Project Development Manager
Ready to lead one of the UK’s most significant water infrastructure projects? At Thames Water, we’re shaping the future of water resilience for generations to come. We’re looking for an experienced Project Development Manager to lead the development of the Lower Thames to West London Reservoir (LTWLR) — a nationally significant £1billion Strategic Resource Option (SRO) designed to improve drought resilience while protecting the environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading the overall development and delivery of the LTWLR SRO, ensuring safety, quality, cost and schedule requirements are met.
- Setting and owning project requirements, strategies, standards, design principles, milestones and budgets.
- Managing a large, multi‑disciplinary Technical Partner, acting as Service Manager under an NEC4 contract.
- Owning and maintaining the project baseline, including scope, cost estimates, schedules and risk assessments.
- Ensuring robust governance, change control and escalation of decisions where required.
- Overseeing the delivery of technical outputs to support planning, procurement and regulatory processes, including RAPID Gate submissions.
- Acting as the primary interface between project sponsors, the SRO team, Technical Partners and Thames Water corporate functions.
- Representing the project with internal and external stakeholders, including active participation in community engagement.
- Driving a strong culture of safety, wellbeing and collaboration aligned to Thames Water values.
Required Qualifications
- Degree‑level education. (or equivalent experience)
- Proven leadership experience on major infrastructure or capital projects.
- Experience in roles such as Project Manager, Project Sponsor, Design Manager or Development Manager.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across organisations with competing priorities.
- Sound commercial awareness and experience working with large consultancy or delivery partners.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and influencing skills.
- Strong project management capability, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
Desirable Qualifications
- Chartered status (or working towards) with a relevant professional body.
- Experience of projects progressing through DCO or similarly complex planning processes.
- Significant engineering or technical background.
- Knowledge across the full project lifecycle.
Working Arrangements
This role is offered on a hybrid working basis, split between our Reading and London offices, with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office (or as required by the project).
Benefits
- Salary: £71,000 – £85,000 per annum, depending on experience.
- 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
- Performance‑related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
- Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
- Access to benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.
Equal Opportunities
We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else, just let us know. We’re here to help and support.
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Ready to lead one of the UK’s most significant water infrastructure projects? At Thames Water, we’re shaping the future of water resilience for generations to come. We’re looking for an experienced Project Development Manager to lead the development of the Lower Thames to West London Reservoir (LTWLR) — a nationally significant £1billion Strategic Resource Option (SRO) designed to improve drought resilience while protecting the environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading the overall development and delivery of the LTWLR SRO, ensuring safety, quality, cost and schedule requirements are met.
- Setting and owning project requirements, strategies, standards, design principles, milestones and budgets.
- Managing a large, multi‑disciplinary Technical Partner, acting as Service Manager under an NEC4 contract.
- Owning and maintaining the project baseline, including scope, cost estimates, schedules and risk assessments.
- Ensuring robust governance, change control and escalation of decisions where required.
- Overseeing the delivery of technical outputs to support planning, procurement and regulatory processes, including RAPID Gate submissions.
- Acting as the primary interface between project sponsors, the SRO team, Technical Partners and Thames Water corporate functions.
- Representing the project with internal and external stakeholders, including active participation in community engagement.
- Driving a strong culture of safety, wellbeing and collaboration aligned to Thames Water values.
Required Qualifications
- Degree‑level education. (or equivalent experience)
- Proven leadership experience on major infrastructure or capital projects.
- Experience in roles such as Project Manager, Project Sponsor, Design Manager or Development Manager.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across organisations with competing priorities.
- Sound commercial awareness and experience working with large consultancy or delivery partners.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and influencing skills.
- Strong project management capability, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
Desirable Qualifications
- Chartered status (or working towards) with a relevant professional body.
- Experience of projects progressing through DCO or similarly complex planning processes.
- Significant engineering or technical background.
- Knowledge across the full project lifecycle.
Working Arrangements
This role is offered on a hybrid working basis, split between our Reading and London offices, with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office (or as required by the project).
Benefits
- Salary: £71,000 – £85,000 per annum, depending on experience.
- 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
- Performance‑related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
- Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
- Access to benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.
Equal Opportunities
We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else, just let us know. We’re here to help and support.
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