Project Engineering Manager (Water Sector)

Costain Group PLC; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm located in Manchester is looking for a Project Engineering Manager to oversee multi-disciplinary design projects in the water sector. The successful candidate will manage project delivery, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, safety, and quality standards. Key qualifications include significant experience in engineering management roles, strong interpersonal skills, and a relevant engineering degree. This hybrid role requires some travel to client sites and offers flexibility based on individual circumstances.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in wastewater/clean water projects.
• Thorough knowledge of the project delivery process from work winning to handover.
• Strong focus on safety, quality, and environmental standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering design.
• Coordinate engineering and design interfaces with partners.
• Manage contractual communications and progress reporting.

Skills

Project management

Client relations

Interpersonal skills

Engineering leadership

Agile methodologies

Education

Honours Degree in engineering

Job description

We have an opportunity for a Project Engineering Manager to join our vibrant Engineering Design team based in Manchester, supporting secured frameworks and confirmed demand with Southern Water, Northumbrian Water, Thames Water, Severn Trent Water and United Utilities. The Project Engineering Discipline provides multi-discipline engineering team leadership and coordination across the engineering project lifecycle for Costain's Energy, Water, Transport, Nuclear and Defence sectors. We are growing our engineering team to serve growing demand for UK projects in the Water sector. We are keen to hear from candidates with significant experience of acting in a Project Engineering Manger role in wastewater/clean water on infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects and throughout the entire project lifecycle : from needs and solution identification, optioneering, outline design and detailed design in a design and build environment. As a client facing (both internal and external), Project Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for managing the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering design on complex projects through the various of stages of the project life cycle to meet the project schedule, budget, safety, environmental and quality requirements, including defining & agreeing the Requirements with clients. This hybrid role is nominally based at the Costain Manchester Office with an expectation of office-based working for a minimum of two days per week - our dynamic working policy does allow all employees to discuss and agree flexibility to where, when and how they work based on individual circumstances and subject to role, client, business and team requirements. Short-term/notice travel to company, supplier or client offices or sites for business purposes may be required.

Responsibilities

• , sustainable, digitally enabled, cost-effective, compliant, technically sound and meet commercial delivery targets through: CDM PD/D compliance
• Ensuring that Engineering resource requirements are identified and effectively utilised to allow execution of projects in accordance with the project requirements and targeting for maximum productivity and efficiency.
• Ensuring all Engineers fully understand the detailed scope, basis of design, budget and programme requirements of the project.
• Co-ordination of Engineering and Design interfaces between Costain and other project partners / supply chain partners.
• Management of contractual communications, supporting progress meetings, risk reduction meetings, cost reports, coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams and running / closing out contract actions
• Regularly reporting to senior operational management on the performance of the engineering delivery for the project
• Providing a commercial focus with a high level of challenge on project scope and protecting against uncontrolled scope creep
• Ensuring effective deployment and use of company engineering delivery processes on projects including engineering design strategy; master deliverable plan, project schedule, work/cost breakdown structure; process safety management and engineering governance process.
• Ensuring that key project and programme risks are identified early, and mitigated where possible, with issues and blockers escalated immediately.
• Ensuring all services comply fully with Client & Costain governance processes, standards and obtaining necessary approvals.
• Developing productive relationships by communicating with colleagues and subordinates, developing trust and support and building teams.
  Significant experience in coordinating multi-discipline teams through the various stages of the project life cycle on major contracts in the Water Sector.

Qualifications

• Essential Honours Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering related subject.
• Thorough knowledge of the major project delivery process from work winning to project handover.
• Knowledge and understanding of UK technical and regulatory standards and global best practice.
• Strong process safety, quality and environmental leadership focus.
• Significant knowledge and understanding of Project Controls, including Schedule, Cost, Risk and Change Management.
• Collaborative, innovative and agile.
• Experienced customer facing capability with an ability to develop and influence relationships
• Strong interpersonal skills and an effective communicator (written & verbal)
• Able to work regularly from the Costain Manchester office (40% office based)
• Mobility to travel to Costain/client offices, project sites and suppliers.

Desirable

• Chartered Engineer and Membership of a professional engineering institution
• Association for Project Management qualification

About Costain

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.

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 application phase.