Costain Group
Project Director
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We seek a Project Director, with experience in highly complex, highly regulated environments, ideally with experience in Defence / Nuclear.
Costain improves people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, defence, water and transportation infrastructures. The position will have responsibility for leading a dedicated team of specialists in complex, multi-disciplinary infrastructure integration, including close working and supply chain integration to meet our clients' demanding needs.
Click the link for the job description, responsibilities, and qualifications - PRJC01 - Project Director.pdf
RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsibilities
- Ensures projects are completed to quality, schedule, and budget; anticipating and developing contingency plans to mitigate risks and issues
- Responsible for overall performance including profit and loss across specified customer accounts
- Manages and controls risk and change to meet Costain and client objectives
- Manages stakeholders and project to deliver direct (project) and indirect (e.g., social value) benefits
- Develops effective project delivery organisations and secures sufficiently qualified and experienced personnel to meet the project needs
- Selects, integrates, and assures the supply chain required to meet the project needs
- Assures efficient project execution by leading teams to remove complexity and maximise productivity
- Demonstrates high profile and visible safety leadership. Responsible for ensuring all project requirements are achieved for health, safety, environmental impact mitigation, and security
- Ensures compliance with and continuous improvement of quality management systems
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Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to interface and interact with management and client representatives at all levels
- Experienced in developing strong client and wider stakeholder relationships
- Possesses a recognised degree ‘or’ equivalent experience ‘or’ qualification in a relevant branch of engineering and be a member of an internationally recognised professional Institution
- Has robust and practical experience in integrating multi-disciplinary and external organisations into a high-performance enterprise across the project lifecycle
- Strong Project Management expertise in highly regulated industries with complementary leadership and behavioural management
- Delivery focused with proven experience in achieving project goals whilst maintaining high standards in HSEQ at all times.
- Innovative, adaptive, harnessing data and technology to drive project success
- Conversant with estimating approaches and competent in cost/schedule budget management processes
- Conversant with HR practices/processes
- Proven track record of building teams with different backgrounds and values diverse thinking
- Excellent communication skills
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Security Clearance would be desirable, but the ability to gain SC is essential.
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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