Project Director

Costain; Southampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure solutions company is seeking a Project Director for their Southern Water Framework in Southampton. This role involves leading complex projects, ensuring successful delivery and stakeholder engagement, and fostering a high-performance culture within the team. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership skills, extensive experience in the water sector, and relevant qualifications.

Qualifications

• Experienced in complex projects in a collaborative environment.
• Excellent knowledge of CDM and Engineering Management.
• Strong experience in contract delivery and project management.

Responsibilities

• Promote collaborative behaviors within the CMDP team.
• Develop high-performance cultures and efficiencies.
• Ensure successful project delivery across design to handover.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Engagement

Problem Solving

Commercial Skills

Education

HNC/HND or degree in a relevant construction/engineering discipline

NEC PM accreditation

APMP qualification

Job description

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Job Description

At CMDP+ we believe that people matter. We know that to build successful, creative teams we need a diverse workforce that can deliver new innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential.

CMDP+ is looking to strengthen their Senior Leadership team with a Project Director for our Southern Water Framework. MWH Treatment and Costain Group are part of the CMDP+ joint venture that will deliver a range of construction schemes to maintain and improve Southern Water's water supply and wastewater treatment works within the South and Southeast regions.

The Joint Venture has been set up specifically to execute the 5-year (2025 - 2030) AMP8 capital delivery framework. We will be delivering a programme of works up to £1bn over the 5-year period consisting of both heavy civil engineering and mechanical and electrical activities.

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Responsibilities

• Promote and actively demonstrate collaborative behaviours within the CMDP team and across the Southern Water framework
• Develop and maintain a high-performance culture across the CMDP team, delivering efficiencies and continuous improvement
• Establish and grow excellent relationships with Southern Water 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 Southern Water, and internally within Costain to leverage the maximum potential of Costain on the framework
• Ensure compliance with Southern Water 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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About the Team

CMDP is a joint venture between Costain and MWHT and delivers a range of schemes to maintain and improve Southern Water's water supply and wastewater treatment works in the eastern half of its region (Kent & Sussex).