Portfolio Engineering Lead / Programme Engineering Lead

We are looking to strengthen our engineering team with a Programme Engineering Lead /Portfolio Engineering Lead for the AW Major Project. This role will be primarily based out of the Anglian Water region.

You will report directly to the Divisional Engineering Lead and as the Programme Engineering Lead for AW Major Projects you will provide visible, accountable leadership for engineering across a portfolio of work, setting strategic direction, professional standards and measurable delivery outcomes in accordance with the established framework strategy. The role leads design development from feasibility through to handover, integrates client, project and discipline teams, and ensures safe, compliant and commercially effective delivery. It also provides the authority to challenge existing approaches, resolve ambiguity and drive improvement and innovation across framework performance, stakeholder engagement and third-party interfaces.

Leadership, organisation and accountability

• Lead engineering management across the assigned framework and set and lead a clear engineering strategy.
• Define the engineering organisation, single points of accountability and a published Responsibility Assignment Matrix.
• Produce affordable solutions to meet client requirements.
• Promote innovative solutions within delivery ensuring appropriate technical and commercial review and sign off as required.
• Liaise with other engineering leads across the business and JV partner and participate, as required, in wider business activities outside of the framework.

Resource planning and delivery resilience

• Coordinate resource demand with the Divisional Engineering Manager, deployment, workload visibility and delivery priorities with project and discipline leads.
• Maintain a 12-month resource plan covering ramp-up curves, key personnel, succession, contingency, supply chain requirements and regional capacity.
• Monthly engineering financial reporting in line with framework and wider business requirements.

Governance, risk and performance

• Monitor engineering cost, programme, quality, risk and governance performance, escalating issues early and linking cost, carbon and programme reporting.
• Establish decision-making routes, delegated authority, technical-risk ownership and alignment with Anglian Water governance.

Client integration and stakeholder management

• Represent Engineering at Framework Leadership Meetings and maintain effective Anglian Water, operational and third-party interfaces.
• Ensure joint design reviews, risk workshops, planning sessions and asset-data requirements are agreed and managed through connected platforms.

Technical excellence and continuous improvement

• Ensure technical excellence, quality control and compliance across all projects through the governed business management system.
• Manage lessons learned, framework-wide improvements, innovation pipeline, benefits tracking and agreed derogations.

You will be able to operate confidently with framework leaders, senior client representatives and industry stakeholders, acting as the engineering account lead and trusted adviser on strategic technical issues. Lead across teams, disciplines and locations; negotiate at senior level; mentor local leaders; and strengthen the organisation’s regional reputation and influence.

Office based - Travelling within the UK occasionally and occasional home working.