Programme Manager in London

CMDP (a Joint Venture between Costain and MWHT) has been 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

• 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.
• Quality and customer focused whilst still able to operate commercially.
• 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.
• 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.

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.