Why this role stands out
As a Senior Project Manager in Whitehaven, you'll lead a portfolio of projects from inception to completion, overseeing scope, budget, and schedule within a highly regulated environment. This hybrid role offers significant career growth and development opportunities, perfect for a commercially astute professional with strong contract management and team leadership skills. You'll thrive by collaborating with clients and the supply chain, ensuring successful project delivery and contributing to Costain's reputable work in infrastructure.
Quick overview
Job description
Senior Project Manager - Whitehaven
Job DescriptionThis 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.
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Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Ensuring the project is delivered safely, within Budget, on programme and to the required Quality
- Managing a dedicated professional team integrated with the Clients team
- Ownership of the packages and disciplines
- Delivering to budget and production targets, programme, and specification
- Owning the relationship and maintain 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 utiliites
- Chartered Project Professional or demonstrating working towards achievement
- Commercially astute with practical experience of budgets, forecasts, contract management, procurement and supply chain performance
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
Qualifications
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.
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
We do share individual feedback following an interview .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose 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.
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