Self-Lay Project Liaison Manager

We are Self Lay; our market share is growing year on year as SLP, and NAVs are becoming an increasingly popular delivery route for developers. We are part of Development Services delivering infrastructure across our regions. This includes installation of new water mains for housing developments, water mains diversions & reinforcements, service connections, and metering.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Self-Lay & NAV team. You will drive collaborative working and be the fundamental support for our Self- Lay Providers (SLP) and New Appointments and Variations (NAV) customers. Whilst always being an advocate for Anglian Water, ensuring that our standards are met and maintained.

You will be key to managing the whole construction project lifespan from design through to final cost reconciliation. Ensuring a smooth journey for our customers whilst monitoring and managing project budgets. This is an exciting role, where no two days are the same. Stakeholder management skills will be vital to provide high quality and effective internal and external engagement. Teamwork is a must, once trained you will be given a geographical patch, but we have a country over club culture.

Working collaboratively across Developer Services teams, Operational teams, our Contract Partners Self-Lay and NAV customers you will maintain smooth and efficient workflow processes preventing silo working.  Effective communication skills are essential to liaise with people across many teams and levels within the business and external stakeholders. 

Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent (preferably in a relevant subject such as Engineering) and demonstrate significant Project Management and commercial awareness. Alongside this ideally you will have experience in:

• Actively seek to be Safer Every Day
• CDM Construction knowledge
• Ability to build customer relationships
• A team player
• Attention to detail
• Highly organised mean you can managing multiple projects at once
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to adapt and change to find solutions
• A water distribution engineering background would be an advantage