Project Director
Costain Group PLC
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Southampton • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Promote and actively demonstrate collaborative behaviours within the CMDP team and across the Southern Water framework
- Develop and maintain a high-performance culture across the CMDP team, delivering efficiencies and continuous improvement
- Establish and grow excellent relationships with Southern Water client teams
- Actively champion wellbeing, safety and environment performance, and compliance throughout your team to create a safety culture to ensure Zero LTI and RIDDOR Incidents
- Provide whole life oversight and accountability for the successful delivery of projects, through design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and handover
- Communicate extensively across all stakeholders within Southern Water, and internally within Costain to leverage the maximum potential of Costain on the framework
- Ensure compliance with Southern Water and Costain governance requirements
- Deliver commercial and financial performance in line with budget expectations
Requirements
- Experienced in the leadership of complex projects and/or programmes in a collaborative delivery environment (preferably in the water sector)
- Ability to positively engage and build strong stakeholder and partner relationships to achieve mutual success
- Significant amount of contract delivery experience where you have successfully managed a framework of multiple projects of a complex or critical nature
- An 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 focussed with ability lead teams in problem-solving
- Solid commercial, financial and analytical skills
- Flexibility and adaptability to be able to respond rapidly to unexpected events, having the ability to shape our response appropriately
- HNC/HND or degree in a relevant construction/engineering discipline
- NEC PM accreditation (preferred)
- Association of Project Management APMP (preferred)
- Senior Leaders Safety training
Benefits
- A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
project deliverycontract deliveryCDMConstruction ManagementEngineering Managementfinancial performanceanalytical skillsproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementcollaborative project delivery
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationrelationship buildingflexibilityadaptabilitycommunicationteam managementengagementcontinuous improvementsafety culture
Certifications
HNCHNDdegree in construction/engineeringNEC PM accreditationAPMPSenior Leaders Safety training