Senior Project Manager - Plymouth, United Kingdom - COSTAIN GROUP PLC

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We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join our project in the Southwest where we are a delivery partner on a key infrastructure project.

This is a unique opportunity to be involved in one of the most complex and challenging projects in the UK today, where you will be responsible for management of the complete construction process at site level.


Key Responsibilities

Client

  • Presents proposals to the Client and Contract Board for improvements to the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness operations
  • Overall responsibility for service delivery, ensuring that the Client's objectives as defined in the business plan are delivered
  • Responsible to produce the service plan and programme in line with client expectations of level of service
  • Management of client expectations and requirements within the contract

Commercial

  • Understands commercial drivers, takes accountability along with the Commercial Manager for cost management ensuring that delivery is in line with budget
  • Overall responsibility for the profit and loss accounts and cash flow
  • Able to drive efficiency and continual productivity improvements
  • Proactively manage risk and opportunities

Business Performance/Improvements

  • Overall responsibility for ensuring compliance with governance, process and the management of the business through formal risk management process
  • Understands and champions the delivery of the contract
  • Develops relationships with the client's representatives and deployment and integration of supply chain
  • Overall responsibility for meeting the performance requirements of the Contract and driving lean and continuous improvement programmes

Leadership

  • Champions Sustainability, Safety, Health and Environment and ensures that standards are set, maintained, and continually challenged for improvement in line with expectations
  • Ability to lead an integrated Joint Venture and manage the various interfaces
  • Establishes clear lines of communications throughout the integrated team, defining roles and responsibilities to ensure the efficient use of resources and the delivery of costeffective solutions
  • Champions the development of a Lean culture and use of 'Lean' techniques within the business

People/Culture

  • Promotes a culture of innovation, best practice, and continuous improvement
  • Leads the team to deliver the cultural shift to enable safety delivery and profitability and promotes a positive culture
  • Ensures succession plans are in place for key roles and people risks are understood and managed
  • An exemplary role model in demonstrating the required behaviours throughout the Joint Venture

About you

  • Relevant experience in construction, preferably in a highly regulated environment
  • Technical knowledge of construction techniques and best practices
  • Experience of coordinating design work and supervising subcontracts
  • Understanding of Engineering Principles
  • Experience of NEC Form of Contract and Subcontract
  • Holds relevant CSCS card

Qualifications/Experience

  • Degree level/HNC/HND qualification in a Civil Engineering and vocational training in Engineering or qualified by experience
  • 3 to 5 years work experience within a similar role with a main contractor in built environment
  • SMSTS / IOSH
  • Member of relevant Professional Institute
  • Training in Health, Safety and Environmental management

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.


We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:

Right to Work & Security Checks
Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you.

For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we'll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.


For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance).

To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.


Closing date


A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
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