M&E Project Director

About the Opportunity

We seek a Project Director, with M&E experience in highly complex, highly regulated environments, ideally with experience in Defence / Nuclear. The responsibility of the M&E Project Director is to ensure that activities under their control are planned, monitored and clearly communicated to the manager responsible to those with accountability for delivery of work scope.

The M&E Project Director is to lead, innovate and motivate the integrated team including supply chain to ensure that the programme is delivered to time, quality, and cost.

The position is responsible for a dedicated integrated team of Mechanical and Electrical, Package Managers, Agents, and engineers including Supply Chain partners.

Responsibilities

• Ensures projects are completed to quality, schedule, and budget; anticipating and developing contingency plans to mitigate risks and issues
• Responsible for overall performance including profit and loss across specified customer accounts
• Manages and controls risk and change to meet Costain and client objectives
• Manages stakeholders and project to deliver direct (project) and indirect (e.g., social value) benefits
• Develops effective project delivery organisations and secures sufficiently qualified and experienced personnel to meet the project needs
• Selects, integrates, and assures the supply chain required to meet the project needs
• Assures efficient project execution by leading teams to remove complexity and maximise productivity
• Demonstrates high profile and visible safety leadership. Responsible for ensuring all project requirements are achieved for health, safety, environmental impact mitigation, and security
• Ensures compliance with and continuous improvement of quality management systems

About You

Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to interface and interact with management and client representatives at all levels
• Experienced in developing strong client and wider stakeholder relationships
• Possesses a recognised degree ‘or’ equivalent experience ‘or’ qualification in a relevant branch of engineering and be a member of an internationally recognised professional Institution
• Has robust and practical experience in integrating multi-disciplinary and external organisations into a high-performance enterprise across the project lifecycle
• Strong Project Management expertise in highly regulated industries with complementary leadership and behavioural management
• Delivery focused with proven experience in achieving project goals whilst maintaining high standards in HSEQ at all times
• Innovative, adaptive, harnessing data and technology to drive project success
• Conversant with estimating approaches and competent in cost/schedule budget management processes
• Conversant with HR practices/processes
• Proven track record of building teams with different backgrounds and values diverse thinking
• Excellent communication skills

Essential

Qualifications

Security Clearance would be desirable, but the ability to gain SC is essential.

Benefits

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading-edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation, and defence markets.

Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We offer our clients leading-edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery.

Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

About Company

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at the application phase.

We do share individual feedback following an interview.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that discloses they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

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