Programme Director
About this role
First appointed by United Utilities as its Managed Service Provider (MSP) in 2019, Costain continue delivery of the AMP8 capital maintenance programme with the latest three-year extension.
Since 2019 our team of more than 120 professionals and engineers have:
- Provided a reactive, round-the-clock maintenance service across United Utilities’ sites
- Developed a multi-disciplined supply chain to deliver more than 900 capital maintenance projects and approximately 9,000 responsive maintenance activities
- Helped United Utilities to meet more than 160 key regulatory commitments ahead of schedule whilst maintaining excellent safety, health and environmental performance
Due to an internal role-move the opportunity has arisen for a Programme Director to take over the leadership of the MSP contract for Costain.
Leading with a growth mindset, the successful candidate will have a passion for delivering outstanding customer service, as well as actively identifying and embracing opportunities to continually improve performance.
The client’s head office is based in Lingley Mere, Warrington. It is anticipated that the Programme Director will work dynamically between both the client’s head office, operational sites, the Costain Manchester office, and their home location.
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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Company at a glance
Costain helps to improve people’s lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet thrive. We shape, create and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets.
We are organised around our customers anticipating and solving their challenges and helping to improve performance. By bringing together our unique mix of construction, consulting and digital experts we engineer and deliver sustainable, efficient and practical solutions.
Our ambition is to become a net zero business by 2035, while enhancing biodiversity and natural capital, and we have plans in place to deliver this. We are committed to procure responsibly and to be an inclusive and accessible business for all, enabling us to be our best while focusing on the outcomes that we deliver for people and planet.
At Costain, we have a vibrant, challenging and growing business – an environment that provides tremendous opportunities for everybody. We're looking for curious, collaborative and courageous people who'll help transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem across the UK. For more information about our careers go to www.costain.com/careers
Today, we employ around 3,500 people and have been named in the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2023.
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