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About the Role

As our Client Design & Engineering Manager, you'll be at the heart of programme decision-making, providing strategic technical leadership across a complex portfolio of engineering, design and constructability activities. Working client-side, you'll provide oversight and assurance of our Programme Delivery Partner's design and engineering function, ensuring technical excellence, programme outcomes and value for money are achieved. You'll influence major decisions, guide technical strategy and ensure that the solutions being developed today will stand the test of time for decades to come. You'll work alongside multidisciplinary teams spanning programme delivery, consenting, planning, land, environment, commercial, procurement and stakeholder management, helping drive progress through one of the most challenging and rewarding infrastructure programmes in the sector.

Responsibilities

Providing strategic technical oversight across engineering, design and constructability activities.
Supporting development of programme design strategies, processes and technical requirements.
Reviewing and accepting key engineering outputs and deliverables on behalf of Anglian Water.
Ensuring technical integrity is maintained across scope, programme, cost and prioritisation decisions.
Leading the resolution of complex technical challenges and risks.
Acting as a technical representative for Anglian Water and Cambridge Water within programme governance and external stakeholder engagement.
Working closely with regulators, environmental bodies, utility providers and other strategic partners.
Championing health, safety and design risk reduction throughout the programme lifecycle.

Requirements

Proven engineering leadership experience on major infrastructure or Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).
Significant technical expertise in a relevant discipline such as dam engineering, river engineering or similarly complex infrastructure.
Experience managing consultancy partners and major engineering contracts.
Strong stakeholder management capability, including experience working with regulators and external partners.
The ability to balance technical excellence with programme outcomes and commercial considerations.

Skills

Strategic thinking
Deep technical expertise

Location

Peterborough
London

Work Type

Hybrid Working 2-3 days in office weekly
Full-time
Part-time
Permanent

Experience Level

Experienced engineering leader

Education Level

Relevant engineering degree

Salary/Compensations

Circa £87,000 depending on skills and experience

Benefits

Private health care
Double-matched pension
Life assurance at 8 times salary
Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
26 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paid paternity / partner leave.
Opportunity for shared parental pay
Bonus scheme – up to 15%
Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

About the Company

At Anglian Water, we're delivering something extraordinary. The Reservoirs Programme will create two new multi-billion-pound reservoirs, the Fens Reservoir and the Lincolnshire Reservoir, securing water supplies for future generations across the East of England. Together, these projects represent the largest and most complex infrastructure schemes ever undertaken by Anglian Water and are amongst the most significant water infrastructure investments in the UK. The programme is currently progressing through the Development Consent Order process, with future delivery expected to exceed £5 billion.
Water is essential to life, and the decisions we make today will impact generations to come.
If you're excited by the chance to shape landmark infrastructure, influence industry-leading engineering solutions and be part of a programme that will define the future of water resilience in the UK, we'd love to hear from you. Help us build something that lasts for generations.

Equal Opportunity

We value the representation & diversity within our communities. Inclusion is for every one and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.