Project Manager - Southwest Wales

1. RPS is seeking a dynamic Project Manager to lead our leakage detection contract in Southwest Wales.
2. This key role combines commercial and operational oversight to ensure successful delivery of all contract objectives while aligning with legal and client requirements and driving business growth.
3. You’ll be joining a diverse community and a company that puts its people first and prioritises their wellbeing. 

RPS is seeking a dynamic Project Manager to lead our leakage detection contract in Southwest Wales. This key role combines commercial and operational oversight to ensure successful delivery of all contract objectives while aligning with legal and client requirements and driving business growth.

What You’ll Be Doing:

As the primary liaison with clients and a leader within the Asset Survey and Inspection team, you will ensure exceptional service delivery and efficient management of supervisors, team leaders, and field teams. You will be pivotal in providing accurate performance data and quality analysis to improve our leakage detection services.

This role demands a commercially savvy and proactive approach to stakeholder management, fostering innovation, exceeding targets, and delivering value. Strong communication and a collaborative, persuasive style are essential to drive initiatives and achieve success.

Who We’re Looking For?

• Someone with extensive experience and professional competence ay managing at this level in a water utility service industry.
• Having the ability to be successful in an often-unpredictable operational environment, managing and motivating high performing operational teams.
• Experience of monitoring performance, with the ability to analyse data to identify improvements and successfully identify continuous improvement and implement change.
• Able to manage multiple tasks, prioritising activities to ensure successful delivery, beating expectation.
• Be very personable, with outstanding communication skills, with the ability to influence client and business strategy.
• Computer literate in Microsoft 360 Suite and Work Management Systems and applications.

Qualifications:

• Degree or equivalent in a relevant subject desirable.
• Membership/ Affiliation to a relevant Chartered body e.g. ACIWEM; ACMI; ACIW desirable.
• IOSH Leading Safely or Managing Safely or similar.
• Full UK driving license.

Why RPS?

This is an exciting time to join RPS and be involved in providing challenges and opportunities which require innovation, dedication, and team work to help us meet our clients’ needs.

We’re a connected community, working together to achieve exceptional outcomes. We understand the need to work flexibly, empowering our people to create a work life balance that’s right for them. We also understand the importance of collaboration and social connection in the office environment. With agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we trust our people to find the right balance to meet client needs – this is a workplace that works for you.

RPS, A Tetra Tech Company:

Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, on 24 January 2023 RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With over 28,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading, global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market-leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world’s most complex problems.

What’s In It For You?

We’re proud to be an accredited ILM training provider, internationally recognised and providing robust fully accredited professional training programmes - to master’s degree level professional qualifications in leadership & management and executive coaching & mentoring, we support learning and development for everyone.

We understand the need to work flexibly, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we’re happy to talk about flexible working. This is a workplace that works for you

We encourage and value different ideas, perspectives, and styles of thinking. We need a mix of experiences and skills to develop the most innovative ideas. We respect one another and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. You’ll be joining a diverse community and a company that puts its people first and prioritises their wellbeing.