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
- Flexible working arrangements
- Annual salary review
- Continuous service awards