Project Manager / Delivery Lead
Company
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
3/23/2025
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Description
Job Description
Based between our office in Manchester with regular travel required to the Client's site, we have flexible work options. Talented individuals from a range of engineering, delivery and operational backgrounds will be required to form a high performing team.
Responsibilities
The Delivery Lead will be responsible for delivering multiple projects, reporting to the Deputy Programme Director. This role will also interact with multiple stakeholders including client and contractors, requiring a great degree of self and time management.
The successful candidate will have the ability to work as part of a team, communicate effectively, have high levels of drive and motivation, and prioritise their workload efficiently, which will be crucial to succeeding in this role.
As a Delivery Lead you will ensure that projects are delivered within the given timescales and budgets, and to the required quality, whilst identifying, managing, and mitigating risk.
Less experienced individuals with the right behaviours may be considered in a development role.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibility for project delivery across the full project life cycle for allocated projects in a particular area of the programme
Take an active lead in the establishment and management of a high-performance culture with successful outcomes across SHE, quality, commercial and delivery metrics.
Work with the functional teams to ensure the application of management controls.
Oversee the performance of construction activity, in conjunction with the Construction Director, to achieve physical works outcomes.
Support the Deputy Programme Director in the development of, monitoring and reporting on progress.
Attend at stakeholder meetings, supporting forward planning in readiness and execution of project delivery.
Lead progress meetings with both client and sub-contractors to monitor and discuss progress.
Attend walk downs and working closely with the sub-contractors ensure enabling documentation is in place for projects to progress into the construction phase.
Identify and manage specifically those areas that represent significant risk to the project.
Other duties as deemed necessary to facilitate successful delivery.
Qualifications
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
Based between our office in Manchester with regular travel required to the Client's site, we have flexible work options. Talented individuals from a range of engineering, delivery and operational backgrounds will be required to form a high performing team.
Responsibilities
The Delivery Lead will be responsible for delivering multiple projects, reporting to the Deputy Programme Director. This role will also interact with multiple stakeholders including client and contractors, requiring a great degree of self and time management.
The successful candidate will have the ability to work as part of a team, communicate effectively, have high levels of drive and motivation, and prioritise their workload efficiently, which will be crucial to succeeding in this role.
As a Delivery Lead you will ensure that projects are delivered within the given timescales and budgets, and to the required quality, whilst identifying, managing, and mitigating risk.
Less experienced individuals with the right behaviours may be considered in a development role.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibility for project delivery across the full project life cycle for allocated projects in a particular area of the programme
Take an active lead in the establishment and management of a high-performance culture with successful outcomes across SHE, quality, commercial and delivery metrics.
Work with the functional teams to ensure the application of management controls.
Oversee the performance of construction activity, in conjunction with the Construction Director, to achieve physical works outcomes.
Support the Deputy Programme Director in the development of, monitoring and reporting on progress.
Attend at stakeholder meetings, supporting forward planning in readiness and execution of project delivery.
Lead progress meetings with both client and sub-contractors to monitor and discuss progress.
Attend walk downs and working closely with the sub-contractors ensure enabling documentation is in place for projects to progress into the construction phase.
Identify and manage specifically those areas that represent significant risk to the project.
Other duties as deemed necessary to facilitate successful delivery.
Qualifications
- Project and programme delivery experience
- Proven team working and people management skills.
- Good stakeholder and client management skills
- Collaborative delivery.
- High levels of self-motivation and drive
- Experience working in a highly regulated environment
- APM PMQ
- Professional qualification
- Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) Card
- MSP Programme Management
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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