ensure external consultants develop innovative technical designs that represent the best value TOTEX solution that achieves the business needs. Following from this, you’ll be responsible for developing the commercial strategy ensuring the best time, cost and quality delivery route. Upon completion, timely benefits realisation and capitalisation of these contracts is key.

You’ll be competent in managing the six aspects of a project, i.e. scope, schedule, finance, risk, quality and resource. You’ll drive the project plans, safeguard milestone delivery and ensure reporting of progress through to the Senior Programme Manager and HD Executive Committee.

You will be skilled in your knowledge of the Construction, Design and Management Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) and have a keen knowledge of the Client, Principal Contractor and Principal Designer duties.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE

Qualified and experienced in a relevant engineering discipline and ideally be working towards a professional qualification (civil, mechanical, process or electrical). You will have experience in design and/or project delivery working to industry standards and codes of practice.

Experience across various stages of the project lifecycle, from feasibility through to construction.

Knowledge or experience in clean water and/or wastewater treatment is highly desirable, but we welcome candidates eager to learn and grow in this field.

You’ll come equipped with confident communication, team membership, leadership and stakeholder management skills, with a proactive and flexible approach to working, and have excellent planning and organising skills.

It’s essential you’re able to travel independently but you’ll be based at Wrexham.

The right skills and experience are important. But if you have the right character, positivity and a caring attitude we want to talk to you, too.

We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our communities. We want people who show up and get involved. Those who are ready to be part of something bigger and who want to make a difference because they care. Is that you?

We do more, because we care.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

It’s not just a job you’ll get here, you’ll get a career too. We have a range of benefits that reward and recognise great work and award-winning training to ensure you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the community in which we live. Here’s some of our favourites:

• 26 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/sell up to 5 days per year)
• Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,225 per annum based on company performance)
• Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 8% when you contribute 4%)
• Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
• Dedicated training and development with our ‘Academy’
• Family friendly policies
• Two volunteering days per year

WHAT’S NEXT

We can’t wait to hear from you.

Before you apply, you’ll need an updated copy of your CV and about five minutes to spare.

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