Senior Project Manager

Costain Group Plc

The Role

Overview

Lead dock/berthing, MEP and communications projects, managing supply chain, budget and safety.

Key Responsibilities

  • risk management
  • change control
  • project planning
  • systems oversight
  • supply chain
  • performance kpis

Tasks

-Ensure that engineering and design outputs are translated effectively into project deliverables. -Ensure timely assurance delivery -Anticipates downstream impacts of decisions and integrates long-term considerations into short-term actions. -Leads a team and supply chain, ensuring appropriate resourcing, mobilisation, and performance. -Ensures delivery activities comply with nuclear safety, quality, and regulatory requirements. -Ensures delivery risks are identified for their project remit, and supply chain escalating critical risks and ensuring mitigation plans are in place. -Provides accurate and timely delivery updates to his/her supervisor -Effectively manages multiple workstreams, deadlines, and stakeholder demands in a high-pressure environment. -Ensures that all changes to project scope, schedule, or cost are controlled and aligned with programme governance. -Oversee key Dock and Berthing, MEP, communication, services and electrical systems plus submarines overside services activities, and supply chain ensuring alignment with safety, quality, and schedule -Accountable for the development of project plans ensuring alignment with the Project Execution Plan (PEP) and programme strategy. -Makes sound decisions under pressure, often with incomplete or evolving information. -Ensures effective coordination between design, construction, commissioning, supply chain and between projects -Actively listens to concerns, feedback, and ideas from team members and stakeholders. -Ensure effective coordination with the supply chain. -Responsible for project KPIs for schedule, cost, quality, and safety performance for areas managed. -Accountable for managing all Dock and Berthing, MEP, communication, services and electrical systems plus submarines overside services supply chain setting direction and deploying resource where needed. -Accountable for combined project performance for Dock and Berthing, MEP, communication and electrical systems plus submarines overside services. -Accountable for achieving key physical milestones, including enabling works, construction phases, and readiness for commissioning in relation to Dock and Berthing, MEP, communication, services and electrical systems plus submarines overside services. -Maintain and act on a live register of delivery risks and issues, for project and supply chain escalating where necessary. -Balances competing priorities such as safety, cost, schedule, and stakeholder expectations. -Builds trust through transparency, consistency, and integrity in all interactions. -Manage change control processes for their area. -Coordinate interfaces between supply chain and other teams -Help manage nuclear safety and quality standards throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Requirements

  • nec qualification
  • chartered
  • nuclear
  • change control
  • supply chain
  • quality assurance

What You Bring

-Ability to analyse multifaceted technical, logistical challenges and develop practical, risk-informed solutions. -Clearly conveys complex technical and programme information to diverse audiences -Works effectively across multidisciplinary teams, fostering a cooperative and inclusive environment. -Able to manage multiple supply chains -Proven experience in delivering large-scale, complex infrastructure projects ideally in nuclear structures (Cat A) -NEC qualification or equivalent -NOTC1-4, & 7 -Experience in delivery assurance, quality control, and performance reporting. -Understanding of configuration management and technical baselining. -Demonstrates awareness of team dynamics and individual needs, supporting team morale and wellbeing. -Deep understanding of construction methodologies, sequencing, and commissioning processes. -Skilled in managing design-to-delivery transitions and resolving technical interface issues. -Ideally an understanding of nuclear safety principles, construction safety, and quality assurance standards. -Chartered IMechE /Chartered Engineer CEng/Chartered MAPM or equivalent professional status or working to -Experience implementing structured change control processes in high-assurance environments.

The Company

About Costain Group Plc

-A leader in providing innovative solutions, specializing in complex, large-scale projects across the UK. -Their expertise spans infrastructure, energy, water, and other high-impact sectors. -Deep history in delivering projects for government, private, and public sector clients. -Recent notable projects include major works in energy, water, and transport sectors, including upgrades to critical infrastructure. -Known for integrating cutting-edge technology to enhance project delivery and safety outcomes. -Services extend from consultancy and design to construction and asset management. -Deeply involved in shaping the UK’s energy transition, particularly in sustainable power generation.

Sector Specialisms

Transport

Water

Energy

Defence

Road

Rail

Integrated Transport

Nuclear

Utilities

Senior Project Manager at Costain Group Plc in Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom