At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead exciting infrastructure projects from start to finish, ensuring safety and quality.
- Company: Join Costain, a leader in smart infrastructure solutions across the UK.
- Benefits: Permanent contract with competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic team environment with a focus on innovation and sustainability.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on essential projects that improve lives and communities.
- Qualifications: Degree or equivalent experience in project management or related fields required.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
Location: Seascale, Cumbria, United Kingdom; Workington, Cumbria, United Kingdom; Whitehaven, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Contract Type: Permanent
Driving Required: Yes
Security Clearance Required: Yes
Lead the safe, predictable and commercially effective delivery of infrastructure projects, work packages or services through the full project lifecycle. The Project Manager integrates multidisciplinary functions, the customer and the supply chain to achieve agreed outcomes for scope, safety, quality, programme, cost, risk, sustainability and handover.
Qualifications
- Degree, HNC/HND, apprenticeship or equivalent professional experience in project management, engineering, construction or a related discipline.
- Recognised project management qualification or professional development pathway, for example APM PMQ, PRINCE2, or equivalent experience, or progression toward chartered status.
- Relevant site-management/safety qualification, for example SMSTS, IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent.
- Appropriate CSCS/competence card and sector-specific competence, security clearance or customer authorisations is desirable.
- Membership of a relevant professional body is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Agree scope, acceptance criteria and delivery milestones with the client.
- Manage the schedule, budget, forecasts, risks and changes, and report progress to the Senior Project Manager.
- Establish and maintain a controlled baseline for scope, programme, cost, risk, change, design, procurement, quality, readiness and handover.
- Coordinate engineering, procurement, site teams and suppliers.
- Visit work locations regularly to check progress, resolve delivery issues and manage interfaces with live operations.
- Plan work around site access and operational constraints.
- Work with the relevant specialists to meet health, safety, quality and environmental requirements.
- Plan commissioning and handback from the outset.
- Coordinate readiness reviews and testing, track outstanding actions, and secure acceptance with the agreed test records, handover documentation and any required operator training.
- Lead the assigned team, which may include project engineers and apprentices. Set priorities, delegate appropriately, and provide coaching and development support.
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential
- Experience in leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating engineering, design, commercial, planning, procurement, SHE, quality and construction/delivery functions in a safety critical or highly regulated environment.
- Commercial awareness and the ability to work effectively with quantity surveying/commercial teams on cost forecasting, variance, procurement and change.
- Experience of NEC3/NEC4 or other collaborative engineering and construction contracts.
Desirable
- Experience of major programmes, frameworks, alliances, regulated utilities or highly regulated/operational sites.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control or process-related works.
- Experience of digital delivery, modern methods of construction, production thinking, value engineering or lean improvement.
About the company
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.
Project Manager in Carlisle employer: Costain
Costain is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that prioritises employee growth and development within the vibrant environment of London Heathrow. As a leader in smart infrastructure solutions, we provide our team with unique opportunities to engage in transformative projects that contribute to a sustainable future, while fostering strong relationships across diverse stakeholders. Our commitment to safety, inclusivity, and professional advancement makes us an attractive choice for those seeking meaningful and rewarding careers.
