Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Costain provides Engineering and Design services to the Energy, Water, Defence and Transport Sectors. We have exciting opportunities available to join our growing Energy team delivering upstream and midstream oil and gas projects to optimise our clients’ assets and extend their useful life, both onshore and offshore.

We are seeking Study Managers experienced in delivering front end scopes, starting at the earliest stages in project development, including feasibility assessments, concept selection and Pre-FEED studies.

In this role, the Study Manager will lead multi-disciplinary teams across one or more studies, with clients ranging from major energy companies to specialist project developers.

The Study Manager will in most cases provide the main interface with the client’s project team, and will work collaboratively to achieve desired outcomes, building strong relationships and growing workstreams and new opportunities.

Costain’s Energy team delivers optimised solutions to customers in the energy production, energy transition and related industries, including oil & gas production, energy storage, carbon capture, hydrogen production and fuel switching, and emissions reduction. The team is focused on finding the best solutions in the earliest phases of projects and, where necessary, to develop technologies required for delivery of these solutions. The team includes specialists in process, mechanical, safety and environmental design, working closely with the wider engineering teams in Costain and collaboratively with customers and partners.

This role will be based in our Aberdeen office 3 days a week.

Responsibilities

• To manage delivery of studies in the early phases of project development, with accountability for the quality, budget and schedule.
• To be the primary interface with clients in study delivery and to work collaboratively to develop a full understanding of the project objectives, constraints, options and decision making processes.
• To manage the necessary multi-disciplinary technical and commercial inputs to allow robust study recommendations and decision making, with an understanding of technical and commercial options; health, safety and environmental aspects; cost and schedule impacts and project risk and opportunity.
• To ensure client needs are met and manage any emerging changes to the basis, scope of work, time frames or budgets.
• To assist our clients in the process and energy industries in development of overall strategies to deliver and accelerate the energy transition, supported by innovation and appropriate technologies.
• To identify resource requirements and support in resource planning across a portfolio of projects as appropriate.
• To work with project controls team to provide reporting on project performance both internally and to client.
• To work with cost estimating function to develop estimates of total installed cost, understand level of uncertainty and identify project risks and opportunities.
• To prepare and check key project and technical study deliverables and ensure high levels of quality.
• To support line managers in managing performance and development of engineers and consultants in the team.
• To develop relationships with customers, supply chain and other third parties, and represent Costain in discussions and meetings on proposals, studies and projects.
• To support Business Development in winning repeat business with existing clients and identifying and winning new business from new clients.
• To ensure personal and project compliance with current company policy, relevant legislation and company and customer’s requirements for Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental matters and work in such a manner not to cause personal harm or injury to fellow workers, customer and subcontractor employees or the environment.