Junior Project Manager jobs in United Kingdom

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a Project Manager to join us at Chippenham. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose‑led company, please read on.

• Responsible for delivering assigned projects to agreed Orbia’s high standards of H&S and adherence to safe working practices in accordance with legislation
• Manage internal and external stake holders, building strong relationships with sub-contractors and preferred suppliers, including the development of plans and budgets.
• Deliver projects through to completion on time and within budget and to the satisfaction of all stakeholders, ensuring cost effective solutions which meet our quality expectations can be delivered to our clients.
• Identify, reduce and manage all risks including technical, statutory, health and safety, commercial or otherwise associated with each project.
• Manage appropriate communication with key personnel.
• Provide leadership and on the ground project management including supporting and coaching for project activity to operations teams engaged with projects. Working with other operational managers to ensure the collaborative deployment of the projects.
• Lead plant Capex investment activity through project feasibility studies and proposal development.
• Manage, motivate and develop a team of three project engineers.
• Share and implement best practice engineering and process improvement solutions.
• Provide leadership in identifying and specifying project opportunities and in delivering contractual commitments on secured projects.

• Engineering graduate (B.Tech or BE) - Essential
• Project Management Degree - Desirable
• Lean manufacturing - Desirable
• Previous experience with an Engineering/Manufacturing background
• Previous experience of delivering all levels of projects to completion on time, in budget and to the satisfaction of all stakeholders
• Identify, reduce and manage all risks (technical, statutory H&S commercial and otherwise) associated with each project
• Experience of developing strong relationships with internal stakeholders, vendors and contractors to achieve goals
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills with strong operational awareness

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future‑proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin. Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura‑Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.