Costain Group
Senior Project Manager
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Project Manager
This role will lead a portfolio of projects and tasks across the full project lifecycle, accountable for scope, cost, and schedule management. A key aspect will be developing requests for quotations into scopes for procuring supplier tenders for competed work and evaluating tenders.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring the project is delivered safely, within budget, on programme, and to the required quality
- Managing a dedicated professional team integrated with the client's team
- Ownership of the packages and disciplines
- Delivering to budget and production targets, programme, and specification
- Owning the relationship and maintaining a liaison with the client and the supply chain
- Supporting the manager and the staff under your control
- Maintaining a good working relationship with the client and associated personnel
- Being conversant with all drawings, specifications, and relevant information for works package
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential
- Awareness of NEC Form of Contract and Subcontract
- Understanding of Engineering Principles
- Technical knowledge of construction techniques and best practices
- Significant work experience within a similar role with a main contractor in a highly regulated environment, e.g., delivery of infrastructure or utilities
- Chartered Project Professional or demonstrating working towards achievement
- Commercially astute with practical experience of budgets, forecasts, contract management, procurement, and supply chain performance
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Desirable:
- A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience
- Experience of a nuclear licensed site
- Proficient with integrating multi-discipline teams
- A recognised project management qualification
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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