Head of Programme Construction at Mwh Treatment in Peterborough, England, United Kingdom | Kablio

Role

Description

program governance

cost control

digital delivery

constructability review

performance oversight

project delivery

Provide governance and consistency across all construction programmes.
Build strong relationships across Anglian Water, Alliance partners and key external stakeholders.
Drive improvements in productivity, waste reduction and embodied carbon.
Champion a positive, open, and inclusive culture where safety and continuous improvement thrive.
Maintain strong cost control, forecasting and commercial governance.
Monitor and manage supplier and subcontractor performance.
Embed digital and innovative approaches into project delivery.
Maintain oversight of end-to-end construction performance across a major investment programme.
Represent construction at senior Alliance forums and influence key delivery decisions.
Lead compliance with CDM, HSWA and all relevant SHEQ standards.
Promote a zero-accident ethos and ensure consistent safety performance across all sites.
Ensure projects are delivered on time, to budget and to exceptional quality standards.
Support supplier selection, contract management and value-driven negotiations.
Lead constructability reviews and fit-for-assembly processes to enhance safety and buildability.
Support resource planning and capability development across all construction functions.
Lead regional construction delivery through a team of Heads of Construction.
Ensure all contractual and compliance obligations are met.

Requirements

degree

infrastructure

communication

leadership

health & safety

commercial

Degree-level qualification in a construction-related discipline
Significant experience delivering complex, multi-disciplinary construction programmes (ideally in water/wastewater or major infrastructure)
Outstanding communication and stakeholder influence
Proven ability to lead large teams and drive high performance
Strong technical knowledge of CDM, Health & Safety and environmental standards
Excellent commercial awareness and programme management capability

Benefits

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Training + Development

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Interview process

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Visa Sponsorship

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Security clearance

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Company

Overview

2021

Year Joined RSK Group

Merged with RSK Group, enhancing its capabilities and frameworks while retaining brand and leadership.

1,000+

Team Strength

Operates with a team of over 1,000 professionals across major UK water frameworks.

100 Direct Workforce

Manages a historic multi-trade direct workforce of around 100 people in asset management roles.

With roots stretching back to 1820, draws on two centuries of innovation in the UK water sector.
Operates as a turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction specialist, delivering projects from multi-million-pound schemes to capital maintenance.
Teams work across six major UK water frameworks, often in joint ventures and alliances.
Typical projects include water reclamation and wastewater treatment plants, delivered through integrated design-and-build contracts.
Known for pushing digital delivery techniques, winning awards for innovation and asset performance strategies.

Culture + Values

To deliver work safely and sustainably, while making a positive difference to our people, the environment, our clients and the communities we serve and live in.
Keeping safe, looking out for each other and maintaining an Injury Free Environment.
Working and collaborating with clients, partners and supply chains who share our safety, environmental and quality commitments for excellence.
Focusing on well-being and mental health, by ensuring we support our people to maintain a work/life harmony so they can always bring their best.
Providing affordable, low-carbon and nature-based solutions to secure a long-term future with our Clients.
We build trust, providing transparent interactions, professional, resilient, high-quality solutions, for our clients, that underpin our proud heritage.
We are uncompromising in our ethical behaviour, acting with fairness, integrity and making the right decisions, even though they may be tough.
We are one team; respecting and valuing strength from individual’s diversity, experiences and ideas, rallying around a common purpose.
Our people learn from each other and are supported via development to be the best they can be, because we trust them.
Collaborating across our business and our supply chain, we leverage collective expertise for our clients, their customers and communities we serve.
By continuously innovating, improving our delivery and solutions, because what we do together matters, we find solutions and commit to driven delivery, achieving results for our stakeholders.
Technology will remain at the heart of our delivery, as a facilitator of connectivity and efficiency.

Environment + Sustainability

97% waste diversion

Construction Waste Management

Over 97% of construction waste has been diverted from landfills over the past five years.

29.4% emissions drop

Carbon Reduction Achievements

A significant 29.4% reduction in carbon emissions intensity has been achieved since 2014.

31.3% footprint increase

Operational Carbon Footprint

Despite a 31.3% increase in operational carbon footprint in 2024, emissions intensity per turnover decreased by 2.17%.

ISO 14001 certified management system governs environmental expectations and requirements.
Waste strategy of eliminate, reduce, reuse and recycle applied through full project lifecycle.
Calculated organisational carbon footprint for the last ten years, externally verified through Achilles CEMARS/Carbon Reduce scheme.
Target to be operational Net Zero Carbon by 2030, with a published Route Map detailing actions required.

Inclusion & Diversity

April 2025

Real Living Wage Commitment

The company is committed to providing the Real Living Wage to all employees, excluding apprenticeships and placements.

1,250 employees

Team Composition

The company employs over 1,250 employees, including 350 in-house engineers and 700 delivery staff.

Promote a healthy workforce.
Inspire a culture of inclusion.
Connect, engage and communicate.
Attract and retain great people.
Help our people be the best they can be.
Foster a culture of zero harm with rigorous health & safety processes aligned to BS OHSAS 45001.
Employee engagement includes mental health first aiders, occupational health monitoring and an Employee Assistance Programme (per Best Companies profile).
Regular communication via CEO‑led briefings, roadshows, and internal awards (Treatment Excellence Awards) to build community and connection.
Graduate and Apprenticeship scheme supports career progression and development into sector leadership roles.

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Our Legacy

Our Experts (Careers)

Our Innovation

Role

Description

program governance

cost control

digital delivery

constructability review

performance oversight

project delivery

Provide governance and consistency across all construction programmes.
Build strong relationships across Anglian Water, Alliance partners and key external stakeholders.
Drive improvements in productivity, waste reduction and embodied carbon.
Champion a positive, open, and inclusive culture where safety and continuous improvement thrive.
Maintain strong cost control, forecasting and commercial governance.
Monitor and manage supplier and subcontractor performance.
Embed digital and innovative approaches into project delivery.
Maintain oversight of end-to-end construction performance across a major investment programme.
Represent construction at senior Alliance forums and influence key delivery decisions.
Lead compliance with CDM, HSWA and all relevant SHEQ standards.
Promote a zero-accident ethos and ensure consistent safety performance across all sites.
Ensure projects are delivered on time, to budget and to exceptional quality standards.
Support supplier selection, contract management and value-driven negotiations.
Lead constructability reviews and fit-for-assembly processes to enhance safety and buildability.
Support resource planning and capability development across all construction functions.
Lead regional construction delivery through a team of Heads of Construction.
Ensure all contractual and compliance obligations are met.

Requirements

degree

infrastructure

communication

leadership

health & safety

commercial

Degree-level qualification in a construction-related discipline
Significant experience delivering complex, multi-disciplinary construction programmes (ideally in water/wastewater or major infrastructure)
Outstanding communication and stakeholder influence
Proven ability to lead large teams and drive high performance
Strong technical knowledge of CDM, Health & Safety and environmental standards
Excellent commercial awareness and programme management capability

Benefits

Information not given or found

Training + Development

Information not given or found

Interview process

Information not given or found

Visa Sponsorship

Information not given or found

Security clearance

Information not given or found

People also searched

Company

Overview

2021

Year Joined RSK Group

Merged with RSK Group, enhancing its capabilities and frameworks while retaining brand and leadership.

1,000+

Team Strength

Operates with a team of over 1,000 professionals across major UK water frameworks.

100 Direct Workforce

Manages a historic multi-trade direct workforce of around 100 people in asset management roles.

With roots stretching back to 1820, draws on two centuries of innovation in the UK water sector.
Operates as a turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction specialist, delivering projects from multi-million-pound schemes to capital maintenance.
Teams work across six major UK water frameworks, often in joint ventures and alliances.
Typical projects include water reclamation and wastewater treatment plants, delivered through integrated design-and-build contracts.
Known for pushing digital delivery techniques, winning awards for innovation and asset performance strategies.

Culture + Values

To deliver work safely and sustainably, while making a positive difference to our people, the environment, our clients and the communities we serve and live in.
Keeping safe, looking out for each other and maintaining an Injury Free Environment.
Working and collaborating with clients, partners and supply chains who share our safety, environmental and quality commitments for excellence.
Focusing on well-being and mental health, by ensuring we support our people to maintain a work/life harmony so they can always bring their best.
Providing affordable, low-carbon and nature-based solutions to secure a long-term future with our Clients.
We build trust, providing transparent interactions, professional, resilient, high-quality solutions, for our clients, that underpin our proud heritage.
We are uncompromising in our ethical behaviour, acting with fairness, integrity and making the right decisions, even though they may be tough.
We are one team; respecting and valuing strength from individual’s diversity, experiences and ideas, rallying around a common purpose.
Our people learn from each other and are supported via development to be the best they can be, because we trust them.
Collaborating across our business and our supply chain, we leverage collective expertise for our clients, their customers and communities we serve.
By continuously innovating, improving our delivery and solutions, because what we do together matters, we find solutions and commit to driven delivery, achieving results for our stakeholders.
Technology will remain at the heart of our delivery, as a facilitator of connectivity and efficiency.

Environment + Sustainability

97% waste diversion

Construction Waste Management

Over 97% of construction waste has been diverted from landfills over the past five years.

29.4% emissions drop

Carbon Reduction Achievements

A significant 29.4% reduction in carbon emissions intensity has been achieved since 2014.

31.3% footprint increase

Operational Carbon Footprint

Despite a 31.3% increase in operational carbon footprint in 2024, emissions intensity per turnover decreased by 2.17%.

ISO 14001 certified management system governs environmental expectations and requirements.
Waste strategy of eliminate, reduce, reuse and recycle applied through full project lifecycle.
Calculated organisational carbon footprint for the last ten years, externally verified through Achilles CEMARS/Carbon Reduce scheme.
Target to be operational Net Zero Carbon by 2030, with a published Route Map detailing actions required.

Inclusion & Diversity

April 2025

Real Living Wage Commitment

The company is committed to providing the Real Living Wage to all employees, excluding apprenticeships and placements.

1,250 employees

Team Composition

The company employs over 1,250 employees, including 350 in-house engineers and 700 delivery staff.

Promote a healthy workforce.
Inspire a culture of inclusion.
Connect, engage and communicate.
Attract and retain great people.
Help our people be the best they can be.
Foster a culture of zero harm with rigorous health & safety processes aligned to BS OHSAS 45001.
Employee engagement includes mental health first aiders, occupational health monitoring and an Employee Assistance Programme (per Best Companies profile).
Regular communication via CEO‑led briefings, roadshows, and internal awards (Treatment Excellence Awards) to build community and connection.
Graduate and Apprenticeship scheme supports career progression and development into sector leadership roles.

Articles

Our Legacy

Our Experts (Careers)

Our Innovation