Technical Manager - Water Non Infrastructure

at  Sweco UK

ABOUT THE @ONE ALLIANCE

The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a totally collaborative organisation made up of nine 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.
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.
To ensure suitable designs, resources and engineering outputs are achieved we’re looking for a Technical Manager to lead our Water Non-Infrastructure (WNI) team.
What will you be doing as our new Technical Manager in WNI?
You will be responsible for creating and developing value-driven solutions that align with our capital investment programme outcomes and effectively manage the delivery of project designs within Water Non-Infrastructure schemes.
You will lead an engineering team to deliver design solutions for a programme of clean water (potable) non-infrastructure (treatment) projects.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Design Management

• Lead and manage engineering design delivery for a portfolio within the water non-infrastructure team.
• Develop and oversee Engineering Project Plans encompassing scope, schedule, cost, risk, and resources.
• Collaborate with engineering discipline leads to ensure optimal design methodologies and outputs.
• Implement design quality procedures to ensure right-first-time philosophy adherence.
• Manage supplier and subcontractor design input, ensuring integration and alignment with project goals.
• Produce designs prioritizing health & safety, environmental considerations, construction feasibility, and stakeholder needs.

Project Delivery

• Work collaboratively with other project functions to deliver outcomes efficiently.
• Seek opportunities to enhance affordability and value throughout the design process.
• Support project programmes to achieve milestones and drive efficiencies.
• Develop sustainable designs contributing to carbon reduction and natural capital enhancement.
• Contribute to risk management and value-driven outcomes.

Health & Safety

• Ensure compliance with Construction Design & Management (CDM) Regulations, managing design-related health and safety risks.
• Identify and address health, safety, and welfare issues within the team.

People/Team Development

• Provide clear leadership to the project design team, fostering a positive and inclusive environment.
• Manage multi-disciplinary teams (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Process Engineers), including performance management and mentoring.
• Identify competency gaps and support recruitment and development initiatives.

Transformation

• Cultivate a culture of experimentation, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team.
• Support initiatives to reduce carbon footprint and embrace digital technologies for enhanced project delivery.

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND BEHAVIOURS.

To join us on the team, you’ll hold an Engineering or equivalent degree (preferable). It is essential you have experience of water-sector assets and delivering capital projects. Experience in some of the following types of projects within this programme area is essential; nitrate removal; PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) removal; taste and odour; Water Treatment Works (WTW) upgrades and return to services; potable water reservoir upgrades cleaning and maintenance; new boreholes and works at existing boreholes; supernatant return; potable and raw water pumping stations; chemical dosing. Familiarity with the design and build environment is advantageous.
Able to inspire and lead a team, you’ll be customer focussed in all the activities you undertake. With a strong appreciation of how collaboration can truly unlock complex projects, you’ll be able to assess unique situations and draw upon your technical expertise to make decisive, yet safety conscious, decisions to keep projects on track. Always operating with integrity and accountability, you’ll be able to build rapport and trust amongst your stakeholders and establish yourself and the team across the Alliance.
If you are looking for the next step in your career, please apply today!

Please refer the Job description for details