M&E Project Director

Costain; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure solutions company is seeking a Project Director with M&E experience in complex environments, especially in Defence/Nuclear. The role involves managing multidisciplinary teams to ensure project delivery on time and within budget while maintaining quality and safety standards. Ideal candidates will have a strong project management background and excellent communication skills. Security Clearance is desirable.

Qualifications

• Ability to interface with management and clients at all levels.
• Robust experience integrating multi-disciplinary organizations.
• Delivery-focused with a track record in HSEQ standards.

Responsibilities

• Ensure projects are completed to quality, schedule, and budget.
• Manage and control risk and change for meeting objectives.
• Lead teams to ensure project execution and safety compliance.

Skills

Project Management expertise in regulated industries

Excellent communication skills

Ability to build diverse teams

Innovative and adaptive thinking

Strong stakeholder relationship management

Education

Recognised degree or equivalent in engineering

Job description

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Job Description

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 innovative 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

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

Qualifications

Essential

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

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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