Hybrid Head of Water – Engineering Services

at Costain Group PLC

• Job title: Head of Water – Engineering Services
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Manchester, United Kingdom

About the role

• Head of Water leading multi-disciplinary engineering services across various water projects for Costain. Fostering client relations and driving successful delivery outcomes within the Water sector.

Responsibilities

• Engineering pipeline and resource forecasting
• Responsible for working with the Water sector teams to gain insight of the engineering services pipeline and maximise opportunities for internal delivery of engineering services. Must accurately forecast future resource needs within the sector to inform multi-disciplinary resource requirements and recruitment to meet demand. Expected to ensure the collective team skillsets and deployed resources accurately align with current and future project demands and complexity.
• Project Delivery & Progress Reporting
• Responsible for leading the successful delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering services across all Water projects and contracts, managing teams of Project Engineering Managers with individual project responsibility and ensuring optimal operation of the Water engineering delivery teams. Will ensure scope and service requirements, budgets and programmes are clearly defined and adhered to. Will be responsible for monitoring progress against budget and programme and clear reporting of this to senior management, sectors and clients.
• Technical Governance & Quality
• Must work with Engineering Discipline managers to ensure the delivery of technically compliant and quality-controlled designs which meet scope requirements, ensuring all the necessary technical and regulatory assurance activities have been undertaken across the program lifecycle. To input into the development, management and maintenance of corporate technical management systems, including digital integration. Expected to proactively assist in resolving complex technical and delivery issues where identified.
• Strategy & Growth
• Be involved in the development and robust implementation of Costain’s overarching engineering strategy within the Water space, fostering client relations and driving successful delivery outcomes aligned with Costain’s strategic drivers. Responsible for enhancing Costain’s internal engineering capability and workload volumes to drive growth ambitions.
• Work Winning
• Collaborate strategically with Account Directors to forecast service demand and proactively identify early client opportunities, coordinating the in-house engineering contribution to develop best in class value propositions and winning bids. Must identify and monitor engineering budgets and resource requirements for tender activities and ensure compliance with all internal governance processes.
• Risk, Change & Continuous Improvement
• Facilitate the capturing and clear communication of technical risks and opportunities to all stakeholders. Oversee the effective management of design change, applying a systematic challenge to minimise unnecessary scope variation. Act as a visible leader in developing a design delivery culture that emphasises ownership and accountability. Embed a structured approach to lessons learned and apply continuous improvement principles to all aspects of engineering services.

Requirements

• Degree qualification in a relevant engineering discipline
• Chartered Engineer (ICE, IMechE, IStructE, IET, IChemE, CIOB, CIHT, other)

Benefits

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