Senior Project Manager - Southampton, United Kingdom - Costain Group PLC

Description

Costain is looking to strengthen its CMDP Delivery team with the appointment of a Senior Project Manager to work in the Hampshire region.

About The Project
CMDP is a joint venture between Costain and MWHT and delivers a range of schemes to maintain and improve Southern Water's water supply and wastewater treatment works in the eastern half its region (Kent & Sussex) Key Responsibilities
Select, lead, direct, and develop a high-performing team of project managers & project/area delivery team(s) within your portfolio of projects
Establish excellent relationships with the CMDP and client teams
As an operational leader, promote a culture of efficiency and continuous improvement, both within your team and across the framework service
Provide whole life oversight and accountability for the successful delivery of projects and services, through design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and handover as required
Actively champion wellbeing, safety and environment performance, compliance, and continuous improvement across the project portfolio and throughout your team
Provide leadership to create a safety culture to ensure Zero LTI and RIDDOR Incidents
Work closely with the commercial & supply chain team, ensuring engagement from tender through to delivery to achieve commercial performance requirements
Ensure a clear chain of communication across all stakeholders within CMDP, ensuring engagement across strategic & operational stakeholders
Ensure all projects and services comply fully with CMDP governance processes
Champion the use of our performance and operational data and digital tools available to drive operational decisions and performance About you
Experienced operational, delivery focused leader
Water/Wastewater experience (essential)
Clean water experience (desirable)
Significant amount of practical experience where you have successfully managed and delivered a framework of multiple projects of a complex or critical nature, on major UK infrastructure schemes
Ability to build trusted relationships with key client stakeholders, within your team and across the Framework & Costain group
An engaging people manager
Excellent knowledge, and experience of CDM and Construction & Engineering Management
Strong People and Leadership Skills
Good problem-solving skills, able to provide solutions and direction
Solid commercial, financial and analytical skills
Flexibility and adaptability to be able to respond rapidly to unexpected events, having the ability to shape our response appropriately

Qualifications and Training
HNC/HND or degree in a relevant engineering discipline
SMSTS qualification
NEC PM accreditation (preferred)
Association of Project Management APMP (preferred)

About Costain

At Costain, we help to improve people's lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet to thrive.

We work together to shape, create, and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the UK's infrastructure ecosystem across energy, water, transportation and defence markets.Through our collaboration with customers, partners, communities, and wider industry we will deliver an infrastructure fit for a better future.

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