Delivery Manager (Software Engineering)

At Everflow, we’re redefining the utility industry. We're an award-winning, fast-growing company, delivering exceptional and environmentally friendly water and waste services to businesses across the UK. Our mission is to simplify utilities, saving our customers time, money, and energy so they can focus on what matters most: achieving their business goals. 

Everflow isn’t like other companies. Sure, we have perks like free coffee, break rooms, and ping pong tables, but what truly sets us apart is our values. We encourage our people to be their authentic selves and embrace the freedom to innovate. At Everflow, it’s not just about delivering exceptional results for our customers; it’s about cultivating a fulfilling, balanced work environment where great things happen. 

The Role 

We are looking for a hands-on and proactive Delivery Manager to support the effective delivery of our software and systems, for one or more of our software engineering teams and specialist disciplines, some of which may be from our network of augmentation partners.  You will own end to end delivery predictability providing transparent forecasts and delivery metrics.  Partnering closely with Product and Engineering leadership and as a peer to our Engineering leads, you will enable high-pace delivery without compromising quality or sustainable team health.  This is not a remote role. You will need to be able to commute to our Peterlee office.

What we are looking for

We are looking for someone who can work proactively and autonomously with a focus on software and systems delivery at pace, adopting project timelines set out by the business, understanding risks and issues, and adapting ways of working to ensure successful delivery to time and budget.  While you will own and facilitate our agile sprint rituals this is not a “Scrum Master” role, you will have a commercially aware project delivery focus.

You will:

Own demand intake and backlog readiness, supporting prioritisation
Own delivery forecasting and managing capacity utilisation with stakeholders
Producing metrics and insights, providing daily/weekly/monthly reporting telling the story in plain English.
Maintain RAID, drive return to green plans and proactively identify and resolve impediments.
Run and continuously improve our rituals and ways of working.

Track and manage delivery on a daily basis matching delivery to timesheet data, ensuring we deliver to time and budget
Undertake supplier management, holding them to account for delivery
To be successful in the role:

You will need to demonstrate your understanding of delivering at pace using various methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, in a software engineering environment.
You will need to demonstrate your understanding of managing risks and issues, how you will work proactively to assure successful delivery and the provision of KPIs, metrics and reporting.
You will be familiar with Microsoft Azure DevOps for backlog management and reporting.
You will need to detail your plan for the first 90 days. Demonstrating how you will onboard quickly, develop relationships, and begin to show mature successful delivery through adaptability, modernisation, and optimisation.
You will need to demonstrate how you will influence and coach colleagues to ensure your ideas and optimisations land effectively.
Your application will be additionally attractive if you can demonstrate:

The use of AI in support of your role and that of others
Experience in regulated environments
Experience with Supplier Management
Experience in project management
What we can offer

Hybrid working; embrace the flexibility of working at home 3 days per week once you've conquered the probationary period.
Enjoy a secure financial future with up to 7% employer pension contribution. 
Continuous support, personalised development, and top-notch training to fuel your professional journey. 
Opportunity to earn extra with quarterly awards and annual bonuses. 
An amazing reward and recognition system that allows you to redeem gift cards for being recognised. 
Recharge with a generous annual leave of 25 days plus bank holidays 
Flexibility to buy or sell up to 5 days of annual leave.  
Enjoy an extra day of annual leave to celebrate a day that is special to you. 
Enjoy comprehensive life insurance covering you up to 3x your salary. 
Benefit from up to 26 weeks of paid maternity leave or 4 weeks of paid paternity leave. 
Access well-being perks, including a health care cash plan allowing you to claim up to £70 cashback for dental, optical & physio. 
Take advantage of our free onsite gym, café discount, pool table, ping pong table, and arcade machine.  
Enjoy fruit, breakfast, tea, and coffee served daily, as well as our monthly breakfast buffet. 
Look forward to a vibrant social calendar, including summer & Christmas parties, as well as regular team social events. 
Wind down on Fridays with afternoon drinks, a perfect segue into the weekend. 
Free onsite parking, simple & convenient. 
Dive into the future with our electric car scheme—because we're driving towards sustainability. 
Cycle to Work Scheme: Utilise our salary sacrifice scheme to promote health, save money and reduce emissions in your daily commute.
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