Costain Group PLC

Manager

• Lead a team, be self-motivated, disciplined and commercially astute
• Identify, analyse and develop responses to commercial risks
• Implement and assure Company’s governance and contract specific requirements
• Excellent communication and customer facing skills are a must
• Provide guidance and support to the commercial team
• Manage and report on matters relating to insurances relevant to the project
• Establishing and maintaining productive and collaborative relationships with relevant internal and external stakeholders
• Ensure all health, safety and environmental risk situations are brought to the attention of Contract Leader / Project Manager

Commercial Manager

Operations

• **Operational Excellence and Quality Leadership**
• - Design and embed the Costain wide project operating system, integrating delivery processes, standards and delivery assurance mechanisms.
• - Lead continuous improvement initiatives that enhance productivity, consistency, and compliance.
• - Ensure quality systems meet regulatory, customer, and internal requirements while enabling agile delivery.
• - Diagnose systemic pain points and root causes impacting delivery efficiency and predictability to embed and promote a continuous improvement culture.
• **Capability Development and Cultural Change**
• - Build and lead a capability development programme focused on delivery disciplines, leadership behaviours and technical excellence.
• - Maintain an agile and MVP prototyping approach to test and refine new capabilities.
• - Coach senior leaders and delivery teams to strengthen decision-making, risk management, and execution flow.
• - Drive cultural alignment across contracts, reinforcing shared values and delivery discipline.
• **Governance and Performance Management**
• - Define the data structures, measures and performance indicators that underpin delivery excellence.
• - Establish governance frameworks that ensure consistent application of best practices and delivery standards.
• - Monitor delivery performance using KPIs, dashboards, and structured reviews to drive transparency and action.
• - Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to remove friction and improve end-to-end flow.
• - Codify activities, variables and measures to underpin new capabilities, coordinating with digital transformation and IT stakeholders.
• **Stakeholder Engagement and Influence**
• - Build trusted relationships with reference groups and coordinate working parties to maintain and improve capabilities.
• - Represent the division in corporate forums, audits and strategic initiatives.
• - Influence senior leaders to adopt best practices and champion operational excellence.
• **Quality Assurance and High-Assurance Delivery**
• - Own the Costain quality strategy, ensuring it underpins efficient and predictable delivery across all contracts.
• - Maintain and continuously improve the assurance framework, including policies, standards and stage-gate controls.
• - Support the review, reform and refinement of the Costain Way. Represent and lead the voice of delivery to ensure the Costain Way is a fit-for-purpose management system that supports best-in-class delivery.
• - Ensure quality planning, inspection, testing and verification activities are embedded early and consistently across the lifecycle.
• - Strengthen root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and learning loops to drive systemic improvement rather than local fixes.
• - Build capability in quality leadership, problem-solving, and right-first-time delivery across project teams.
• - Use data, metrics and leading indicators to identify emerging risk and drive proactive intervention.

Operational Excellence & Quality Director

Full-stack Engineer

• Lead a team of Civil and Structural Engineers providing technical guidance
• Responsible for the delivery of civil and structural work across multiple projects
• Provide bid, estimating and technical input to projects
• Ensure project discipline technical, compliance, quality, resources and budget performance
• Collaborate and produce a robust and safe design output
• Lead meetings and coordinate project work activities
• Ensure project reporting data (KPIs, carbon, etc) is maintained
• Proactively share knowledge and best practices within the team

Engineering Team Lead – Water

Field Engineer

• Provide technical construction engineering leadership
• Management oversight, coordination, and supervision of key project support functions
• Deliver close technical support to the construction management teams
• Resolution of site technical queries

Chief Field Engineer

Risk

• Facilitates and leads all aspects of the risk management process to the compliance of the risk management plan
• Authors the Contract Risk Management Plan, including annual updates
• Facilitates monthly risk reviews with risk owners to ensure quality of risk data is upheld
• Publishes monthly risk registers.
• Generates monthly reports for the key risk roles to undertake responsibilities
• Upholds and reviews risk product quality against associated risk standards.
• Prepare risk data and undertakes routine risk analysis

Project Risk Manager

Controller

• Managing the daily SHE paperwork to ensure structured filing, quality compliance and document control
• Manage booking of ‘on-boarding’ and the inductions process and staff health surveillance
• Support the induction process with management of records and updating of project registers
• Assist in managing the projects training matrix & Appointments matrix and completing monthly training record audits for staff and subcontractors
• Assist in the SHE reporting requirements such as Capture monthly reporting, Carbon reporting, SHE dashboards, etc.
• Assist in compiling presentation slides and data for applicable forums
• Working as part of the site SHE Team in supporting the Project Team as required
• Assist with meetings – planning / arrangements and minutes
• Owning the document control process for audit compliance
• Assist the wider project Administration team with ad-hoc tasks as required
• Maintaining key working relationships with all members of the project team including client staff, subcontractors / supplier

SHE Document Controller

Project Manager

• Management of Client interface meetings and reporting of progress/cost to the Thames Water PM and Commercial Team representative.
• Manage, supervise, train and mentor the site teams to enable them to optimise their work contribution.
• Management of H&S and Quality data with the site team for reporting purposes.
• Review contractual agreements and develop working methods, programme and forecast costs with the Client, Contracts Manager and Specialist / Suppliers identifying any inaccuracies or inconsistencies.
• Manage and undertake internal project reviews
• Develop programmes and forecast budgets, assess actual programme and productivity achieved and review weekly, taking action where appropriate, and reporting any changes to the Contracts Manager and Commercial department.
• Be fully conversant with specialists’ contract conditions.
• Positively manage 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 Contracts Manager, site team and the commercial team’s issues of non-conformances and contractual correspondence. Ensure that comprehensive records of resources employed on additional works are maintained.
• Ensure that a full and accurate daily site diary is kept, including any changes / variations, specialists’ attendance, and records of work-related discussions with the design team /site team.
• Ensure that inspection and test plans, risk assessments and method statements for the control of the works are reviewed, approved and adhered to.
• Keep abreast of developments in professional field
• Adherence to Costain policies and procedures
• Supervising responsibility for site teams; liaison with internal and external stakeholders
• Be familiar with, and demonstrate commitment to the requirements of the Health & Safety and Environmental Policies
• Management of design partner(s) in the delivery of project specifications and deliverables.
• Responsible for the overall delivery of contracts within your allocated portfolio.

Administration

• Collation of supporting documentation and production of security vetting packs, liaising with client security team
• Liaising with Recruitment team to advise on security vetting / screening information and candidate clearance eligibility
• Supporting the vetting and pass management coordinator, including the process of personnel security clearances
• Supporting the management of key internal and external stakeholder relationships
• Supporting producing reports that include progress of security clearances, passes and permits
• Support the coordination of the onboarding process for new starters (HR, IT, systems, client inductions)
• Coordination of travel, accommodation and meetings as required
• Provision of administrative support as required.

Vetting & Pass Management Administrator

• Management of Client interface meetings and reporting of progress/cost to the CMDP PM and Commercial Team representative.
• Manage, supervise, train and mentor the site teams to enable them to optimise their work contribution.
• Management of H&S and Quality data with the site team for reporting purposes.
• Review contractual agreements and develop working methods, programme and forecast costs with the Client, Contracts Manager and Specialist / Suppliers identifying any inaccuracies or inconsistencies.
• Manage and undertake internal project reviews.
• Develop programmes and forecast budgets, assess actual programme and productivity achieved and review weekly, taking action where appropriate, and reporting any changes to the Contracts Manager and Commercial department.
• Be fully conversant with specialists’ contract conditions.
• Positively manage 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 Contracts Manager, site team and the commercial team’s issues of non-conformances and contractual correspondence. Ensure that comprehensive records of resources employed on additional works are maintained.
• Ensure that a full and accurate daily site diary is kept, including any changes / variations, specialists’ attendance, and records of work-related discussions with the design team /site team.
• Ensure that inspection and test plans, risk assessments and method statements for the control of the works are reviewed, approved and adhered to.
• Keep abreast of developments in professional field.
• Adherence to Costain policies and procedures.
• Supervising responsibility for site teams; liaison with internal and external stakeholders.
• Be familiar with, and demonstrate commitment to the requirements of the Health & Safety and Environmental Policies.
• Management of design partner(s) in the delivery of project specifications and deliverables.
• Responsible for the overall delivery of contracts within your allocated portfolio.

• Plan and manage the development of commercially and technically efficient solutions that meet the customer’s needs and requirements
• Build strong internal and external relationships and help to manage stakeholder expectations
• Work alongside the Framework management team to ensure proposals are in line with company governance procedures, whilst providing support to the estimating team on technical requirements
• Develop the Tender Programme, monitoring progress and ensuring milestones are met
• Lead and manage reviews of customer enquiry documentation and complete scope gap reviews
• Co-ordinate the wider proposals and project team (including SMEs) to understand, identify and provide mitigations to challenges, risks and opportunities

Strategic Proposals Manager

• Support the planning, development, and execution of water infrastructure projects during the preconstruction phase
• Work closely with project managers, estimators, engineers, and external stakeholders
• Ensure all technical, financial, and logistical elements are thoroughly prepared before construction begins
• Gather project data, manage documentation, and coordinate design deliverables
• Support accurate cost development for water and wastewater facilities, pipelines, pump stations, and related civil infrastructure
• Support design and preconstruction teams through the UU gateway process in advance of on-site delivery

Preconstruction Manager

• Project Leader
• Technical Reviewer
• Construction and Commissioning Strategist
• Quality Assurance Advocate
• Coordinator and Facilitator
• Problem Solver
• Compliance
• Safety
• Training

Delivery Manager

Product Designer

• Identify design scope and deliverables
• Review and challenge of the design programme
• Management of design deliverables
• Management of design change
• Challenge design solution to ensure DfMA and low carbon solution which meet the Clients affordability challenges
• Hold and record regular design meetings relating to briefing, progress and coordination
• Hold and record buildability, carbon and DfMa workshops
• Coordination and management of design reviews, technical assurance reviews and CDM reviews
• Implementation and management of the project BIM strategy
• Support the framework nominated principal design partner
• Be conversant with current legislation, especially that which applies to health and safety, which is relevant to tasks being carried out
• Promote the business in a professional manner to both external and internal persons or organisations
• Maintain professional working relationships with the Design Team, Delivery Team, Commercial Team, and Employer Team and communicate well with them
• Liaise closely with other members of the Project Team to support procurement decision making for each package of work, which will include the Costain Project Manager, Commercial Manager, the Lead Design Consultant, MIECA lead and any respective supply chain partners
• Adhere to the Costain governance in relation to design management ad project delivery

Senior Design Manager

• Implement and manage document control processes and systems for accurate recording, updating, and tracking of all project documents, responsible for maintaining the accurate records of company documentation, and meeting formal requirements.
• Ensure all documentation, including drawings, reports, and records, meets quality standards and is compliant with project requirements and industry regulations.
• Liaise with project managers, engineers, and external parties to coordinate the distribution and flow of documents. Facilitate effective communication and document sharing across all project phases.
• Manage and maintain version control of project documents to ensure that the most current and accurate information is available to all stakeholders.
• Provide training and support to project team members on document control procedures and systems. Ensure that all personnel are aware of the document management policies.
• Generate and maintain reports on document status, progress, and compliance for project teams and management as required.
• Oversee the proper archiving of project documents and records in accordance with legal, regulatory, and company requirements.

Senior Document Controller

Engineer

• Lead the Cost Management function / team within the CDF programme of works.
• Develop and implement cost management plans and strategies for the CDF programme.
• Work closely with project managers to integrate cost management into the overall project plan.
• Provide training and support to the project team on cost management procedures.
• Facilitate communication between various project stakeholders regarding project costs and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure compliance with cost management standards and regulation.
• Monitor and report on budget progress.
• Oversee project cost management strategy.
• Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders to establish cost objectives.
• Prepare and deliver cost management reports for stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with relevant industry, regulatory, and company standards.
• Conduct training and workshops on cost management practices and procedures.

Commercial Manager

Operational Excellence & Quality Director

Engineering Team Lead – Water

Chief Field Engineer

Project Risk Manager

SHE Document Controller

Project Manager

Vetting & Pass Management Administrator

Project Manager

Strategic Proposals Manager

Preconstruction Manager

Delivery Manager

Senior Design Manager

Senior Document Controller

Senior Cost Engineer