Costain Group PLC

General

• Act as the primary point of contact for all engineering project controls matters
• Liaise with CEL delivery teams, CEL management, and sector/client teams to identify project controls requirements and priorities
• Build and maintain a digital suite of engineering project control systems from the ground up
• Monitor and report engineering delivery performance and Earned Value Management metrics, including progress measurement, cost reporting, and schedule control
• Establish monitoring and reporting requirements with CEL delivery teams while keeping processes streamlined and adaptable
• Create clear reporting outputs and dashboards for project-level and wider CEL management performance reporting
• Manage the quality and integrity of data used for project controls and reporting
• Continuously improve and develop CEL project controls systems and capture lessons learned
• Manage interfaces and integration with wider sector or client project reporting

Project Controls Lead

• Lead a Project Control Team of Planning to ensure consistency, coherence and adherence to standards
• Oversee production and control of baselined, fully logic-linked, cost- and resource-loaded plans with appropriate milestones
• Use work breakdown structures and related techniques across project work
• Support estimating to ensure a control estimate is available for cost monitoring
• Facilitate and maintain project change control and risk management processes
• Analyse trends and provide feedback on risks and opportunities
• Support managers in producing monthly reports through intelligent information and analysis
• Develop Project Control processes and tools for the EDF Energy Generation portfolio
• Identify Project Controls shortfalls and implement remedial action plans
• Conduct forward resource planning
• Participate actively in recruitment, including interviews
• Continually improve Project Controls output and value delivered
• Work embedded in the client team alongside Costain colleagues, the client and suppliers

Project Controls Lead – Planning

• Support implementation of Digital Engineering for the M60 Simister Island project
• Work through Construction and Handover stages
• Support ongoing Digital Engineering activities within the broader highways sector
• Represent the business culture and ethos on Digital Engineering and capture and share best practice
• Investigate new ways of working and software to improve and streamline Digital Engineering processes
• Support development of 2D and 3D CAD models and drawings for permanent and temporary works
• Develop 3D models for setting out and machine control
• Develop 3D and 4D models for assessment and visualisation of construction sequencing proposals
• Provide a technical link between design consultants, project teams, and suppliers
• Support management and use of the Project Information Model during construction
• Embed digital processes across project disciplines and support project processes such as public consultations
• Advise others on digital systems
• Support handover of project Asset Information in accordance with the National Highways Asset Data Management Manual
• Support development and handover of as-built drawings

Digital BIM Coordinator

Director

• Ensure projects are completed to quality, schedule, and budget
• Anticipate risks and develop contingency plans to mitigate risks and issues
• Manage overall performance, including profit and loss, across specified customer accounts
• Manage and control risk and change to meet Costain and client objectives
• Manage stakeholders and projects to deliver direct and indirect benefits
• Develop effective project delivery organisations and secure qualified and experienced personnel
• Select, integrate, and assure the required supply chain
• Lead teams to remove complexity and maximise productivity
• Provide visible safety leadership
• Ensure health, safety, environmental impact mitigation, security, and other project requirements are achieved
• Ensure compliance with and continuous improvement of quality management systems
• Lead complex, multi-disciplinary infrastructure integration and close supply chain integration

Project Director

Project Manager

• Lead delivery of planned and reactive project work across the United Utilities region
• Develop key relationships with United Utilities operational personnel and supply chain partners
• Lead, manage, and develop multidisciplinary teams
• Provide whole-life oversight and accountability for maintenance projects and services through design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and handover
• Ensure supply chain compliance with the framework management plan
• Create a safety culture targeting zero LTI and RIDDOR incidents
• Maintain commercial focus, challenge project scope, and select efficient delivery strategies
• Engage MSP and United Utilities stakeholders at strategic and operational levels
• Provide consistent and reliable project and service performance reporting into MSP systems
• Identify and mitigate project and programme risks

• Support delivery of planned work across the Northumbrian Water region
• Develop key relationships with Northumbrian Water operational personnel, supply chain partners, and wider Enterprise Partners
• Manage one major project or a portfolio of smaller projects
• Lead, line-manage, and develop site teams
• Provide whole-life oversight and accountability through design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and handover
• Ensure supply chain compliance with the framework management plan
• Create a safety culture targeting zero LTI and RIDDOR incidents
• Maintain commercial focus, challenge project scope, and select efficient delivery strategies
• Engage Enterprise stakeholders at strategic and operational levels
• Ensure consistent and reliable project and service performance reporting
• Identify and mitigate key project and programme risks

• Deliver projects and programmes across the North Norfolk region safely, on time, to budget and in line with quality, environmental and customer requirements
• Oversee elements of a multimillion-pound strategic clean water pipeline and infrastructure project
• Manage projects throughout their full lifecycle, from enabling and construction through handover, formal sign-off and post-handover warranty issues
• Create and lead a high-performing multidisciplinary project team
• Translate programme-level strategy into project outcomes
• Utilise team resources effectively and manage performance issues
• Build collaborative relationships with the project team, Anglian Water stakeholders and supply chain partners
• Comply with governance requirements and support the Senior Project Manager at governance boards
• Maintain accurate project cost forecasts with the Commercial team and mitigate or report cost variances
• Manage scheme-level risk and change, escalating as required
• Ensure projects are planned and updated accurately in P6 and SAP
• Lead peer and constructability reviews
• Drive continuous improvement and consistent health and safety standards toward a zero-accident culture

• Create and lead a high-performing multidisciplinary project team
• Translate programme-level strategy into project outcomes
• Manage team resources, performance and output
• Develop collaborative relationships with Anglian Water stakeholders and supply chain partners
• Manage the full project lifecycle from enabling and construction through handover, sign-off and post-handover warranty issues
• Comply with governance requirements and support Senior PM governance boards
• Maintain accurate cost forecasts and mitigate or report cost variances
• Manage scheme-level risk and change, escalating as required
• Ensure projects are accurately planned and updated in P6 and SAP
• Lead peer and constructability reviews
• Drive continuous improvement and consistent health and safety standards
• Maintain a zero-accident culture

Product Designer

• Identify design scope and deliverables
• Support development and agreement of design scopes, programmes and budgets
• Manage allocated design partners and project teams against agreed deliverables, programmes and budgets
• Manage the design contract and coordinate reporting against Framework requirements
• Ensure design compliance with NWL, industry and Costain standards, securing necessary derogations
• Challenge design solutions for safety, efficiency and buildability, including DfMA and low-carbon solutions
• Coordinate and manage design risk, buildability, carbon and DfMA workshops
• Coordinate and manage design reviews, technical assurance reviews and CDM reviews
• Ensure design implementation aligns with the project BIM strategy
• Support the framework-nominated principal design partner and interfaces with wider project and Enterprise teams
• Apply current legislation, particularly relevant health and safety requirements
• Promote the business professionally to external and internal stakeholders
• Maintain working relationships with design, delivery, commercial and employer teams
• Support procurement decision-making for work packages with Framework team members and supply-chain partners
• Adhere to Costain governance for design management and project delivery

Senior Design Manager

Agent

• Work across the water storage points project lifecycle and lead on design and delivery
• Engage with site operational teams and supply chain partners across one or multiple sites
• Develop construction strategy and programmes
• Set up and deliver work safely, to quality, time and budget
• Line-manage and develop site teams
• Ensure production and implementation of project plans, RAMs, ITPs and waste management
• Maintain comprehensive site records including diaries and allocation sheets
• Ensure supply chain compliance with the framework management plan
• Create a safety culture striving toward Zero LTI and RIDDOR Incidents
• Maintain commercial focus on project scope and efficient delivery strategies
• Ensure sites have suitably competent and skilled resources
• Engage delivery teams at operational level
• Report project SHE metrics, progress, cost, and change consistently and reliably
• Identify and mitigate key project risks early

Site Agent

Planner

• Prepare robust contract programmes linking design, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning and handover throughout the project lifecycle
• Display and analyse the project critical path and advise the project team and client on results and corrective actions
• Produce and maintain project baselines and execute the change control process
• Update schedules to reflect progress, change events, risks and opportunities
• Produce fully logic-linked programmes aligned with NEC contract requirements
• Support the site delivery team with short-term lookahead programmes
• Produce programmes and documentation in accordance with company practices and procedures
• Manage several programmes and support Planning Engineers/Junior Planning Engineers, including supervision and work checking
• Support project controls implementation, including earned value analysis, reporting dashboards and performance metrics
• Monitor site delivery programmes and update contractual submissions to Northumbrian Water across live sites in County Durham

Controller

• Process, catalogue, store, scan and upload physical and digital documents
• Manage document lifecycles, including creation, revision, approval, distribution and archiving
• Maintain structured folder systems, naming conventions, metadata and document attributes
• Track document-control status and ensure project timescales are met
• Register, track and distribute documentation submissions for approval, including comment sheets and RFIs
• Transfer key deliverables between iCosnet/ProjectWise and TW Business Collaborator according to the Information Management Plan and document-control process
• Update registers, trackers, drawing numbers and hyperlinks
• Support framework trackers and reports, including MIDP, Gate, Docusign, SCO and Thames Water reports
• Liaise with project teams, departments, external partners, the Contract Team, Core Team, supply chain and client
• Coordinate distribution to ensure current document versions are accessible
• Highlight deadlines and outstanding actions
• Promote correct filing of relevant emails and provide reports
• Ensure compliance with company policies, project requirements and industry regulations
• Review and audit documentation processes and storage; assist the Quality Assurance Manager with quality assurance and continuous improvement
• Maintain confidentiality, integrity, version control and accurate revision histories
• Record disposed or archived paperwork and complete ad-hoc tasks as requested

Trainee Document Controller

Advisor

• Support and influence Contract Leadership Team, clients, and other stakeholders on compliance with the SHE Management System and Contract SHE Performance
• Support and, where required, deliver training to enable implementation of the SHE Management System
• Coach and support Contract Operational and Supply Chain Contractors in delivering Contract SHE requirements
• Participate in ongoing assessment of Supply Chain Contractors
• Support delivery of annual Contract and Group SHE Objectives
• Engage with the Contract SHE Assurance programme to ensure compliance with company and statutory requirements
• Support investigation of unplanned events and close-out of assurance findings, ensuring lessons are shared
• Support timely reporting, analysis, and use of SHE data
• Support development and implementation of data-based improvement plans
• Provide and support SHE solutions and enable Contract/Operational Teams to implement the SHE Management System
• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships while providing an independent and objective view of SHE Performance

Senior SHE Advisor – Nights

Engineering Manager

• Lead detailed design delivery throughout the project lifecycle, from design through handover
• Ensure designs are delivered on time, to a high right-first-time standard, suitable for construction and asset-owner adoption
• Provide technical leadership and manage site engineering activities safely, to required quality, on time and within budget
• Align designer and subcontractor-designed elements
• Further develop the groundwater strategy to enable consents and construction
• Lead technical teams responsible for design compliance and change, temporary works, digital modelling and BIM, materials management, quality assurance and handover
• Work with site delivery, supervision, SHE, stakeholder and commercial teams
• Engage with the client team, Technical Advisor, NEC Supervisor and National Highways stakeholders
• Ensure delivery complies with design information, planning constraints, technical specifications, environmental constraints and Costain Way guidance
• Lead safety, including ensuring temporary works are correctly designed, checked and implemented
• Promote a right-first-time quality approach
• Manage technical design management, engineering and quality assurance staff, including TWC, lifting AP and electrical AP
• Collaborate with project leadership to ensure safe, efficient design, delivery and handover
• Provide planning and procurement support as required

Manager

• Ensure construction is adequately considered in detailed design
• Provide construction leadership and manage all aspects of construction, including investigations, surveys and mobilisation
• Ensure all works are carried out in accordance with The Costain Way
• Put safety above all else and lead by example
• Promote a Safe, Efficient, Right First-Time approach to quality and avoid rework
• Manage a team of engineering staff and collaborate with the project leadership team and other disciplines
• Support the Project Director in all construction matters, including handover
• Provide planning and procurement support
• Implement product control and manage related subcontract activities
• In Stage 1, lead site investigation and the Early Contractor Involvement team to ensure the design is safe and efficient to construct
• In Stage 2, ensure permanent works and corresponding documentation meet standards required to hand over assets to Norfolk County Council and National Highways

Project Controls Lead

Project Controls Lead – Planning

Digital BIM Coordinator

Project Director

Project Manager

Project Manager

Project Manager

Project Manager

Senior Design Manager

Site Agent

Planner

Trainee Document Controller

Senior SHE Advisor – Nights

Engineering Manager

Senior Construction Manager