Overview
Programme Manager – Brighton
Job Description
Costain have won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. This is a senior management appointment, and we are looking for someone with real drive and passion to further strengthen the CMDP relationship with SWS and take the framework to the next level.
Reporting directly to the Programme Director (Wastewater) you’ll be accountable for managing all site-based activities ensuring projects are delivered on time, to the required standards and within budget, including the co-ordinating of site works and management of subcontractors resulting in successful project completion.
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Responsibilities
- Manage the CMDP wastewater team in all aspects of delivery
- Provide strategic and professional guidance to Project Managers, Construction Managers, and wider members of the team
- Actively champion wellbeing, safety and environment performance, and compliance throughout your team to create a safety culture to ensure Zero LTI and RIDDOR Incidents
- Communicate extensively across all stakeholders within SWS, and internally within CMDP to leverage the maximum potential of CMDP in the AMP8 programme of works
- Develop and maintain a high-performance culture across the CMDP team, delivering efficiencies and continuous improvement
- Provide whole life oversight and accountability for the successful delivery of wastewater projects, through design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and handover
- Deliver commercial and financial performance in line with budget expectations
- Promote and actively demonstrate collaborative behaviours within the CMDP JV team
Qualifications
- Degree level qualification in a Civil Engineering allied subject or HND in Civil Engineering and vocational training in Engineering
- Ability to positively engage and build strong stakeholder and partner relationships to achieve mutual success
- Significant amount of contract delivery experience where you have successfully managed a regional framework of multiple projects of a complex or critical nature
- Previous experience in water/wastewater treatment plants
- An engaging leader of people with extensive line management and development of people
- Excellent knowledge, and experience of CDM and Construction & Engineering Management
- Excellent knowledge of contractual forms used for collaborative project delivery
Solutions focussed
- Solid commercial, financial and analytical skills
- Experience with Digital Strategy in construction
- Chartered (or working towards) with an engineering, commercial or construction institution
About Us
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.