Costain Group
MEP Project Director
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The Project Director
The Project Director is accountable for leading the successful delivery of a £600M portfolio of Building and MEP works across 11 assets within the London Tunnels Section of HS2. This role spans the full lifecycle—from design, through construction, to commissioning—ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality delivery aligned with client objectives.
Responsibilities
Delivery Leadership
- Take full accountability for the end-to-end delivery of Building and MEP scopes (£600M) across 11 assets, including shafts and headhouses.
- Overseeing all project phases: design integration, construction execution, testing, and commissioning.
- Ensure delivery meets programme, cost, quality, and safety targets, driving improvements through each phase of the works.
Strategic Supply Chain Management
- Build and maintain strong, strategic relationships with key supply chain partners.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture across all delivery partners.
- Drive supply chain alignment with programme objectives, promoting innovation and efficiency.
Client & Stakeholder Engagement
- Understand client objectives, drivers, and success criteria and align delivery strategy and execution plans to meet or exceed client expectations.
- Establish and maintain trusted, senior-level relationships with the client leadership team.
Team Leadership & Culture
- Shape, lead, and develop a high-performing multi-disciplinary team.
- Promote an open, inclusive, and collaborative culture that empowers individuals and supports continuous development.
- Provide clear direction, coaching, and leadership to senior project staff.
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Governance & Performance
- Ensure strong project governance, controls, and reporting are in place across all assets.
- Manage risk proactively, ensuring mitigation strategies are implemented effectively.
- Drive continuous improvement across delivery, safety, and operational performance.
Required Knowledge
- Proven experience delivering large-scale infrastructure or construction programmes (£100M+ ideally £500M+)
- Strong background in Building and MEP systems delivery within complex major infrastructure environments
- Demonstrated ability to lead multi-asset or multi-project portfolios
- Excellent client-facing and stakeholder management skills
- Track record of building and leading high-performing teams and supply chains
- Strong commercial, contractual, and risk management capability
Behaviours and Attributes
- Strategic thinker with strong delivery focus
- Collaborative and relationship-driven
- Resilient, decisive, and outcome-oriented
- Committed to safety, quality, and continuous improvement
- Passionate about developing people and building capability
About Costain
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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