Design, Proposals & Projects Manager

Company Description

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Veolia's Water Technology Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy. Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

Job Description

The Design, Proposals & Projects Manager will set the strategy for, and lead multi-disciplinary Design-Proposals and Project teams, delivering water purification projects from concept to completion across a broad range of UK customers and industries and within operational frameworks and quality management systems

The Design and Proposals team develop water purification proposals from scope appraisal including tender
evaluations, system design, selection and sizing of equipment and resources, estimating and proposal writing.

The project management and delivery team delivers turnkey projects through procurement activity, sub-
contractor management and supervision, system commissioning and handover to customer operations and the Purite service team.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and manage the Purite Design-Proposals and Project delivery teams
• Ensure compliance with all VEOLIA Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental Policies
• Ensure a profitable Engineering P&L is sustained and enhanced.
• Delivery of all aspects of project delivery to time, quality and budget targets
• Provide short, medium and long term financial planning.
• Owner-responsibility of Purite engineering processes
• Support and guide BDM’s and D&P engineers to ensure customer scope requirements are understood and Purite response is matching, achievable, and adds value.
• Assist with Design and Proposals activity as/when required.
• Provide clear project design detail guidance to D&P engineers to meet scope requirements, consistent with appropriate engineering standards.
• Lead contract evaluation and negotiation with Legal assistance.
• Advocate to all stakeholders to provide value-added, differential advantage in proposals and products focusing on:
  • Standards and contract compliance
  • How we can decrease total cost of operation
  • Improve operating efficiency
  • Minimise Environmental, Health and Safety issues
  • Enhance customer competitive advantage
• Actively lead / participate in peer reviews of proposals prior to submission according to Purite Engineering processes.
• Upon receipt of orders, ensure Project Kick off meetings are held with all stakeholders and provide technical guidance and ownership during these meetings
• Ensure all projects have a plan to include a Service contract
• Identify and drive through the capture of success criteria and follow up with written case studies.
• Consolidate project feedback to procurement, production, and technical Development so efficiencies and product improvements can be made.
• Provide on and off site support to BDM’s to assist with sales process and after sales troubleshooting as/when required.
• Actively participate in Operations and management meetings
• Assist with ISO audits and lead Engineering team activity
• Promote training and personnel development of teams

Qualifications

• Ideally degree qualified in Chemical or Process engineering with knowledge of water chemistry and fluid dynamics.
• Demonstrated capability to deliver strategic projects, including contract management
• Experienced team leader, preferably of a multi-discipline team.
• Familiar with current HSE legislation and best practices, incl. CDM standards.
• A detailed understanding of process design and project management requirements.
• Excellent communication skills required
• Proven planning, organizational and implementation skills ideally involving cross functional networking

The post holder must hold a full UK driving licence and must be able to travel and stay overnight as required

Additional Information

At Veolia Group, we know that at certain crucial moments in life, we all need a little help, protection and support.
That's why we are proud to offer our innovative Veolia Cares program, which demonstrates our commitment to our employees. From the very first day of employment, this commitment is reflected in an array of benefits that is generous, and relevant.

These include:

Health & Welfare:

Holiday allowance 26 days plus Bank Holidays with the option to buy or sell additional days off
Private Healthcare - currently BUPA, with an option to add your family members
Dental Plan providing cover or monetary cash back on appointments and treatments
Enhanced Maternity / Primary Care pay of 13 weeks full pay from Day 1, increasing with time served
Enhanced Paternity / Secondary Care pay of 2 weeks full pay from Day 1
Adoption Leave of 13 weeks full pay for Parental, and 2 weeks full Co-parental pay from day 1 of employment
Support for Carers offering flexibility for longer term caring needs such as considering options of remote work, flexible work hours, adjusted schedules, and paid or unpaid leave
A Lifestyle Account where we put in £60 to start you off, then match you £ for £ on every activity you buy up to £360
Discounted Gym Memberships
All employees receive one day of paid volunteering leave per year

Monetary Benefits:

Leading pension contribution of 10% of your earnings from us every month, doubling your
own contribution of 5%
Option to buy shares at preferential rates
Salary Sacrifice Schemes
The Bigger Picture - protecting you and your loved ones in the longer term
Industry leading Life Insurance providing you 4 x your salary as a benefit paid to your
nominated person(s)
Income Protection that covers you for 5 years at up to 60% of your salary, with 2 x your
salary as a lump sum should you be unable to return to work

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.