Overview
Project Manager – Leiston
Job Description
As a Project Manager you will be accountable to the Portfolio Project Manager for successful delivery of all aspects of their assigned projects. The Project Manager sets the project execution strategy in agreement with the client PPM and uses a cross-functional project team to deliver the project safely in line with company policies and procedures, achieving established goals and objectives within the agreed baseline.
Please note potential candidates for this role must be able to obtain and retain CTC (Counter Terrorist Check) level security clearance to be considered for this position. (Minimum 3 years residence in UK)
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Responsibilities
- Good, detailed understanding of a wide range of project management competencies and be able to evaluate and adopt them within a complex project environment, including experience of executing most of the project management competencies by managing a number of complex projects
- The Work Pack/Project Manager is responsible for delivering the projects and achieving the goals and objectives.
- Collaborate with the Technical Leads or Responsible Engineers amongst other stakeholders, to ensure the definition of and common understanding of the requirements and objectives of the work area. Responsible for ensuring that this is turned into an agreed scope of work and that appropriate resources are identified to enable delivery of agreed scope in line with agreed Time, Cost and Quality and priority requirements.
- Knowledge of engineering, design, procurement, safety case, construction and installation/commissioning management and commercial contracting
- Experience of brown-field projects
- Champions Sustainability Safety, Health and Environment by putting personal safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do and helping the environment and communities to thrive
- Having integrity by always doing the right thing in the right way
- Must be customer focussed by striving for excellence through understanding, anticipating and meeting their needs
Qualifications
Essential
- APMP Project Management Qualification or equivalent
- Good, detailed understanding of a wide range of project management competencies and be able to evaluate and adopt them within a complex project environment
- Experience of executing most of the project management competencies by managing a number of complex projects
- Knowledge of engineering, design, procurement, safety case, construction and installation/commissioning management and commercial contracting
- Experience of dealing with a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders
Desirable
- Experience of brown-field projects
- Ideally degree educated in engineering or related subject, and a chartered engineer (or equivalent professional qualification) but not essential
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.
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About the Team
Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
Costain provides a project controls and commercial managed service to portfolios and programmes of work across EDF Energy’s eight UK nuclear power stations. As part of this work Costain will develop people capability in core project control skills and provide specialist support to EDFs Central Technical Organisation to improve project performance and deliver cost efficiencies. We are supporting EDF in 2 main areas:
1) to successfully deliver projects that maximise the lifespan of their generating stations
2) to successfully deliver a Defueling & Decommissioning programme, a first of a kind
endeavour for the UK.
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