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Project Engineering Manager (Water)

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Your applicationOpen nowProject Engineering Manager (Water)Costain Group · London, United Kingdom, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

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13.8% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Costain Group postings stay open a median of 20 days.

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  5. 37.8%30 days
  6. 59.0%60 days
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Job Description

With the current and anticipated workload across our water sector projects increasing, additional project management resource is needed within the team for effective project delivery, manage client expectations, and protect the quality of our service.

Due to this continued success and growth, we are looking for a Project Engineering Manager who is experienced in combining technical engineering with project delivery and client management to join the Water Division of CEL who deliver engineering designs for a number of Water Authorities across England through its AMP8 programme with a pipeline of work planned across the upcoming AMP9 investment plan.

As a Project Engineering Manager you will be responsible for managing the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering design on complex projects through the various of stages of the project life cycle to meet the project schedule, budget, safety, environmental and quality requirements, including defining & agreeing the Requirements with clients.

Leading experienced engineers, project managers and technical specialists, you will deliver excellence to the full project lifecycle from feasibility and optioneering through design, assurance and construction support. You will demonstrate the commercial, technical and leadership skills required of a Project Engineering Manager, by delivering best value outcomes to our clients.

This hybrid role will be based out of our London office, typical attendance 2 days per week with a blended approach to remote working to promote well-being.

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Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensuring that Engineering resource requirements are identified and effectively utilised to allow execution of projects in accordance with the project requirements and targeting for maximum productivity and efficiency.
  • Ensuring all Engineers fully understand the detailed scope, basis of design, budget and programme requirements of the project.
  • Co-ordination of Engineering and Design interfaces between Costain and other project partners / supply chain partners.
  • Management of contractual communications, supporting progress meetings, risk reduction meetings, cost reports, coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams and running / closing out contract actions
  • Regularly reporting to senior operational management on the performance of the engineering delivery for the project
  • Providing a commercial focus with a high level of challenge on project scope and protecting against uncontrolled scope creep
  • Ensuring effective deployment and use of company engineering delivery processes on projects including engineering design strategy; master deliverable plan, project schedule, work/cost breakdown structure; process safety management and engineering governance process.
  • Ensuring that key project and programme risks are identified early, and mitigated where possible, with issues and blockers escalated immediately.
  • Ensuring all services comply fully with Client & Costain governance processes, standards and obtaining necessary approvals.
  • Developing productive relationships by communicating with colleagues and subordinates, developing trust and support and building teams.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

  • Significant UK experience in coordinating multi-discipline teams through the various stages of the project life cycle on major contracts in the Water Sector.
  • Thorough knowledge of the major project delivery process from work winning to project handover.
  • Knowledge and understanding of UK technical and regulatory standards and global best practice.
  • Strong process safety, quality and environmental leadership focus.
  • Significant knowledge and understanding of Project Controls, including Schedule, Cost, Risk and Change Management.
  • Collaborative, innovative and agile
  • Experienced customer facing capability with an ability to develop and influence relationships
  • Proven interpersonal skills and an effective communicator (written & verbal)
  • Able to work regularly from the Costain London office (40% office based)
  • Mobility to travel to Costain/client offices, project sites and suppliers.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Honours Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering related subject.

Desirable

  • Chartered Engineer and Membership of a professional engineering institution
  • Association for Project Management qualification

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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