Costain
Head of Delivery - Brighton
Job Location
Brighton, United Kingdom
Job Description
Head of Delivery - BrightonCostain have a rare opportunity for a Head of Delivery to take a Strategic lead role within a highly respected main partner operating in the Southern Water (SWS) sector region. This is a senior appointment, and we are looking for someone with real drive and passion to further strengthen the CMDP relationship with SWS and take the framework to the next level.
About the Role
Reporting directly to the Framework Director, this is a hands-on role, as well as strategic management, client development, people management, community and customer orientation with a digital vision.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the CMDP team in all aspects of delivery
Provide strategic and professional guidance to Construction Managers, Project Managers and wider members of the team
Actively champion wellbeing, safety and environment performance, and compliance throughout your team to create a safety culture to ensure Zero LTI and RIDDOR Incidents
Develop and maintain a high-performance culture across the CMDP team, delivering efficiencies and continuous improvement
Provide whole life oversight and accountability for the successful delivery of projects, through design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and handover
Deliver commercial and financial performance in line with budget expectations
Promote and actively demonstrate collaborative behaviours within the CMDP JV team
Ensure compliance with SWS and CMDP governance requirements
Establish and grow excellent relationships with SWS and other Delivery Partners
About You
Extensive experience in leading, managing, developing, and motivating senior people and teams - your leadership skills will be key to success in this role
Able to demonstrate a real passion for construction and project delivery
Significant amount of contract delivery experience where you have successfully managed a regional framework of multiple projects and/or programmes of a complex or critical nature in a collaborative delivery environment
Technical understanding of Water and Wastewater treatment
Confident making high risk decisions whilst maintaining your commitment to excellence
Strong communicator with the ability to build strong, trusting stakeholder and partner relationships and influence at all levels to achieve mutual success
Excellent knowledge, and experience of CDM and Construction & Engineering Management
Solid commercial, financial and analytical skills
Experience with Digital Strategy in construction
Qualifications and Training HNC/HND or degree in a relevant engineering discipline SMSTS qualification NEC PM accreditation (preferred) Association of Project Management APMP (preferred)
For a full job description, please contact careers@costain.com quoting the vacancy number.
About Costain
At Costain, we help to improve people's lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet to thrive.
We work together to shape, create, and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the UK's infrastructure ecosystem across energy, water, transportation and defence markets. Through our collaboration with customers, partners, communities, and wider industry we will deliver an infrastructure fit for a better future.
Your application
Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: careers@costain.com
We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.
We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.
To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:
https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/
Right to Work & Security Checks
Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we'll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.
For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.
Closing date
Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares 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
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Location: Brighton, GB
Posted Date: 11/5/2024
About the Role
Reporting directly to the Framework Director, this is a hands-on role, as well as strategic management, client development, people management, community and customer orientation with a digital vision.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the CMDP team in all aspects of delivery
Provide strategic and professional guidance to Construction Managers, Project Managers and wider members of the team
Actively champion wellbeing, safety and environment performance, and compliance throughout your team to create a safety culture to ensure Zero LTI and RIDDOR Incidents
Develop and maintain a high-performance culture across the CMDP team, delivering efficiencies and continuous improvement
Provide whole life oversight and accountability for the successful delivery of projects, through design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and handover
Deliver commercial and financial performance in line with budget expectations
Promote and actively demonstrate collaborative behaviours within the CMDP JV team
Ensure compliance with SWS and CMDP governance requirements
Establish and grow excellent relationships with SWS and other Delivery Partners
About You
Extensive experience in leading, managing, developing, and motivating senior people and teams - your leadership skills will be key to success in this role
Able to demonstrate a real passion for construction and project delivery
Significant amount of contract delivery experience where you have successfully managed a regional framework of multiple projects and/or programmes of a complex or critical nature in a collaborative delivery environment
Technical understanding of Water and Wastewater treatment
Confident making high risk decisions whilst maintaining your commitment to excellence
Strong communicator with the ability to build strong, trusting stakeholder and partner relationships and influence at all levels to achieve mutual success
Excellent knowledge, and experience of CDM and Construction & Engineering Management
Solid commercial, financial and analytical skills
Experience with Digital Strategy in construction
Qualifications and Training HNC/HND or degree in a relevant engineering discipline SMSTS qualification NEC PM accreditation (preferred) Association of Project Management APMP (preferred)
For a full job description, please contact careers@costain.com quoting the vacancy number.
About Costain
At Costain, we help to improve people's lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet to thrive.
We work together to shape, create, and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the UK's infrastructure ecosystem across energy, water, transportation and defence markets. Through our collaboration with customers, partners, communities, and wider industry we will deliver an infrastructure fit for a better future.
Your application
Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: careers@costain.com
We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.
We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.
To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:
https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/
Right to Work & Security Checks
Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we'll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.
For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.
Closing date
Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares 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
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Location: Brighton, GB
Posted Date: 11/5/2024
Contact Information
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