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Job Description
Costain is working closely with Severn Trent Water on their Capital Delivery Framework, as part of its capital programme for AMP8. As part of the Design and Build Framework lot, Costain brings together its design, construction, and consultancy expertise to undertake renewal and refurbishment projects and will assist Severn Trent in its target to make continuous improvements to its safety performance, whilst ensuring continuity of supply and consequently lowering costs for its customers.
Job Description
Costain is working closely with Severn Trent Water on their Capital Delivery Framework, as part of its capital programme for AMP8. As part of the Design and Build Framework lot, Costain brings together its design, construction, and consultancy expertise to undertake renewal and refurbishment projects and will assist Severn Trent in its target to make continuous improvements to its safety performance, whilst ensuring continuity of supply and consequently lowering costs for its customers.
This is an outstanding opportunity for an individual with the drive and passion to shape the future direction and success of the framework and further strengthen the Costain relationship with Severn Trent Water.
Responsibilities
* Work as part of the SLT leading the Costain team on the Severn Trent Water framework
* Promote and actively demonstrate collaborative behaviours within the Costain team and across the framework
* Develop and maintain a high-performance culture across the Costain team, delivering efficiencies and continuous improvement
* Establish and grow excellent relationships with Severn Trent 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 Severn Trent, and internally within Costain to leverage the maximum potential of Costain on the framework
* Ensure compliance with Severn Trent and Costain governance requirements
* Deliver commercial and financial performance in line with budget expectations
Qualifications
* 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
About Us
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. 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.
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Director
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Full-time
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