Technical Project Manager

Costain; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure solutions provider in Manchester is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager. You will lead multi-discipline teams to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required standards in a highly regulated environment. The ideal candidate will have at least 10 years of experience in complex FEED and EPC projects, strong leadership skills, and a degree in engineering. This position offers a dynamic working environment with a focus on safety and compliance.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years experience in leading delivery of complex FEED and EPC projects.
• Thorough knowledge of major project delivery processes.
• Extensive knowledge of project controls including schedule, cost, risk and change management.

Responsibilities

• Lead project delivery across the full lifecycle.
• Manage project budget and schedule.
• Ensure compliance with governance processes.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication skills

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Self-motivation

Education

Degree in Engineering or equivalent

Job description

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Job Description

The Technical Project Manager will be responsible for leading the delivery of multiple project types including FEED, Detailed Design (DD), Engineering Design and Procurement (E&P) and Engineering design, Procurement and Construction (EPC). This role will also interact with multiple contractors, requiring a great degree of self and time management. The Project Manager provides leadership and coordination to either a large complex project or a portfolio of projects

The successful candidate will have the ability to lead a complex multi discipline team and communicate effectively with all internal and external stakeholders. The candidate will require high levels of drive and motivation, and the ability to prioritise their workload efficiently, which will be crucial to succeeding in this role.

As a Project Manager you will ensure that projects are delivered safely within the given timescales and budgets, and to the required quality, whilst identifying, managing, and mitigating risk.

As a Technical Project Manager you wil be responsible for the engineering management and coordination of multi-discipline engineering teams to produce safe-by-design, sustainable, digitally enabled, cost-effective, compliant and technically sound outcomes.

The role is based at the Costain Manchester Office with an expectation of office-based working for up to three days per week - our informal dynamic working policy allows all employees to discuss and agree flexibility to where, when and how they work based on individual preferences 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

• Responsibility for Project Delivery across the full Project Lifecycle through Engineering, Procurement, construction and commissioning
• Full control of project budget and schedule including cashflow and change management.
• Identify and manage specifically those areas that represent significant risk to the Project.
• Co-ordination of multi-disciplinary teams required to delivery complex EPC Energy Projects
• Coordination of multi-disciplinary engineering teams to deliver designs which are safe-by-design, sustainable, digitally enabled, cost-effective, compliant and technically sound.
• Co-ordination of the engineering and design interfaces between Costain and other project partners / supply chain partners
• Ensuring all disciplines fully understand the detailed scope, basis of design, budget and programme requirements of the project
• Providing a commercial focus with a high level of challenge on project scope and protecting against uncontrolled scope creep
• 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
• Lead by example, displaying the Company's values and behaviours, and commitment to the highest standards of safe and ethical behaviour, to ensure safe and reliable operations and client satisfaction.
• Contractual communications, progress meetings, risk reduction meetings, cost reports and running / closing out contract actions
• Regularly reporting to senior operational management on the performance of the delivery for the project
• Ensuring that all 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.
• Management of all interfaces between Costain and other project partners / supply chain partners
• Working closely with the procurement and sub-contract supply chain to ensure that all contract and delivery documentation is in place for the projects to progress into the construction phase and to ensure mechanical completion and handover is delivered to the right quality and to schedule.
• Ability to Work in a highly regulated environment
• Other duties as deemed necessary to facilitate successful Project delivery.
• Responsibility for Project Delivery across the full Project Lifecycle through Engineering, Procurement, construction and commissioning

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Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years experience in leading delivery of complex FEED and EPC projects in a highly regulated environment within the Energy/ Oil and Gas Sector.
• Extensive experience in coordinating multi-discipline teams the various stages of the project life cycle on major contracts in the Energy or similar process industry sectors
• 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.
• Knowledge of CDM regulations.
• Extensive 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
• Proven team working and people management skills.
• Good stakeholder and Client management skills
• Client and customer focused and able to demonstrate evidence of successful collaboration.
• High levels of self-motivation and drive
• Degree qualified or equivalent (NVQ/QBE) with an engineering background.

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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