519 Management jobs in Peterborough

Join Our Team at Busy Bees Peterborough Deeping St James! – Leading Nursery Group in the UK

Are you a superstar in early years education, ready to sprinkle joy and ignite little imaginations?  Busy Bees Peterborough Deeping St James  is on the lookout for a Nursery Manager  who’s bursting with energy, creativity, and a love for helping young minds grow!

If you’ve got your Level 3 childcare qualification , plus 2+ years of leading a team  in an early years setting, we want your sparkle, your passion, and your EYFS know-how on our team!

At Busy Bees , we don’t just care for children—we inspire them! With nearly 400 nurseries across the UK  (and more around the globe), we’re proud to be the UK’s leading nursery group. And we don’t just win awards for childcare—we’ve got a pretty great workplace too, where everyone is heard, supported, and celebrated .

• A buzzing, supportive environment where your ideas matter

• Exclusive access to our playful, purpose-driven Bee Curious curriculum

• Opportunities to get involved in fun charity events  with BBC Children in Need

• Loads of room to grow your career  with us

Busy Bees Benefits

• Up to 25% annual salary bonus
• Competitive salary
• Ongoing professional development and career progression
• Our ‘Hive’ benefits and wellbeing hub, with discounts across a huge range of retailers
• Up to 33 days holiday per year (including bank holidays)
• Your birthday off – it’s our gift to you!
• Significant Childcare discount 
• Enhanced family leave and return to work bonus
• Menopause support through Peppy
• Financial support through Salary Finance
• Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Easy access to your workplace pension through Cushon
• Discounted Private Medical Insurance (PMI)
• Opportunities to travel to other countries, experience different cultures  and learn new practices via our Talent Exchange program.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead & Inspire: Drive excellence and motivate your team.
• Quality Improvement: Enhance educational programs and operational processes.
• Compliance: Ensure a safe and secure environment, meeting all regulations.
• Financial Oversight: Manage budgets and resources effectively.
• Engagement: Build strong relationships with parents, staff, and the community.
• Professional Development: Foster team growth to provide exceptional care.

About you:

• We are looking for a passionate and ambitious Nursery Manager whose primary goal is to deliver the highest standards of childcare and early years education.
• You will be resourceful, commercially minded, have strong leadership ability and excellent communication skills.
• You will have strong organisational skills with a keen attention to detail and be able to prioritise your workload effectively.

Qualifications and Experience:

• NNEB, BTEC Nat Dip, CACHE Dip in Childcare, or NVQ Level 3.
• Experience as a Nursery Manager or Assistant Nursery Manager.
• Strong leadership, organisational, and communication skills.
• A focus on delivering high-quality childcare and early education.

Apply now and be part of our dynamic team!

Join Our Team at Busy Bees Peterborough Deeping St James! – Leading Nursery Group in the UK

Are you a superstar in early years education, ready to sprinkle joy and ignite little imaginations?  Busy Bees Peterborough Deeping St James  is on the lookout for a Nursery Manager  who’s bursting with energy, creativity, and a love for helping young minds grow!

If you’ve got your Level 3 childcare qualification , plus 2+ years of leading a team  in an early years setting, we want your sparkle, your passion, and your EYFS know-how on our team!

At Busy Bees , we don’t just care for children—we inspire them! With nearly 400 nurseries across the UK  (and more around the globe), we’re proud to be the UK’s leading nursery group. And we don’t just win awards for childcare—we’ve got a pretty great workplace too, where everyone is heard, supported, and celebrated .

• A buzzing, supportive environment where your ideas matter

• Exclusive access to our playful, purpose-driven Bee Curious curriculum

• Opportunities to get involved in fun charity events  with BBC Children in Need

• Loads of room to grow your career  with us

Busy Bees Benefits

• Up to 25% annual salary bonus
• Competitive salary
• Ongoing professional development and career progression
• Our ‘Hive’ benefits and wellbeing hub, with discounts across a huge range of retailers
• Up to 33 days holiday per year (including bank holidays)
• Your birthday off – it’s our gift to you!
• Significant Childcare discount 
• Enhanced family leave and return to work bonus
• Menopause support through Peppy
• Financial support through Salary Finance
• Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Easy access to your workplace pension through Cushon
• Discounted Private Medical Insurance (PMI)
• Opportunities to travel to other countries, experience different cultures  and learn new practices via our Talent Exchange program.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead & Inspire: Drive excellence and motivate your team.
• Quality Improvement: Enhance educational programs and operational processes.
• Compliance: Ensure a safe and secure environment, meeting all regulations.
• Financial Oversight: Manage budgets and resources effectively.
• Engagement: Build strong relationships with parents, staff, and the community.
• Professional Development: Foster team growth to provide exceptional care.

About you:

• We are looking for a passionate and ambitious Nursery Manager whose primary goal is to deliver the highest standards of childcare and early years education.
• You will be resourceful, commercially minded, have strong leadership ability and excellent communication skills.
• You will have strong organisational skills with a keen attention to detail and be able to prioritise your workload effectively.

Qualifications and Experience:

• NNEB, BTEC Nat Dip, CACHE Dip in Childcare, or NVQ Level 3.
• Experience as a Nursery Manager or Assistant Nursery Manager.
• Strong leadership, organisational, and communication skills.
• A focus on delivering high-quality childcare and early education.

Apply now and be part of our dynamic team!

Head of Commercial

As Head of Commercial, you’ll be at the heart of driving the commercial success of a designated Business Unit, looking after a portfolio of projects of between £600m - £750m over five years. Reporting to the Delivery or Commercial Director, you’ll manage all aspects of the commercial function, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives while fostering collaboration, innovation, and value-driven outcomes.

Are you a visionary commercial leader with a proven track record of delivering strategic objectives in a collaborative environment? Are you ready to make a significant impact on one of the UK’s largest and most innovative alliances?

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership : Develop and execute commercial strategies that enhance performance and align with our outperformance targets.
• Performance Management : Oversee the commercial performance of the Business Unit, ensuring effective cost assurance, KPI reporting, and governance.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement : Build strong relationships with internal teams and external partners to deliver seamless integration across the supply chain.
• Procurement & Supply Chain Management : Drive procurement innovation and ensure supply chain performance aligns with programme goals.
• Team Leadership & Development : Lead a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, care, and continuous improvement.
• Health, Safety & Wellbeing : Champion a culture of health, safety, and well-being across the team and supply chain.

A little bit about your skills, experience, and behaviours….

We’re looking for an experienced leader who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will bring:

• A degree-level education, with significant experience in a senior leadership role.
• Proven expertise in project and programme delivery within construction or utilities.
• A strong commercial acumen with experience in contract management, procurement, and estimating.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• A track record of leading successful teams and delivering business objectives at a strategic level.
• The ability to drive innovation, improve processes, and deliver exceptional results.

Caring and investing in you

Our values have been embedded at Barhale for over 40 years, and they are our guiding principles regarding how we care and invest in people.  Our values are our commitment to being a people-centric company.

As a Gold Investors in People company and a Sunday Times 100 Best Company to Work For, we are committed to investing in people. We are passionate about creating a working environment where people are supported throughout their careers, where people can enjoy security and be part of a company that cares about them.

From the moment you join us, your well-being and career aspirations will be supported by;

• Competitive salary
• Company Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical
• 25 days of annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days
• 8 hours volunteering
• Employee Assistance Programme to support your mental, physiological, and financial well-being.
• Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
• Company car/green car scheme/car allowance/Van (dependent on position)
• Leadership & management training and coaching
• Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression.
• Development supported by internal and externally delivered training.
• Continuous service awards

About Barhale

Who are Barhale?

Barhale is a business founded on family values, having been established by our Chairman, Dennis Curran in 1980. We are one of the largest privately owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists in the UK, with over 40 years of experience in providing design, civil engineering and maintenance services working across multiple sectors, including:

• Water
• Transport
• Built environment
• Energy

We operate as a tier one partner for blue chip, regulated and private clients, working as part of large frameworks, joint ventures and alliances, as well as on individual standalone projects, developing long-term relationships based on delivering to the Barhale values which have been integral to our business since their inception in 1985.

Our direct delivery model is at the core of everything we do as we believe that people are our greatest asset. Therefore, we robustly source, train and retain all our own frontline delivery teams as well as management and support services. We employ over 1,200 employees nationwide.

We possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities, including:

• Tunnelling
• MEICA
• Temporary and permanent design
• Steel-fabrication
• Signs (design and fabrication)
• Health & safety equipment and products, including PPE

Company Website:

Company Showcase Video:

Why join Barhale?

• As Gold Investors in People, we are committed to a high standard of people practices, creating an inclusive environment and ensuring cultural alignment to business strategy, ethos and philosophies.
• Job security, long-term secured work through various frameworks and large infrastructure schemes
• A broad range of civil engineering and mechanical, and electrical schemes across some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects and clients
• Strong career progression as demonstrated by our track record in promoting from withi,n as we believe this is a key driver to our success

Project Delivery Manager

The Role

Barhale is one of three delivery partners within the Anglian Water Integrated Operational Solutions Alliance. IOS is a medium complexity, capital maintenance and enhancement, Civil and MEICA, design and build delivery unit working across Water and Water Recycling to support the successful implementation of the Anglian Water AMP 8 business plan.

As our new Project Delivery Manager, you’ll lead a team of Project Engineers to oversee the development of solutions, ensuring projects are completed on time, to quality, drinking water and safety standards, whilst in line with legislation, alliance governance and processes. You’ll be responsible for projects throughout their lifecycles, ensuring the team handles operational needs and conflicts appropriately to arrive at ‘win-win’ situations for all concerned.

Key Responsibilities

General

• Assure CDM compliance of each scheme to champion a ‘Zero-Harm’ culture.
• Create and maintain a high-performing team culture with your Project Engineers to empower your team to think creatively to resolve issues.
• Oversee the teams’ promoted solutions, ensuring they are safe, commercially viable and resolve the project requirements whilst being fit for the purpose.
• Accountable for the full project lifecycle from receipt of need through scoping, construction, project handover, formal sign-off off and managing any warranty issue that arises post-handover.
• Translating Programme-level strategy into actual outcomes so team members are utilised correctly and fully understand the role they play in achieving success.

• Responsibility for subcontract procurement, negotiation and financial accounting.
• Liaison with clients, client representatives and other third parties on commercial issues, including agreement on matters relating to contractual change, claims and additional payment.

• Cost management and project forecasting.
• Work closely with Commercial and Planning teams to ensure cost and resource forecasts are maintained to required levels of accuracy whilst issues are mitigated and/ or escalated to the Pre-Construction Lead for successful resolution.
• Share best practices with others and take a proactive approach in advising site teams on cost management and efficiencies.
• Identification and realisation of commercial opportunities.
• Protect Barhale from commercial risks.
• Create an open, approachable, and visible team environment which engages across the IOS Alliance and organisations to promote collaboration and knowledge-sharing.

Key Measures and Targets

• Managing a team of engineers to receive a client project need, provide value engineering to develop a solution that meets the client's needs and provides the best whole life cost.
• Ensure the successful development of a detailed construction design and a defined scope of work to support the construction team in building an accurate tender bid.

Key Relationships

• Pre-Construction Manager
• Design Manager
• Project Engineers
• Construction Managers
• Clients and contacts
• Subcontractors
• External stakeholders

Essential

• Experience in design, commercial, and leading project teams
• Good working knowledge of contract conditions, CDM regulations, Design Management, Programme & Risk Management, and cost control, including forecasting, actual cost, and value reporting.
• Ability to use Primavera P6 software or equivalent
• Excellent communication, people, and team management skills, with the ability to influence, motivate and mentor
• Ability to challenge designs and resolve problems to a conclusion
• Ability to manage and deliver a successful project with minimal guidance

Desireable

• HND/degree (or equivalent) in engineering
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in the water industry
• Experience working for a direct delivery contractor

Caring and investing in you

Our values have been embedded at Barhale for over 40 years and they are our guiding principle regarding how we care and invest in people.  Our values are our commitment to being a people-centric company.

As a Gold Investors in People company and a Sunday Times 100 Best Company to Work For, we are committed to investing in people. We are passionate about creating a working environment where people are supported throughout their careers, where people can enjoy security and be part of a company that cares about them.

From the moment you join us, your well-being and career aspirations will be supported by;

• Competitive salary
• Company Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical
• Profit share scheme
• 25 days of annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days
• 8 hours leave of absence for volunteering
• Employee Assistance Programme to support your mental, physiological and financial wellbeing
• Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
• Company car/green car scheme/car allowance/Van (dependent on position)
• Leadership & management training and coaching
• Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression
• Development supported by internal and externally delivered training
• Continuous service awards

About Barhale

Who are Barhale?

Barhale is a business founded on family values, having been established by our Chairman, Dennis Curran in 1980. We are one of the largest privately owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists in the UK, with over 40 years of experience in providing design, civil engineering and maintenance services working across multiple sectors, including:

• Water
• Transport
• Built environment
• Energy

We operate as a tier one partner for blue chip, regulated and private clients, working as part of large frameworks, joint ventures and alliances, as well as on individual standalone projects, developing long-term relationships based on delivering to the Barhale values which have been integral to our business since their inception in 1985.

Our direct delivery model is at the core of everything we do, as we believe that people are our greatest asset. Therefore, we robustly source, train and retain all our own frontline delivery teams as well as management and support services. We employ over 1,200 employees nationwide.

We possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities, including:

• Tunnelling
• MEICA
• Temporary and permanent design
• Steel-fabrication
• Signs (design and fabrication)
• Health & safety equipment and products, including PPE

Company Website:

Company Showcase Video:

Why join Barhale?

• As Gold Investors in People, we are committed to a high standard of people practices, creating an inclusive environment and ensuring cultural alignment to business strategy, ethos and philosophies.
• Job security, long-term secured work through various frameworks and large infrastructure schemes
• A broad range of civil engineering and mechanical, and electrical schemes across some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects and clients
• Strong career progression as demonstrated by our track record in promoting from within, as we believe this is a key driver of our success

About IOS

Barhale is one of three delivery partners within the Anglian Water Integrated Operational Solutions Alliance. IOS is a medium complexity, capital maintenance and enhancement, Civil and MEICA, design and build delivery unit working across Water and Water Recycling to support the successful implementation of the Anglian Water AMP 8 business plan.

Technical Manager

The Role:

The role of the Technical Manager is to hold responsibility for CDM Principal Designer duties for your designated programme of works. Ensuring successful delivery through planning, managing and controlling the delivery of design projects in the pre-construction phase within IOS by Barhale as the nominated Tier 1 Partner. Leading the Design Team engineers for your particular programme of works to develop innovative, efficient, technical solutions.

Supporting engineers with project scoping, identifying design delivery routes (internal or external), together with survey requirements. Develop with the Design Team, design plans and briefs to meet project objectives that are compliant with client, statutory and industry standards, regulations, and specifications.

Manage and monitor pre-construction design budgets and programmes, together with the evaluation of engineering solutions and designs. This is particularly important for external design work.

Ensure that safety, buildability & maintainability, and environmental best practice is achieved through design. Coordinating the permanent and temporary works design, ensuring design approval before construction.

Key Responsibilities:

General

• Delegated responsibility for the programmes CDM Principal Designer duties.
• Design Leadership: oversee the design process from initial scoping (concept) with the Engineer to completion. Leading a team of design engineers and CAD technicians.
• Design Planning: coordinate with the Planning Team to develop & maintain the design programme & resource availability within the Design Team. Feedback to the Project Engineer and Project Delivery Teams if there are concerns with the timelines.
• Manage surveying: after initial scoping with the Engineer, identify survey requirements, e.g. topographic, 3D scans, trial holes, ecology and GPRS and coordinate with the Engineer to ensure that all pre-construction information is obtained.
• Design execution: plan, execute and control engineering output including technical reports, process & mechanical calculations, drawings and specifications. Liase Design Manager to ensure design work is checked & signed off before construction.
• Stakeholder management: coordinate with the Client, suppliers and regulatory bodies to ensure successful design delivery.
• Standards: Ensure all designs are delivered to the correct standards and specifications.

Key Measures and Targets

• Successful design completion on time and within budget.
• Innovative designs using Anglian Water Standard Products or new technologies or products to protect the environment, e.g. nature-based solutions, re-use of existing assets or concrete alternatives.
• Designs completed that reduce the health, safety and construction risks to construction teams, operations and the public through the Design Risk Assessment process.
• Minimise disruption to the client and customers.

Key Relationships

• S101a Senior Project Manager
• Design Team – Design Manager, Designers (Electrical, Mechanical & Process), CAD Technicians
• Delivery teams – Project Delivery Managers, Construction Managers, Project Engineers, Site Managers, Works Managers
• Regional HSEQ team
• Subcontractors and suppliers
• Clients

Essential

• Experience in design/commercial and leading project teams
• Degree/HNC in Civil Engineering, or equivalent
• Good working knowledge of CDM regulations, Design Management.
• Excellent communication, people, and team management skills, with the ability to influence, motivate and mentor
• Ability to challenge designs and resolve problems to a conclusion
• Ability to manage and deliver a successful project with minimal guidance

Desireable

• Professional qualification and membership with a relevant industry body or institution
• Have worked on general Water Recycling infrastructure projects.
• More specifically, with Vacuum Sewerage systems.

Caring and investing in you

Our values have been embedded at Barhale for over 40 years, and they are our guiding principles regarding how we care and invest in people.  Our values are our commitment to being a people-centric company.

As a Gold Investors in People company and a Sunday Times 100 Best Company to Work For, we are committed to investing in people. We are passionate about creating a working environment where people are supported throughout their careers, where people can enjoy security and be part of a company that cares about them.

From the moment you join us, your well-being and career aspirations will be supported by;

• Competitive salary
• Company Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical
• 25 days of annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days
• 8 hours volunteering
• Employee Assistance Programme to support your mental, physiological and financial wellbeing
• Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
• Company car/green car scheme/car allowance/Van (dependent on position)
• Leadership & management training and coaching
• Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression
• Development supported by internal and externally delivered training
• Continuous service awards

Here within the @one Alliance, we are a collaborative organisation made up of our eight partner companies (Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO) and our extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.  

 We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP 8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment for career progression.  

 To enhance our ability to develop an optimal programme portfolio for delivery, we are looking for a talented,

We truly care about enabling our business to be able to deliver what is needed to succeed and want to continue with the great progress we are making with efficiencies.   To help us achieve these targets we are looking for a Project Commercial Manager.

As we move into this exciting and challenging period for the Water industry, our commercial and cost management processes and practices must remain industry-leading to ensure we not only deliver but outperform against our objectives and customer expectations.  

What you will be doing as our new Project Commercial Manager?

You will be accountable for the commercial and cost management of a project or programme of projects from inception to close out reporting directly to an Integrated Projects Leader (IPL) ensuring that maximum efficiencies are obtained and full compliance with all Alliance and Anglian Water governance procedures is achieved. Providing a commercial challenge to the IPL and team on all project matters.

Responsibilities:

Management of Commercials :

• Ensuring robust estimates are provided that are aligned to scope.
• Managing and supporting the commercial and procurement strategies with the Senior Buyers to ensure the tender processes are followed correctly.
• Ensuring subcontracts are properly prepared and reflect the agreed scope and are properly managed by contract.

Robust Cost Management:

• Providing accurate live forecasting considering the project programme and reporting following the respective WBS/CBS.
• Ensuring actual costs are properly monitored and assessed against the baseline estimate and challenging any variance to the plans.
• Providing reports on actual costs versus estimates and identifying underlying reasons for any variance and resolution.

Contract Management:

• Ensuring the Alliance contract is properly administered.
• Overseeing the timely issue of early warnings and advising the IPL on all matters related to compliance.
• Ensuring that proper records are kept so that all financial information for audits and cost assurance is readily available.
• Ensuring final accounts are prepared timely and accurately.

Project and Programme Risk:

• Ensuring that mitigation plans are in place and implemented.
• Proactive management of opportunities including identifying and implementing plans to realise.
• Ensuring that all identified efficiencies are monitored as to progress and report to the IPL any variances to the plan.
• Report any withheld, disputed or disallowed costs to the IPL.

Team Leadership:

• Leading and managing a small team.
• Mentoring and developing the team individuals.

A little bit about your skills, experience, and behaviours….

To be considered for this role, ideally, you’ll be educated to a degree level and hold either RICS/CIOB/CICES certification.  You’ll have demonstrable experience in managing complex projects ranging in size up to multi-million pounds projects.  You’ll have a robust nature, be able to manage change and feel comfortable with challenging decisions.  Experience in working with the NEC suite of contracts, coupled with negotiating and estimating and outstanding stakeholder management skills will make you stand out from the crowd!

With a high level of integrity and fairness, you’ll act as the commercial conscience of the IPL.  You’ll champion collaboration and open communication and take ownership, leading with a strong commercial focus.  Working under pressure with a positive forward-thinking mentality is second nature to you as is you leading and supporting your team with a supportive empathetic approach, using your stakeholder management skills to build strong personal working relationships. 

Caring and investing in you

Our values have been embedded at Barhale for over 40 years and they are our guiding principle regarding how we care and invest in people.  Our values are our commitment to being a people-centric company.

As a Gold Investors in People company and a Sunday Times 100 Best Company to Work For, we are committed to investing in people. We are passionate about creating a working environment where people are supported throughout their careers, where people can enjoy security and be part of a company that cares about them.

From the moment you join us, your wellbeing and career aspirations will be supported by;

• Competitive salary
• Company Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical
• Profit share scheme
• 25 days of annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days
• 8 hours leave of absence for volunteering
• Employee Assistance Programme to support your mental, physiological and financial wellbeing
• Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
• Company car/green car scheme/car allowance/Van (dependent on position)
• Leadership & management training and coaching
• Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression
• Development supported by internal and externally delivered training
• Continuous service awards

Join the @one Alliance – a collaborative partnership of eight industry-leading companies (Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska, and SWECO) delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. As we prepare for the challenges and opportunities of AMP8, we’re looking for talented individuals to help us shape the future of water infrastructure.

At Anglian Water, we’re Always Exploring – ensuring we remain competitive, attractive, and rewarding for both existing and prospective employees. By Doing The Right Thing, we’re committed to recognising and rewarding our people fairly and transparently, while Building Trust through a culture that prioritises health, safety, and wellbeing.

What will you be doing as our new Project Design Manager?

As a Project Design Manager within one of our four business units, you will champion the delivery of capital projects that reduce operational risk. You will lead a cross-disciplinary team in developing and overseeing safe, compliant, on-time, and on-budget solutions that meet quality, environmental and governance standards.

Key responsibilities:

• Oversee multiple projects through full lifecycle delivery—from scoping and design through construction, handover and post-handover management.
• Assure CDM compliance and promote a zero-harm culture through audits, peer reviews and checks.
• Develop and empower a high-performing team of project engineers, planners, cost managers and coordinators.
• Manage programme-level delivery, cost forecasts, risk and change, maintaining alignment with Integrated Project Leaders.
• Drive constructability reviews and solution development with a focus on TOTEX, Risk/Opportunity/Value, and win-win outcomes.
• Ensure robust Delivery Execution Plans (DEPs) are in place and accepted by stakeholders.
• Foster collaborative working with Alliance teams, clients, and supply chain partners to deliver integrated outcomes.
• Translate client governance requirements and support IPLs at governance boards as required.

You’ll bring:

You are a credible and experienced Project Design Manager with strong leadership, technical and delivery skills. You will ideally have:

• A degree in engineering (or equivalent experience), with proven experience in water or wastewater project delivery.
• Sound knowledge of CDM and health & safety regulations, ideally with an IOSH qualification.
• APMP qualification or equivalent and experience working within a commercial or Design & Build environment.
• Strong stakeholder management, team development and communication skills.
• Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams and multiple simultaneous projects.
• The ability to operate strategically and resiliently, delivering outcomes under tight deadlines.
• A collaborative mindset with the ability to drive cost-effective, sustainable and inclusive solutions.

Depending on your skills, experience, and interests, you could be aligned to one of our four business units:

Place-Based Thinking
The Place-Based Thinking team delivers some of the largest and most complex projects across the @one Alliance. Made up of six Senior Project Manager teams, we oversee 19 catchments, covering key sites such as Whitlingham, Flag Fen, Great Billing, Cotton Valley, Bedford, Colchester, and Ipswich Cliff Quays. These projects involve managing all parts of the network from rising and gravity mains, pumping stations, high spilling overflows, and water recycling centres.

Water
The Water Business Unit provides strategic support across the clean water network, covering both system performance and infrastructure planning. We assess the future hydraulic state of the network in response to population growth and increased demand, support the design and delivery of capital and infrastructure schemes to ensure hydraulic resilience, and work with optimisation teams to enhance overall network efficiency.

Water Recycling (East and West)
Our Water Recycling Business Unit, split into East and West regions, is responsible for the collection, conveyance, and treatment of wastewater across an extensive network. We operate over 76,000 km of sewerage infrastructure and 1,163 treatment centres, ensuring safe and sustainable discharge to the environment while driving innovation and environmental performance.

Caring and investing in you

Our values have been embedded at Barhale for over 40 years, and they are our guiding principles regarding how we care and invest in people.  Our values are our commitment to being a people-centric company.

As a Gold Investors in People company and a Sunday Times 100 Best Company to Work For, we are committed to investing in people. We are passionate about creating a working environment where people are supported throughout their careers, where people can enjoy security and be part of a company that cares about them.

From the moment you join us, your well-being and career aspirations will be supported by.

• Competitive salary
• Company Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical
• Profit share scheme
• 25 days of annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days
• 8 hours leave of absence for volunteering
• Employee Assistance Programme to support your mental, physiological and financial wellbeing
• Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
• Company car/green car scheme/car allowance/Van (dependent on position)
• Leadership & management training and coaching
• Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression
• Development supported by internal and externally delivered training
• Continuous service awards

We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make every day taste better.

We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

We are currently looking for an Engineering Programme Manager who will be responsible for leading engineering projects across our Boston, Spalding and Wisbech sites.

Our Boston and Spalding sites produce ready to eat and bulk salad products and our Wisbech site is responsible for manufacturing premium chilled ready to cook meals.

As the Engineering Programme Manager, you will have two Engineering Project Managers reporting directly to you, responsible for delivery on-site and you will be managing the budget across all three sites, overseeing 40+ projects of varying sizes.

Your other responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Apply governance across the cluster capital programme ensuring that the Capital management process is understood, deployed, and executed in line with the businesses Capital management policy
• Partnering with the Site General Manager's and Operations Director to raise the cluster capital plan and then monitor and control capital investment spending to ensure cash flow is both aligned with agreed budgets and appropriately distributed across the life cycle of the project
• Oversee the delivery of multi-site or large strategic projects to ensure the delivery of agreed return on the capital investment objectives
• Proactively manage end-to-end project or change implementation within well-defined timelines and budgets, covering all facets of implementation, ensuring that project objectives are achieved

As our Engineering Programme Manager, you will be confident managing a team and will be able to draw on your experience of overseeing multiple sites whilst also being comfortable in a hands-on capacity.

You will also have:

• Previous evidence of performing highly complex work activities covering engineering, technical, financial, health, safety, and quality aspects
• A subject matter expert to advise the group (Mech, Elec, Civil, Automation, CDM, DSEAR ect)
• An understanding of relevant technologies and practices in an FMCG environment
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrable experience of working with a robust project and programme methodology/best practice
• Experience with a recognised project delivery method such as PMI/PRINCE2
• Familiarity with technologies: Data Centre Hosting, Managed Infrastructure Services, ERP Implementation, BI Implementation to look for alignment and efficiencies with local manufacturing requirements

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.