About the job

Description

Civil Project Manager, Major Water Infrastructure

The Resolute Group is proud to be working with a Utility and Water Project Consultancy to appoint a Civil Engineering Project Manager working on Lincoln and Fens Reservoir programmes. The successful Civil Project Manager will join the project and have experience in delivering a full life cycle project, with involvement in the DCO and ECI phases.

• Location: Occasional Travel to project office in Peterborough 1 day a week
• Hybrid working: Home-based 4 days a week / 1 day a week in the client’s office.
• Salary: £65,000 – £75,000 + package

The Opportunity:

We are supporting a project management consultancy delivering strategic infrastructure programmes across the water and environmental sectors.

With two of the UK’s largest new reservoir projects in over 30 years — the Fens Reservoir (Cambridgeshire) and the Lincolnshire Reservoir, entering their key planning and development phases, we are seeking a Civil Project Manager to play a pivotal role in delivering these nationally significant projects.

You’ll be part of a multi-disciplinary team helping guide these schemes through the Development Consent Order (DCO) and Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) phases, ensuring they are designed, consented, and delivered to world-class standards of safety, sustainability, and technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate civil infrastructure project delivery activities across feasibility, design, and early delivery phases.
• Manage planning, stakeholder engagement, and regulatory submissions for DCO and ECI stages.
• Oversee multidisciplinary teams (engineering, environmental, and commercial) ensuring delivery to agreed milestones.
• Support buildability and value-engineering reviews in collaboration with design and construction partners.
• Interface with client and contractor teams to align technical, commercial, and environmental outcomes.
• Contribute to risk, programme, and cost management through proactive reporting and issue resolution.
• Ensure compliance with national environmental standards and water-sector regulations.

Desired Experienced

• Degree-qualified in Civil Engineering or a related discipline.
• Experience in managing large-scale civil or water infrastructure projects.
• Understanding of Development Consent Order (DCO) and/or Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) processes.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills — able to coordinate between regulators, designers, contractors, and local communities.
• Experience working within a consultancy, client-side, or major contractor environment.
• Ideally, knowledge of reservoir, flood risk, or water supply infrastructure or Heavy Civils.
• Full driving license

PLEASE NOTE

You must be eligible to work and live in the UK to apply for this position.

Apply via this link if you are interested, or contact Phil Crew via LinkedIn or call the Resolute Group on 01332 653 911.

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