Project Solution Manager

at  Sweco UK

ABOUT THE @ONE ALLIANCE

The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a totally collaborative organisation made up of eight partner companies (Anglian Water, SWECO, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, and Skanska) and an extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.
We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.
With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer’s expectations will come under greater scrutiny.
We need aspiring driven talent to help us achieve our ambitious targets, are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen?

ABOUT SWECO

Transforming society together, we’re planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.
Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.
We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.
To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week.
To help us create value-drive project solutions that achieve our capital investment programme outcomes and business objects we’re seeking a Project Solution Manager to join our Solutions Team.
Are you ready to join the most exciting AMP we’ve ever seen?

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Collaborate with the Portfolio Solutions Manager to identify and plan the resources required for project solution generation and selection.
• Develop Solutions Stage Project Plans, including programmes and budgets, and ensure alignment with Anglian Water. Monitor progress, identify potential changes, and assist with monthly performance reporting.
• Manage the production and assessment of data and solution options to inform the Risk Opportunity and Value (ROV) process. Record reasons for rejecting solutions and ensure analytical and objective reasoning during ROV workshops.
• Engage with @one project teams and Anglian Water to communicate progress and facilitate acceptance of preferred solutions.
• Lead the production of @one Solutions Stage deliverables.
• Support the @one preferred solution review meeting to assess the confidence and certainty of preferred solutions for efficient delivery in subsequent stages.
• Support stakeholder engagement and escalation within Anglian Water if required.

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND BEHAVIOURS..

To be successful in this position you will hold a degree in an engineering discipline and preferably have experience in water-sector assets and delivering capital projects. Experience in a Design and Build environment is an advantage. You be able to demonstrator compliance with business ethics, foster collaboration and support the development of skills around you.
You are a natural leader, providing line management for the team, and can confidentially manage activities to achieve efficient outputs to ensure quality procedures are followed, mitigating risk where necessary. You’ll enjoy the challenge of contributing to commercial performance and identifying improvements.
Alongside this we want to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to showcase their abilities during the interview process. If you require any specific accommodations or adjustments due to a disability or any other individual circumstances, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Being part of the @one Alliance one of the most successful, award-winning and progress water sector capital delivery organisations, you will work on a diverse programme of wastewater (sewage) treatment, infrastructure (water and sew pipelines) and water (treatment and storage) projects.
You will lead the development of project solutions, develop new ways of working that focus on delivering outcomes, rather than outputs, to reduce carbon, protect and increase natural capital, address climate change, and embrace innovations and new digital technologies.