Project Manager
Company
Location
Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
5/16/2025
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Description
Job Description
Costain have won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have been appointed by United Utilities as one of 7 partners to the Enterprise, delivering £5.5bn of projects in the Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8) between 2025 – 2030, and AMP 9 (2030 – 2035). Our scope is to provide project management, design, construction and commissioning services on design and build schemes throughout the North West and Cumbria region covered by United Utilities. Projects vary in value, covering both infrastructure and non-infrastructure assets on water and wastewater sites with wider Enterprise partners
The Project Manager will support the delivery of planned work across the United Utilities (UU) region and develop key relationships within UU operational personnel, supply chain partners and wider Enterprise Partners. The role will require experience of both design and delivery of water projects with the successful individual either responsible for the delivery of one major project or a portfolio of smaller projects
Responsibilities
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.
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
Costain have won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have been appointed by United Utilities as one of 7 partners to the Enterprise, delivering £5.5bn of projects in the Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8) between 2025 – 2030, and AMP 9 (2030 – 2035). Our scope is to provide project management, design, construction and commissioning services on design and build schemes throughout the North West and Cumbria region covered by United Utilities. Projects vary in value, covering both infrastructure and non-infrastructure assets on water and wastewater sites with wider Enterprise partners
The Project Manager will support the delivery of planned work across the United Utilities (UU) region and develop key relationships within UU operational personnel, supply chain partners and wider Enterprise Partners. The role will require experience of both design and delivery of water projects with the successful individual either responsible for the delivery of one major project or a portfolio of smaller projects
Responsibilities
- Leadership, line management and development of site teams
- Provide whole life oversight and accountability for the successful completion of projects and services, through design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and handover aligned to the Framework strategy and targets
- Effective collaborative behaviours to ensure alignment of all delivery partners (designers, supply chain) and stakeholders (UU site operations teams, Enterprise leadership team) and successful delivery
- Create a positive and proactive culture to strive toward zero LTI and RIDDOR incidents
- Oversight of delivery strategy development ensuring a robust commercial focus and efficient delivery
- Consistent and reliable reporting of project performance to achieve Enterprise, Framework and Company targets
- Present project performance effectively to Framework and Enterprise leadership teams and stakeholders
- Ensure key project and programme risks are identified early, and mitigated where possible
- Effective engagement with the wider Enterprise and Framework team to support project delivery
- Previous experience of managing multidisciplinary projects including civils and or MEICA delivery (in the water sector would be beneficial, but it is not essential)
- Strong track record of delivery of project programmes
- Experience of the practical management of projects delivered using NEC forms of contract
- Ability to build trusted relationships with key client stakeholders, within your team and across the Enterprise, Framework & Costain group
- Effective collaborative behaviours, a good communicator with strong interpersonal skills
- Relevant CSCS card
- HNC/HND or degree in a relevant engineering discipline
- SMSTS qualification
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.
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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