Project Manager

COSTAIN GROUP; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure solutions company in the UK seeks a Project Management Capability Lead to oversee integrity, customer focus, and safety within the Digital function. You will manage project managers and enhance team capability through training and best practices while liaising with senior stakeholders. Candidates should have significant people management experience and strong communication skills. This position offers an opportunity to influence project methodologies and contribute to continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Senior Leadership Role.
• Ability to manage a busy workload.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of Digital services catalogue and PMO demand forecasts.
• Focus on recruitment and retention.
• Champion team compliance with toolset usage.

Skills

Logical and concise approach to work

Attention to detail

Excellent written skills

Familiarity with Agile methodologies

Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Project, Visio and Jira

Effective communication

Problem-solving skills

Understanding of change management

Organisational skills

People management experience

Matrix management experience

Experience in Senior Leadership Role

Tools

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Project

Visio

Jira

Job description

Overview

You will be working as Project Management Capability Lead in the Costain Digital function, and you will be responsible for the Integrity, Customer Focus, Safety & Wellbeing of the programme and project managers within the Digital function. This includes managing the capacity against demand (assignment, recruitment, and contract engagement), managing accreditation and promotional paths and being an escalation point. Within the role, you will liaise with project/programme managers, business analysts, delivery leads, business teams and senior business stakeholders all the way up to ExCo level. Your team will engage in a wide range of projects from Run the Business technical, through Transformational change to Client Engagements. To meet the demand, it will be important to build the teams capability both in accreditations, methodology use and business/ sector exposure.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining an in-depth understanding of the Digital services catalogue and PMO demand forecasts
• Recruitment and retention focus with Digital values and behaviours
• Maintain team common language in lifecycle in Agile, Hybrid and traditional methodologies adjusting with market maturity and best practice
• Developing team and individual's capability and identifying training requirements, ensuring KPI's for Portfolio > Programme > Project transparency are secured and maintained
• Developing and championing the team's acceptance of and compliance with toolsets use to ensure accuracy of activity data (from comments, RAG, resource capacity v demand to quality, cost and timescales) i.e. efficient data entry mechanisms, capture, surfacing to dashboards, helping create and embed best practice
• Assisting in the continuous improvement cycle across Costain Digital and wider business in terms of processes, tools, configuration and KPI's
• Ensure lessons learned are built into future change activities

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Logical and concise approach to work
• Ability to pay close attention to small details that could impact results
• Excellent written skills including detailed documentation of requirements and actions arising from colleague interactions
• Familiar with Agile, Hybrid and traditional project methodologies
• Demonstrable proficiency in the Microsoft Office, Project, Visio and Jira
• Effective communication and strong stakeholder management skills
• Problem solver who is comfortable working with technology specialists and customer-focused and pragmatic in their approach to delivery
• Passionate about improving performance in the sector through best practice, process improvements and continuous improvement practices
• Strong understanding of how people go through a change, the impact of change and the change process
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage a busy workload, balancing competing priorities and deadlines
• Able to work and learn quickly in a fast paced, fun and dynamic environment
• Care about doing a great job and exceeding expectations with the quality of what you do
• Previous experience of people management on complex/sensitive programmes and have successfully impacted peers/others in order to gain buy-in to enable change to happen
• Able to work in a matrix management environment
• Proven experience in a Senior Leadership Role

Qualifications

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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