Capital Planning Co-Ordinator
Salary: circa £40,000
Location: Peterborough, Huntingdon or Norwich/with Hybrid working
Working Hours: Full-time / 37 hours
Who are we?
Integrated Maintenance and Repair of Water Recycling (IMR-WR) provide repair and maintenance services on the wastewater network infrastructure across the Anglian Region, including planned and emergency works, construction of new assets, surveys, blockages, and ancillary/support activities.
Key deliverables that IMR WR provide include maintenance and repair of sewers, rising mains, manholes, SUDS (sustainable urban drainage systems), street furniture, construction of new assets, surveys (e.g., CCTV), clearance of blockages, and support activities (e.g. reinstatement, tankering, technical support).
The alliance is comprised of five partners: Anglian Water, Clancy Docwra, Claret Civil Engineering, Public Sewer Services Utilities and Danaher & Walsh.
What you will be doing as our Capital Planning Co-Ordinator
You’ll be responsible for development an integrated schedule of works for Capital Delivery in the Alliance. It will involve the creation, management, and updating of a master schedule of works that can be used to communicate the development of Capital Delivery throughout the process steps required to complete the work. It will work closely with the Central Programme Manager, Programme Lead, Planned Works Manager and Planning Compliance Lead. Coordination is expected to occur with the Partner Operational Managers to ensure the schedule is accurate and realistic.
This Capital Delivery schedule of works will feed as a sub-schedule into accurate updating of the Alliance Accepted Programme and will be referred to by the Partner Management Group to ensure outputs, resources, and forecasts are realistic and committed to.
The role provides independent challenge, governance oversight, and risk-based prioritisation of work, ensuring delivery decisions optimise performance outcomes, regulatory compliance, and support the Alliance NEC contractual position.
This role will also support the effective management of Engineering resources, working across alliance partners, client stakeholders and internal functions to balance risk, cost, and delivery across the updated; monthly, quarterly and annual programme.
The role is critical in ensuring that both Programme and Operational decisions are evidence-led, commercially sound, as well as aligned to Anglian Water’s strategic objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Develop, maintain and control integrated programme and project schedules across the Alliance Capital Delivery portfolio
Create and update detailed project plans, including milestones, dependencies, critical paths and resource requirements
Monitor programme progress against approved baselines and identify schedule variances
Analyse schedule performance and provide early warning of potential delays, risks and opportunities
Lead the risk-based prioritisation of Capital work programmes, engineering resource allocation, and ensuring alignment between operational delivery teams and scheduled works
Collaborate with partner Parcel Managers and Engineers to ensure scopes are developed in line with the agreed delivery milestones (DM1 – 3)
Work with Partner Operation Managers and Parcel Managers to embed risk management into project and programme delivery
Lead and influence cross-functional teams and alliance partners without direct authority
Key Skills & Behaviours
Demonstrable experience using enterprise planning software such as Microsoft Project and/or Primavera P6
Experienced in CDM and Engineering process that enable Capital Delivery
Significant experience in working with all project management disciplines (time; cost; quality)
Experience working within NEC or similar contract frameworks
Strong understanding of commercial risk, cost and value optimisation
Experience in regulated utility / infrastructure environment
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and challenge…