Project Engineering Manager (Water Sector) in Manchester

We have an opportunity for a Project Engineering Manager to join our vibrant Engineering Design team based in Manchester, supporting secured frameworks and confirmed demand with Southern Water, Northumbrian Water, Thames Water, Severn Trent Water and United Utilities. The Project Engineering Discipline provides multi-discipline engineering team leadership and coordination across the engineering project lifecycle for Costain's Energy, Water, Transport, Nuclear and Defence sectors.

We are growing our engineering team to serve growing demand for UK projects in the Water sector. We are keen to hear from candidates with significant experience of acting in a Project Engineering Manager role in wastewater/clean water on infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects and throughout the entire project lifecycle: from needs and solution identification, optioneering, outline design and detailed design in a design and build environment.

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

This hybrid role is nominally based at the Costain Manchester Office with an expectation of office-based working for a minimum of two days per week – our dynamic working policy does allow all employees to discuss and agree flexibility to where, when and how they work based on individual circumstances and subject to role, client, business and team requirements. Short-term/notice travel to company, supplier or client offices or sites for business purposes may be required.

Responsibilities

• To manage the delivery of multi-discipline engineering design on projects through the various stages of the project lifecycle ensuring they are safe‐by‐design, sustainable, digitally enabled, cost‐effective, compliant, technically sound and meet commercial delivery targets.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Significant 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.
• Strong interpersonal skills and an effective communicator (written & verbal).
• Able to work regularly from the Costain Manchester office (40% office based).
• Mobility to travel to Costain/client offices, project sites and suppliers.

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.

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.

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