Programme Manager in London

Join to apply for the Programme Manager role at Costain Group PLCCMDP (a Joint Venture between Costain and MWHT) appointed by Southern Water Services (SWS) as a strategic delivery partner for the AMP8 period. This is an exciting time to join the team as CMDP will play a pivotal role alongside other partners in realising SWS's ambitious transformation goals that feature in its business plan for 2025-30, and beyond.

SWS provides CMDP with a unique opportunity to be a world‐class example of collaborative delivery, leaving a positive legacy in the communities and the environment of the SWS operating regions. This is an outstanding opportunity for an individual with the drive and passion to shape the future direction and success of SWS, and further strengthen the CMDP relationship with SWS and the other delivery partners.

Responsibilities

• Reporting directly to the Programme Director (Wastewater), you will be accountable for managing all site-based activities ensuring projects are delivered on time, to the required standards and within budget.
• Co‐ordinate site works and manage subcontractors resulting in successful project completion.
• Manage the CMDP wastewater team in all aspects of delivery.
• Provide strategic and professional guidance to Project Managers, Construction Managers, and wider members of the team.
• Actively champion wellbeing, safety and environment performance, and compliance throughout your team to create a safety culture to ensure Zero LTI and RIDDOR Incidents.
• Develop and maintain a high‐performance culture across the CMDP team, delivering efficiencies and continuous improvement.
• Provide whole life oversight and accountability for the successful delivery of projects, through design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and handover.
• Deliver commercial and financial performance in line with budget expectations.
• Promote and actively demonstrate collaborative behaviours within the CMDP JV team and across the SWS business along with CMDP corporate representatives.
• Communicate extensively across all stakeholders within SWS, and internally within CMDP to leverage the maximum potential of CMDP in the AMP8 programme of works.
• Ensure compliance with SWS and CMDP governance requirements.
• Establish and grow excellent relationships with SWS and other Delivery Partners.
• Provide accurate and timely project performance reports, ensuring projects are on track and contract requirements are met.
• Work collaboratively with the project teams and sub‐contractors, building strong and trusted working relationships.
• Develop team capabilities and help shape the future wastewater delivery strategy.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Team player with the ability to lead and motivate.
• Demonstrate a real passion for construction and project delivery.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to build strong, trusting relationships and able to influence at all levels.
• Experienced in managing project managers and teams.
• Leadership skills will be the key to success in this role.
• Quality and customer focused whilst still able to operate commercially.

Essential

• Ability to positively engage and build strong stakeholder and partner relationships to achieve mutual success.
• Significant amount of contract delivery experience managing a regional framework of multiple projects of a complex or critical nature.
• An engaging leader of people with extensive line management and development of people.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of CDM and Construction & Engineering Management.
• Excellent knowledge of contractual forms used for collaborative project delivery.
• Solutions focused with solid commercial, financial and analytical skills.
• Experience with Digital Strategy in construction.

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification in a Civil Engineering allied subject or HND in Civil Engineering and vocational training in Engineering.
• Chartered (or working towards) with an engineering, commercial or construction institution.
• Experienced operational, delivery focused leader.
• Previous experience in water/wastewater treatment plants.

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 discloses 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.