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Water Delivery Manager – Engineering and Design
Costain Group PLC. Head delivery of multidisciplinary engineering services across numerous project sites and frameworks within a regional area .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in managing multidisciplinary engineering teams and delivering complex projects within the UK Water sector, ensuring compliance with technical and regulatory standards while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
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Project ManagementMultidisciplinary Engineering Team LeadershipUK Water Sector ExperienceTechnical Quality AssuranceChange Management
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Hard Skills
Engineering DesignResource ForecastingBudget ManagementTechnical ComplianceDesign Workflow ManagementDigital IntegrationRegulatory AssuranceComplex Problem ResolutionClient Opportunity IdentificationScope Variation Minimization
Soft Skills
CollaborationCommunicationLeadershipAccountabilityContinuous Improvement
Tools & Technologies
Technical Management SystemsInformation Management SystemsQuality Control ProcessesPlan of Work SystemsDesign Assurance Processes
Certifications & Qualifications
IEng RegistrationCEng RegistrationAPM Project Fundamentals Qualification
Industry Keywords
Engineering ServicesWater SectorProject LifecycleHealth and Safety ComplianceTender Activities
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Head delivery of multidisciplinary engineering services across numerous project sites and frameworks within a regional area
- Collaborate with the Engineering Services Water Sector Lead and Water Sector teams to understand the engineering services pipeline and maximise internal delivery opportunities
- Forecast future resource requirements across multiple disciplines and inform recruitment
- Align team skillsets and deployed resources with current and future project demands and complexity
- Lead experienced engineers and manage teams of Project Engineering Managers across Water projects and contracts
- Define and ensure adherence to scope, service requirements, budgets and programmes
- Monitor progress against budget and programme and report to senior management, sectors and clients
- Ensure technically compliant, quality-controlled designs and completion of technical and regulatory assurance activities
- Develop, manage and maintain corporate technical management systems, including digital integration
- Resolve complex technical and delivery issues
- Forecast service demand, identify client opportunities and coordinate engineering contributions to value propositions and bids
- Identify and monitor engineering budgets and resource requirements for tender activities and ensure internal governance compliance
- Capture and communicate technical risks and opportunities to stakeholders
- Oversee design change and minimise unnecessary scope variation
- Develop a design delivery culture focused on ownership and accountability
- Embed lessons learned and continuous improvement across engineering services
- Maintain compliance with Health and Safety policy, legislation, and client requirements
Requirements
What you’ll need- A degree in an engineering or environmental science discipline with a background in project management
- Background in managing delivery of engineering services on complex projects across the programme lifecycle within the UK Water sector
- Experience managing complex engineering scopes to budget and programme, including effective change management
- Experience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams, workload, resource demand and skillsets
- Significant UK engineering design experience within the relevant engineering discipline
- Authority in multiple design and construction systems and process models, such as plan of work
- Experience reviewing technical quality and compliance of design deliverables
- Understanding of technical concepts across civil, mechanical and process engineering design disciplines
- Experience setting up or running design, assurance and reporting processes on large projects
- Understanding of Water sector clients, challenges, opportunities and procurement/contract strategies
- Experience setting up, leading or operating project engineering delivery aspects such as design workflows, information management systems and quality controls (desirable)
- Engineering Council professional registration toward IEng or CEng, in association with a relevant professional institution (developmental)
- APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ) or equivalent project management training (developmental)
Benefits
Comp & perks- Hybrid working with a blended approach to remote working
- Well-being promoted through blended working
- Professional development toward Engineering Council registration (IEng or CEng)
- APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ) or equivalent project management training
- Development in project controls, risk management and commercial management
- Water-industry technical and regulatory training
- Internal technical and project management training