Jane Simpson

Jane was appointed as Commercial, Engineering and Capital Delivery Director in 2023, responsible for the commercial directorate as well as Engineering and Capital Delivery division, to deliver the company’s £2 billion capital programme.

Before joining United Utilities, Jane was Operations Director at Royal Mail, responsible for the north of the UK’s field operations, Capital Delivery Director at Severn Trent Water, and the first female Chief Engineer at Network Rail.

In May 2016 Jane was nominated into the Top 20 inspirational women in rail, in July 2016 she was included in the Daily Telegraph’s Top 50 women in Engineering and in 2017 was in the Financial Times and Cranwell’s 100 women to watch.