Costain Group PLC

Project Manager

• Strategic management of crossings programme across IC2 schemes.
• Management and co-ordination of design, contracts and specialist subcontractors to deliver the programme.
• Manage on-site operations for Tunnelling, HDD, pipe jacking, and open-cut works.
• Oversee Tunnelling, HDD & Pipe-jacking activities, ensuring alignment and quality.
• Monitor progress against programme and implement corrective actions.
• Develop crossing strategies and select appropriate methods.
• Prepare and review technical drawings, risk assessments, and method statements.
• Coordinate with design teams to ensure feasibility and compliance with standards.
• Ensure all quality standards are met in the development and construction of the crossing design.
• Lead the implementation of a production management approach to delivery.

Crossing Project Manager

Controller

• Process, catalogue, and store documents in physical or digital formats, ensuring they are accessible and correctly filed.
• Manage the lifecycle of documents, including creation, revisions, approval, distribution, and archiving, in alignment with project and company standards.
• Ensure all documents adhere to company policies, project requirements, and industry regulations.
• Regularly review and audit documentation processes and storage for compliance and efficiency.
• Act as a liaison between project teams, departments, and external partners to ensure smooth document flow and accessibility.
• Maintain the integrity and confidentiality of project documents, implementing measures to prevent unauthorized access or alterations.
• Prepare and maintain reports on document status, distribution, and compliance for project management review.
• Work closely with project teams, including engineers, project managers, and other stakeholders, to ensure efficient document control support.

Document Controller

Director

• Leading the MSP contract for Costain
• Ability to lead a complex integrated framework
• Establish clear lines of communication throughout the team
• Champion Safety, Health and Environment
• Present proposals for improvements
• Overall responsibility for service delivery
• Understand commercial drivers and manage cost management
• Ensure compliance with the Contract Management System
• Promote a culture of innovation and best practice
• Ensure succession plans are in place for key roles

Programme Director

Strategy

• Own and lead on all Costain’s Costain Engineering Limited’s Business Development and Work Winning activities, liaising with Costain’s sectors, group functions and clients
• Collaborate strategically with Costain’s Sectors and CEL Management teams in the pursuit of relevant engineering opportunities, developing best in class value propositions and winning bids to secure a strong future pipeline of work aligned with Costain’s growth ambitions.
• As a member of the CEL SLT, provide cross- business leadership to deliver CEL’s business plan and growth ambitions, with effective communication to all key stakeholders on challenges and progress.
• Improve visibility and management of the engineering pipeline across all six sectors, assisting CEL Management teams to better identify future workload and map resource demand against our pipeline. Conduct regular relevant market research and analysis to identify any new opportunities for CEL and sectors.
• Identify and implement process and system improvements for CEL work winning efforts to enable more streamlined integration with Costain sector work winning efforts, whilst also enabling CEL to manage bids independently as required.
• Drive improvements in tender submission quality and implement automation into CEL work winning processes to find efficiencies, including but not limited to engineering estimating processes.
• Develop benchmarking data for engineering services tenders to track development and drive change as required against industry standards, in addition to KPIs and performance metrics for business, winning activities across CEL
• Develop and maintain external client partnerships and alliances to complement in-house capabilities and position Costain for growth and success in target markets

Strategic Development Lead

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Provide financial support and insight to discipline leads and functional stakeholders, helping them understand financial performance and cost drivers within the Engineering Consulting business
• Own and maintain the Engineering staff cost model, ensuring accurate headcount, award and cost data to support distribution rate calculations and reconciliation to timesheet system
• Develop and maintain discipline charge-out and distribution rates, supporting rate modelling, updates and audit requirements
• Partner with Discipline Leads to review monthly financial performance, providing clear analysis of variances, trends and risks
• Assist in the preparation of the Monthly Business Review (MBR) pack, including overhead analysis and commentary
• Support the budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes, including headcount planning and overhead cost modelling
• Oversee the shared services and the posting of standard month-end journals
• Prepare and post ad-hoc journals where required, ensuring appropriate controls and documentation
• Support half-year and year-end audit processes, responding to queries and providing required analysis
• Maintain and monitor the PO Tracer to support effective GRNI management and cost control
• Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, controls and reporting efficiency within the FP&A function
• Support wider FP&A team initiatives and ad-hoc analysis as required

Finance Analyst

Systems Engineer

• Elicit, understand, analyse, and document the requirements for Package 3 of the HS2 Rail Systems Contracts.
• Leading the change and configuration management, to manage the technical change process across the Package 3 of the HS2 Rail Systems Contracts and maintain configuration management.
• Developing the Requirements Management processes, Configuration / Change Management processes and procedures in line with both the Costain and Client (HS2) requirements.
• Ensuring the application of the Requirements Management Plan and processes to elicit, analyse, record and verify / validate the requirements of the Package 3 Rail Systems contract for HS2.
• Ensuring the application of the Configuration Management Plan and processes on the Package 3 Rail Systems contract for HS2.
• Working with design teams subcontractors and subject matter experts to allocate requirements to Asset level requirements specification and to determine the relevant appropriate verification and validation activities.
• Production and submissions of Verification Validation Matrices (VVM’s) and Configuration Status Reports (CSR’s) to support the technical design assurance process.
• Reporting on the performance of the Requirements Management, Verification & Validation process as well as Configuration Management.
• Maintain the Change Management process, including maintaining change and configuration registers.
• Driving innovation in the requirements management and configuration management approach.
• Prepare and deliver training and briefings to promote awareness of the requirements, configuration / change management process and activities within the project team.
• Fostering collaborative working within the team and the project team through data base management, team integration and workflows.
• Collaborative working within the HS2 Subject Matter Experts as required, and credible in building relationships.

Systems Engineer – Requirements, Configuration

• Monthly administration, reconciliation, and reallocation of staff costs, cost reallocation journals, purchase card and telephone costs as well as head office recharges and the timely resolution of other staff cost queries.
• Processing monthly cost reports for the Finance Manager for SMT reviews.
• Discuss and generate a positive approach to change including implementing improved ways of undertaking tasks.
• Investigate and respond to queries from the Finance Manager.
• Carry out compliance reviews of financial controls, in line with company guidelines, ensuring that all applicable requirements can always be met.
• Continuously adapt and improve management reports.
• Other ad hoc duties to support the wider company divisions.
• Assist with year-end process and analysis as required.

Assistant Finance Manager

Quantity Surveyor

• Efficient and effective management and issuing of accurate, timely and compliant notices and correspondence.
• Ensuring contractual and commercial risks and opportunities are identified to the Contract Leader.
• Preparation and agreement of applications for payment or the assessment & preparation of payment certificates.
• Maintaining registers of variations, delay, extension times and claims.
• Compliant and consistent implementation of the Company's commercial policies and procedures.
• Assist with preparation of monthly progress valuations and claims for work completed.
• Interfacing with Customer’s commercial and project teams.
• Produce pre-Contract tender negotiations & reports where necessary.
• Produce monthly cost reports, forecasts, and Contract Leader Reports.
• Review value management and advise on Risk management.
• Prepare supply chain enquiries, negotiate, administer, and finalise / close out supply chain contracts.
• Plan and implement change management and cost control.
• Ongoing liaison with site team, supply chain and Customers’ representatives.
• Provide contractual advice to the project / site team as and when appropriate.
• Maintaining awareness of the different construction contracts in current use.
• Understanding the implications of health, safety, and environmental regulations.
• Ensure all health, safety and environmental risk situations are brought to the attention of Contract Leader / Project Manager.

Senior Quantity Surveyor

• Support the delivery of planned work across the Northumbrian Water region.
• Develop key relationships within Northumbrian Water operational personnel, supply chain partners and wider Enterprise Partners.
• Responsible for the delivery of one major project or a portfolio of smaller projects.

Senior Project Manager

• This role will be focused on HV Transmission and Distribution.
• The individual will have overall accountability for successful project delivery including initiation, planning, design, delivery, monitoring, commissioning and handover/close out.
• An individual who provides leadership, project management and inspires a multi-disciplinary team.
• They will have the ability to determine the most appropriate means of satisfying the customer, project requirements, key objectives and constraints; Safety, time, cost, quality, scope, risk and benefits.

Senior Project Manager – HV Transmission

Full-stack Engineer

• Provide whole life oversight and accountability for the successful completion of maintenance projects and services, through design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and handover
• Ensure supply chain remain compliant with the framework management plan
• Drive a safety culture to ensure Zero LTI and RIDDOR Incidents
• Ensure a commercial focus with a high level of challenge on project scope and choosing efficient delivery strategies
• Ensure all stakeholders within MSP and United Utilities are engaged and supportive of the projects and services and their potential impacts
• Ensure consistent and reliable reporting of project/services performance into the MSP system
• Ensure key project and programme risks are identified early, and mitigated where possible

Senior Project Engineer

• Document Processing and Management: Process, catalogue, and store documents in physical or digital formats, ensuring they are accessible and correctly filed.
• Quality Control and Compliance: Ensure that all documents adhere to company policies, project requirements, and industry regulations.
• Coordination and Communication: Act as a liaison between project teams, departments, and external partners to ensure smooth document flow and accessibility.
• Data Integrity and Security: Maintain the integrity and confidentiality of project documents, implementing measures to prevent unauthorized access or alterations.
• Support and Training: Provide support to project teams in using the document management system and adhering to document control procedures.
• Reporting and Archiving: Prepare and maintain reports on document status, distribution, and compliance for project management review.

Supply Chain

• Lead project subcontract procurement and be an advisor for project stakeholders
• Ensure sector P&SC strategy is deployed and implemented
• Collaborate with pre-construction estimating team and post-award commercial team
• Deliver predictable best-in-class outcomes for project teams
• Develop strong relationships with key internal stakeholders
• Manage under-performance with successful corrective action planning

Procurement and Supply Chain Manager

Engineer

• Produce deliverables in developing and communicating construction challenges, methodologies, sequences and programmes
• Utilize Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Primavera P6 for project management
• Communicate advice to clients, designers, and stakeholders to influence construction decision-making
• Support team growth across multiple sectors including Rail, Water, Roads, Nuclear and Defence

Constructability Engineers

• Ensure all activities are appropriately and managed to ensure safe operations .
• Supervise, train and mentor the site team to enable them to optimize their work contribution.
• Prepare presentations to provide reporting and updates to the Client and the Senior Leadership Team
• Attend progress meetings with the Client and Contractors to manage the works and progress, including chair meeting and minute taking.
• Review contractual agreements and develop working methods, RAMS, and programme
• Develop programmes and forecast budgets, assess actual programme and productivity achieved and review weekly, taking action where appropriate, and reporting any changes to the Project Manager and Commercial department.
• Provide input into the programme to ensure the appropriate specialists provide the level of resources with the necessary skills so as not to impede the construction programme.
• Communicate with the site team and the commercial team’s issues of non-conformance and contractual correspondence. Ensure that comprehensive records of resources employed on additional works are maintained.
• Ensure that inspection and test plans, risk assessments and method statements for the control of the works are reviewed, approved and adhered to.
• Supervising responsibility for site teams; liaison with internal and external stakeholders
• Manage pre-construction activities, ensuring company and client governances is followed at all times
• Work closely with the delivery team to overcome constructability issues at the earliest opportunity

Crossing Project Manager

Document Controller

Programme Director

Strategic Development Lead

Finance Analyst

Systems Engineer – Requirements, Configuration

Assistant Finance Manager

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager – HV Transmission

Senior Project Engineer

Document Controller

Procurement and Supply Chain Manager

Constructability Engineers

Assistant Project Manager