Project Manager

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Core Responsibilities

The primary role of the Project Manager is to ensure that projects are delivered on schedule, within the budget and according to the client’s/contract requirements.

The ideal candidate will understand and be able to demonstrate knowledge of every aspect of the project lifecycle, be experienced in initiating projects, planning, delegating, managing and risk mitigating.

Key aspects include

• Monitoring and reporting project progress
• Communicating with team members
• Managing the project resource, budget and deliverables
• Updating stakeholders
• Identification and management of risk in compliance with CITS processes
• Quality and project plan creation and management.
  
  

Key Skills

• Takes responsibility for the definition, documentation and safe execution of small to medium-scale projects, engaging with stakeholders and actively participating in all phases of the project.
• Identifies, assesses and manages risks and issues which could affect the success of the project.
• Effectively estimates costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful delivery of the project(s) to agreed terms of reference.
• Ensures that realistic project and quality plans are prepared and maintained and tracks all activities against the plan, providing regular and accurate reports to stakeholders, as appropriate
• Monitors costs, timescales and resources used, and takes action where these deviate from agreed tolerances.
• Ensures that delivered systems are implemented within these criteria.
• Manages the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within planned cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off.
• Gains agreement for revisions to the project(s) from project sponsors and other stakeholders (e.g. design authority, project board, change authority) as appropriate.
• Provides effective leadership to the project team ensuring that team members are motivated and developing their skills and experience.
• Takes appropriate action where performance deviates from agreed tolerances.
• Actively represents the project team, ensuring that effective relationships are built and maintained with the business.
• Ensures that own projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are captured, actioned and reported to the appropriate organisational entities for dissemination towards organisational learning and improvement.
• Produces appropriate documentation to support these processes.
• Evaluates and makes recommendations/decisions on technical options as appropriate.
  
  

Desirable But Not Essential

• Knowledge and understanding of technology product processes to deliver new and existing technology products on a project
• A good commercial understanding to be able to deliver the requirements of a contract and manage issues, variations, and risks accordingly.
  
  

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 at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published 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:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign