About this role
Due to significant growth in our water sector, a Preconstruction Manager role has become available to join our delivery team, working on the United Utilities (UU) Water Complex Delivery Partner (CDP) Framework.
Costain have won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have been appointed by UU to the CDP Enterprise to help shape and deliver its strategic infrastructure upgrade programme over the next 5-10 years.
The Preconstruction Manager will support the planning, development, and execution of water infrastructure projects during the preconstruction phase. This role works closely with project managers, estimators, engineers, and external stakeholders to ensure all technical, financial, and logistical elements are thoroughly prepared before construction begins. You will play a key role in gathering project data, managing documentation, coordinating design deliverables, and supporting accurate cost development for water and wastewater facilities, pipelines, pump stations, and related civil infrastructure.
Once secured you will support the design and preconstruction teams through the UU gateway process in advance of on site delivery where you will handover to the individual Delivery Leads and relevant construction teams.
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.
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Other facts
About Costain Group
On the 17th August 2015 Costain, the engineering solutions provider, announced on the London Stock Exchange, the acquisition of Rhead Group. This will further enhance Costain's programme management and advisory capability across all the Company's activities as part of an integrated service offer.
For more information please see Costain's website www.costain.com or visit the LinkedIn page for updates.
What you'll do
- The Preconstruction Manager will support the planning, development, and execution of water infrastructure projects during the preconstruction phase. This includes gathering project data, managing documentation, and coordinating design deliverables.
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