Delivery Manager

Job Description

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 W ater 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 the Delivery Manager, you'll take responsibility for commercial oversight across a portfolio of projects, making sure they are delivered efficiently, in line with contract requirements and to the standards our clients expect. This is to deliver AMP8 Infrastructure projects working on Southern Water Framework. You'll lead the successful delivery of a portfolio of infrastructure and construction projects, ensuring they are delivered safely, compliantly, on time and within budget. We'll need you to oversee programme planning, resource allocation and project performance across multiple workstreams, coordinating labour, plant and materials to maintain delivery and keep programmes on track. As part of this role, you'll be responsible for maintaining strong governance and compliance standards, ensuring accurate project reporting, forecasting and performance data, while meeting contractual, statutory and organisational requirements. Working closely with Commercial Managers, you'll drive commercial performance through effective cost control, forecasting, cashflow management and change governance, making informed decisions that protect contract value and performance. You'll build strong relationships with clients, subcontractors and internal stakeholders, providing clear updates on progress, risks and key issues while driving timely resolution of challenges. You'll proactively identify and mitigate risks, champion continuous improvement and value engineering initiatives, and apply lessons learned across projects to enhance future delivery. As the Delivery Manager, you'll lead, develop and support your team, creating the conditions for high performance, collaboration and consistent delivery while always promoting M Group's health, safety and environmental standards. What you'll bring Do you have a degree in Engineering, Construction Management or a related discipline, or equivalent experience - This is desirable. Have you got relevant certifications such as CSCS, SMSTS and IOSH or NEBOSH? Do you hold a valid Driving Licence? Have you got experience working across multidisciplinary projects or portfolios in highways and street works environments? Are you experienced in supporting commercial assurance activities? Can you lead open, meaningful conversations about performance, development and potential? Are you able to Identify and develop future talent, supporting succession planning along with planning resources and oversee recruitment, onboarding and retention? Can you consistently demonstrate our people manager standards and actively coach others to do the same? What's in it for you? 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 Reward and recognition scheme Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us! In addition, this role offers; 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 About us 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 Whether you're a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. It's an exceptional time to be a part of M Group. Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding. #MGroupW #LI-LK1 IND TPBN1_UKTJ