Technical Senior Project Manager

The Project Management Discipline provides leadership in FEED and EPC project delivery across multi-discipline projects for the Costain Energy Sector. The Technical Project Manager will be responsible for leading the delivery of multiple project types including FEED, Detailed Design (DD), Engineering Design and Procurement (E&P) and Engineering design, Procurement and Construction (EPC). This role will also interact with multiple contractors, requiring a great degree of self and time management.

The Project Manager provides leadership and coordination to either a large complex project or a portfolio of projects. The successful candidate will have the ability to lead a complex multi-discipline team and communicate effectively with all internal and external stakeholders. The candidate will require high levels of drive and motivation, and the ability to prioritise their workload efficiently, which will be crucial to succeeding in this role.

As a Technical Project Manager you will ensure that projects are delivered safely within the given timescales and budgets, and to the required quality, whilst identifying, managing, and mitigating risk. You will be responsible for the engineering management and coordination of multi-discipline engineering teams to produce safe-by-design, sustainable, digitally enabled, cost-effective, compliant and technically sound outcomes.

The role is based at the Costain Aberdeen Office with an expectation of office-based working for up to three days per week – our informal dynamic working policy allows all employees to discuss and agree flexibility to where, when and how they work based on individual preferences 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.

• Responsibility for Project Delivery across the full Project Lifecycle through Engineering, Procurement, construction and commissioning.
• Full control of project budget and schedule including cashflow and change management.
• Identify and manage specifically those areas that represent significant risk to the Project.
• Co-ordination of multi-disciplinary teams required to deliver complex EPC Energy Projects.
• Coordination of multi-disciplinary engineering teams to deliver designs which are safe-by-design, sustainable, digitally enabled, cost-effective, compliant and technically sound.
• Co-ordination of the engineering and design interfaces between Costain and other project partners / supply chain partners.
• Ensuring all disciplines fully understand the detailed scope, basis of design, budget and programme requirements of the project.
• Providing a commercial focus with a high level of challenge on project scope and protecting against uncontrolled scope creep.
• 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.
• Lead by example, displaying the Company's values and behaviours, and commitment to the highest standards of safe and ethical behaviour, to ensure safe and reliable operations and client satisfaction.
• Contractual communications, progress meetings, risk reduction meetings, cost reports and running / closing out contract actions.
• Regularly reporting to senior operational management on the performance of the delivery for the project.
• Ensuring that all 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.
• Management of all interfaces between Costain and other project partners / supply chain partners.
• Working closely with the procurement and sub-contract supply chain to ensure that all contract and delivery documentation is in place for the projects to progress into the construction phase and to ensure mechanical completion and handover is delivered to the right quality and to schedule.
• Ability to Work in a highly regulated environment.
• Other duties as deemed necessary to facilitate successful Project delivery.

• Minimum of 10 years experience in leading delivery of complex FEED and EPC projects in a highly regulated environment within the Energy/ Oil and Gas Sector.
• Extensive experience in coordinating multi-discipline teams through the various stages of the project life cycle on major contracts in the Energy or similar process industry sectors.
• 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.
• Knowledge of CDM regulations.
• Extensive 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.
• Proven team working and people management skills.
• Good stakeholder and Client management skills.
• Client and customer focused and able to demonstrate evidence of successful collaboration.
• High levels of self-motivation and drive.

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.