Graduate Project Manager
hace 2 días
Plymouth
Graduate Project Manager Location: Exeter Salary: £30,000 Start Date: September 2026 Application Deadline: 18th April 2026 Who we are... At Pennon, we literally bring water to life. We keep taps running, protect the environment, and support the communities we serve across the South West. Delivering this means managing complex, high-value projects that safeguard water quality, improve resilience, and keep our essential services operating every day. Our project teams plan, coordinate, and deliver the solutions that make all of this possible. We care about doing things safely, responsibly, and well. We learn, collaborate, experiment - and we'll welcome your ideas from day one. If you're diligent, curious, organised, and motivated to see projects through from concept to completion, you'll thrive here. What you'd be doing... As a Graduate Project Manager, you'll play a key role in shaping and delivering projects that have tangible impact across our network, environment, and communities. You'll develop core project management capability while gaining real responsibility from early stages. In this role, you will: Deliver Time-Cost-Quality Outcomes • Support the planning and delivery of projects to ensure they are completed on time, within a controlled budget, and to the required quality standards, • Help define project scopes, milestones, and schedules, ensuring clarity for delivery teams and partners, • Monitor project spend, financial forecasts, and cost controls, escalating risks earlyDrive Project Performance, • Track progress across live projects, ensuring tasks, dependencies, and deliverables stay on track, • Identify emerging risks or issues using data, stakeholder input, and site information, • Work with engineers, contractors, suppliers and internal teams to maintain momentum and solve problems collaborativelyEnsure Compliance & Good Governance, • Support delivery of projects that meet regulatory obligations (e.g., environmental, water quality, health and safety), • Maintain accurate project documentation, approvals, change records, and audit trails, • Uphold our safety-first culture across all stages of deliveryCollaborate & Influence, • Build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders - technical and non-technical, • Facilitate discussions, challenge assumptions, and ensure everyone is aligned on priorities, • Communicate clearly through reports, briefings, presentations, and project updatesLearn & Develop, • Gain broad exposure to how the water industry plans and delivers infrastructure, • Develop professional project management skills (scope, risk, cost, schedule, governance), • Have a degree in Engineering, Project Management, Environmental Science, Business, or a similar technical or analytical discipline, • Are diligent, organised, and able to bring structure to complex information, • Enjoy understanding how systems work and are confident asking questions to get clarity, • Communicate well with different audiences, from contractors to senior leaders, • Can make sound judgements based on evidence, data, and risk awareness, • Put people and safety first in your decision making, • Care about delivering outcomes that support sustainability and long-term value, • A structured graduate programme that builds project leadership skills, • Mentoring and support, including a dedicated buddy and access to experienced project managers, • Real project responsibility, with opportunities to lead workstreams that deliver visible value to communities, • Competitive salary and benefits package, • Work with meaning - projects that protect the environment, improve resilience and support essential public services JBRP1_UKTJ