Framework Delivery Manager (Water)
Added 24 Sept · still live
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Salary
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£44,300
Going rate
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This role may qualify for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2455 is an eligible occupation, but we are only 50% sure that is the right code. M Group Water is a licensed sponsor, so if the code fits, the role should qualify. Check the occupation eligibility rules against what the job actually involves.
We pick the code from the advert's text, so it is our best guess, not the employer's. Each code it could be has its own likelihood:
- Likely 2455 (Construction project managers and related professionals) · 50% match
- Likely 1122 (Production managers and directors in construction) · 21% match
- Likely 2127 (Engineering project managers and project engineers) · 20% match
Your salary route
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2455 Construction project managers and related professionals Most likely code | £33,400 | £35,400 | £39,900 | £44,300 |
1122 Production managers and directors in construction Also possible | £37,400 | £42,700 | £48,100 | £53,400 |
2127 Engineering project managers and project engineers Also possible | £36,300 | £41,500 | £46,700 | £51,900 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
This role will be within our Water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As a Framework Delivery Manager (Water) you'll oversee M Groups Integrated Operational Solutions Alliance with Anglian Water covering the southern region of Anglian Water. You'll be responsible for the successful delivery of Design and Build projects ranging in value and complexity up to £5m, ensuring these are delivered on time and to budget.
Reporting to the Contracts Director, you'll have overall control and accountability for the delivery of all work within the IOS Water programme including mains replacement, storage point refurbishment, stand-alone schemes (capital maintenance & enhancement). In addition, we'll need you to be actively involved in securing new work and identifying any growth opportunities within your region.
You'll use leadership skills to manage and mentor your Project Managers and Site teams to build high performing teams to deliver their projects and to develop them as individuals. We'll need you to be able to communicate at all levels within the organisation to build relationships with our Clients and Supply Chain which support M Group Values and behaviours.
You'll also be responsible for the identification and management of all project risks including Health, Safety, Wellbeing, Environment, Quality, Commercial and Programme to achieve Client and Company performance targets.
Your responsibilities as the Framework Delivery Manager (Water) will include:
Where will you be working?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
This role will be within our Water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As a Framework Delivery Manager (Water) you'll oversee M Groups Integrated Operational Solutions Alliance with Anglian Water covering the southern region of Anglian Water. You'll be responsible for the successful delivery of Design and Build projects ranging in value and complexity up to £5m, ensuring these are delivered on time and to budget.
Reporting to the Contracts Director, you'll have overall control and accountability for the delivery of all work within the IOS Water programme including mains replacement, storage point refurbishment, stand-alone schemes (capital maintenance & enhancement). In addition, we'll need you to be actively involved in securing new work and identifying any growth opportunities within your region.
You'll use leadership skills to manage and mentor your Project Managers and Site teams to build high performing teams to deliver their projects and to develop them as individuals. We'll need you to be able to communicate at all levels within the organisation to build relationships with our Clients and Supply Chain which support M Group Values and behaviours.
You'll also be responsible for the identification and management of all project risks including Health, Safety, Wellbeing, Environment, Quality, Commercial and Programme to achieve Client and Company performance targets.
Your responsibilities as the Framework Delivery Manager (Water) will include:
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- Have a hands-on approach from tender, design development, construction and handover of projects at completion.
- Proactively manage staffing levels to deliver the volumes work
- Ensure that all engineering construction work under your control complies with all relevant construction statutory instruments in accordance with Anglian Water standards
- Support a strategy that translates into a strong and innovative delivery of high-quality project works in a highly governed and challenging industry.
- Ensure that projects are set up and managed effectively complying with Client, M Group and Statutory standards.
- Ensure that a detailed project plan is in place for each project to track progress with regular updates to the Contracts Director.
- Provide annual turnover and contribution budget profiles
- Act as bid lead for tenders, providing fully developed project proposals to deliver on the Project Briefs and prepare governance packs and take projects through internal governance and present to senior management and board members.
- Responsible for ensuring that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget whilst maintaining highest level of customer and client service at all time.
- Full commercial and programme responsibility for Framework
- Assess and assure all Design and Pre-construction proposals for technical compliance prior to submission for approval.
- Ensure that commercial and programme submissions are to the right quality and are submitted on time to obtain the maximum return
- Ensure that profitability is inline with budgets and that cash flow is maximised
- To carry out all duties in accordance with M Group and Client requirements for Health, Safety and Welfare with due regard to Health & Safety Legislation and policy.
- Undertake leadership safety engagement tours and SHE audits to ensure we are embedding zero compromise safety culture and demonstrating Anglian Waters 'Safer Every Day' principles
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- Do you have experience as a Framework Manager of delivering multi-million pound utility projects for Utility Companies or similar including on a Design and Build basis?
- Have you got proven experience and good contractual understanding of working to NEC4 Options A, C and E and IChemE Burgundy Book?
- Are you able to develop programmes to NEC standards and familiar with Primavera P6?
- Do you have experience of working on similar technical Water programmes in a Design & Build capacity?
- Have you gained a HND or Degree level equivalent in an Engineering or Project Management Occupation? This is preferred.
- Do you hold a SMSTS, CSCS Certification? These are essential
- Have you got a valid UK driving licence?
- Are you a member of Chartered Institute or equivalent? This is desirable
- Do you have great Leadership skills and experience of managing teams?
- Are you someone who is great at Negotiation along with having excellent Presentation skills?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you and your family the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- Private Healthcare - family cover
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Discretionary bonus scheme
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
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Where this offer sits in the market
Construction project managers and related professionals (SOC 2455) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~36k in sampleSOC 2455
- Middle half £37,596–57,720
- Median £45,396
- Going rate £44,300
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £33,400–39,900
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. M Group Water holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2455 going rate of £44,300. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.