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Company: COWI A/S
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Location: East Midlands
Job Description:

Do you want to have a leading role on one of our major projects? Can you manage a multidisciplinary team? Are you an experienced Project Manager in the Water/Waste water or Tranmission sector? Then, this is the place to apply your knowledge and curiosity to enable a better tomorrow.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

To provide project management leadership for the successful planning, development and delivery of a Water/Wastewater or Transmission projects, we are looking for an Associate Project Manager to join us. Working on projects, you’ll ensures safe, efficient, high-quality delivery in line with programme objectives, governance, technical standards, and commercial requirements. The role manages day-to-day performance of technical specialists ensuring risks, interfaces, constraints and progress are effectively controlled to achieve project outcomes.

Your key responsibilities

  • Manage day-to-day management, coordination and delivery of assigned project scope within either water/Wastewater or Transmission projects, ensuring alignment with programme baselines, performance objectives and strategy.
  • Build and maintain effective working relationships with the delivery partner, internal teams, project governance forums and external stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of project objectives—including safety, programme, carbon reduction and social value commitments—to support informed decision-making on progress, risks and issues.
  • Manage delivery partner and consultancy performance by clearly defining requirements, setting expectations for safety, time, cost and quality, and taking timely action to resolve emerging issues.
  • Oversee commercial and contractual performance management to secure value for money and control costs.
  • Identify, assess and manage project risks, issues, interfaces and dependencies, implementing effective mitigation and escalation where required.
  • Ensure all project activities are delivered safely, in accordance with safety leadership expectations, CDM regulations, and environmental commitments.
  • Conduct Procurement Compliance and Assurance activities, reviewing tender documentation and supporting supply chain tender processes to demonstrate value for money.

Qualifications

  • Possess Chartered status or APM PMQ (or equivalent).
  • Previous experience leading teams to manage complex projects to completion in the Water/Wastewater or Transmission sector.
  • Experience of managing and maintaining agreed project plans and detailed stage plans with delivery partners.
  • Clear evidence of commercial skills with demonstrated ability to negotiate and manage contracts to deliver outcomes and ensure value for money.
  • Experience promoting innovation, sustainability, and best practice.
  • Demonstrated strategic leadership, planning, organisational and decision-making ability.
  • Communication and the ability to build support with commercial and financial acumen.

Benefits

  • 28 days’ holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays
  • Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
  • Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents
  • Flexible and hybrid working conditions
  • Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
  • Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
  • Life assurance

Equal opportunity employer

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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Posted: April 18th, 2026