Project Manager (Automation)

Location: Waterlooville, UK; travel to customer and project sites is required, including customer-site installation, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.

Salary: £60,000 per annum plus bonus and benefits.

Company

Actemium Automation Hampshire delivers engineering and automation projects supporting essential water industry services and reliable water infrastructure.

What you will do

• Plan, manage, and deliver water-industry automation and engineering projects across their full lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain project programmes, budgets, forecasts, and delivery plans.
• Coordinate internal engineering teams, subcontractors, suppliers, customers, and delivery partners.
• Monitor progress, risks, issues, costs, commercial reporting, documentation, and change control.
• Manage customer communications, meetings, expectations, and progress reporting.
• Support installation, testing, commissioning, and handover while ensuring technical, contractual, quality, health, safety, and environmental requirements are met.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing engineering, automation, or electrical projects, including experience in the water or a related process industry.
• Understanding of project planning, cost control, risk management, and change control.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage competing priorities.
• Strong communication, organisation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Practical and proactive approach to resolving delivery challenges.
• Commitment to safe working practices and high-quality project delivery.
• Willingness to travel to customer and project sites as required.
• Must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application and throughout employment.

Nice to have

• Experience with control systems, instrumentation, or industrial automation.
• Knowledge of water and wastewater treatment processes and industry standards.
• Project management or relevant technical qualification.
• Experience working with frameworks, principal contractors, or multiple delivery partners.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment.
• Bonus, EV car scheme, share scheme, healthcare, pension, and additional benefits.
• Work with customers and project teams to deliver solutions supporting essential water services.

Hiring process

• Visa sponsorship is not available.