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Job Title: Head of Project Delivery (Wastewater Infrastructure)                              

Location: Falmer (Hybrid Working)                             

Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits

Lead one of the most significant infrastructure programmes in the South East.

Southern Water is embarking on a bold transformation to deliver a resilient, sustainable future for our customers and communities. At the heart of this journey is our Head of Project Delivery (Infrastructure), a senior leadership role with full accountability for delivering an ambitious c£500 million capital programme that will shape the region’s wastewater network for decades to come. This is a high-profile leadership role with influence and responsibility where you will be working in a forward-thinking environment where your ideas drive real change.

Why this job matters:

This is not just a job it’s a mission-critical position that will influence how we protect the environment, serve our customers, and meet the challenges of climate change and population growth. Reporting directly to the Director of Capital Delivery, you will lead a high-performing team and work with Strategic Delivery Partners to deliver projects that meet the highest standards of health & safety, customer excellence, time, cost and quality.

Your decisions will impact thousands of lives, and your leadership will set the tone for collaboration, innovation, and accountability across Southern Water and our supply chain.

Responsibilities will include:

• Delivering excellence: Oversee the planning and execution of complex infrastructure projects, ensuring compliance, governance and risk management at every stage.
• Leading people: Inspire and develop a team of Programme Managers, Senior Project Managers and Project Managers. Supported by PMO, Finance, Commercial, and HR resources.
• Driving innovation: Build strong relationships with design and build delivery partners, champion new ideas and promote efficiency and sustainability.
• Managing scale: Take ownership of an annual capital programme and associated Opex budget.

About You

We’re looking for a proven leader with extensive experience in senior capital delivery within the utility infrastructure sector. You’ll bring deep expertise in large-scale construction project management, engineering principles and commercial strategy, underpinned by a Chartered Engineer status or equivalent professional qualification. As a strategic thinker, you’ll thrive in complex environments, inspire confidence across stakeholders and champion health and safety alongside an exceptional customer experience.

Package

This role will be full time Monday to Friday 37 hours a week.  

Southern Water operate a hybrid approach to working between our Falmer office and home.

We are offering a salary of up to TBC per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:

• Company and performance-related bonus

• Generous pension up to 11% company contribution

• 25 days annual leave

• Life assurance equal to 4x salary

• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)

• Health Cash Plan

• Full funded eye tests

• Two paid volunteering days a year

• Occupational health service

• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers

• Digital GP service

• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications

• Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options

• Cycle to work scheme

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support, because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During the interview stage, we will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to the position.