Project Manager

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We are looking for all levels of Project Managers to work on our EDF Framework at Hartlepool Power Station, Durham.

As a Project Manager you will be accountable to the Portfolio Project Manager for successful delivery of all aspects of their assigned projects, providing support by leading, coaching and mentoring Project Managers as required to improve team performance and competence.

Costain supports EDF Energy Generation to maximise the lifespan of its eight UK nuclear power stations and prepare for defuelling and decommissioning. Costain’s role is to provide project controls and commercial managed services to portfolios and programmes of work across EDF’s UK nuclear power stations. As part of this work Costain will develop people capability in core project control skills and provide specialist support to EDF’s Central Technical Organisation to improve project performance and deliver cost efficiencies.

Key Responsibilities & Outcomes

• Identifying, implementing and complying with applicable safety, environmental and quality standards, company procedures and policies and other relevant legislative and regulatory requirements
• Managing the performance of other Project Managers and taking responsibility for the delivery of either a large complex project or a small portfolio of projects
• Acting as coach and mentor to other Project Managers and helping them in developing their project management knowledge and experience
• Applying the company project controls standards and developing, maintaining, reporting and trending an accurate project baseline
• Maintaining a project team containing all the resources required to successfully deliver the project
• Leading and coaching the project team members creating a positive team working environment
• Identifying and assessing risks and implementing effective risk mitigation strategies
• Managing assigned projects from concept to close out and maintaining effective integrated project execution strategies and plans
• Implementing and maintaining effective communication to the project team and all stakeholders including Station interactions to ensure full understanding and commitment to the deliverables
• Controlling scope and cost to the agreed project baseline
• Maintain regular involvement of and communications with the Project Sponsor
• Ensuring that any control arrangements identified, as part of the implementation of Licence Conditions
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• Good, detailed understanding of a wide range of project management competencies and be able to evaluate and adopt them within a complex project environment
• Able coach and mentor other project managers in the understanding and applying project management competencies
• 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 brown-field projects
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of relevant Health and Safety and Environment legislation including CDM and the actions required to achieve compliance along with a proven track record of working within highly regulated environments with high safety standards and culture
• Good understanding of the needs of quality and how quality is assured and controlled along with relevant experience of commercial, contractual and financial project drivers
• Excellent communication and organisational skills with the ability to develop relationships and maintain effective networks and be results-focussed tempered with a team-centred approach
• Experience of dealing with a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders
• A strong conflict manager with a firm and assertive approach but take the analytical approach with a “can do” problem solving ability
  
  

Qualifications

• Ideally degree educated in engineering or related subject, and a chartered engineer (or equivalent professional qualification) but not essential
• Ideally, but not essential APMP project management qualification or equivalent
  
  

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.

Your application

Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: careers@costain.com

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:

https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/

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

Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.

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