Project Director

We seek a Project Director, with experience in highways roads maintenance and operations background to lead the successful shaping of solutions to secure roads maintenance opportunities and lead the successful delivery ensuring safe and efficient operations.

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Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Shaping solutions to secure opportunities incorporating innovative and value adding solutions
• Lead contract mobilisation, performance management, financial performance, programme delivery, and customer relationships.
• Drive a proactive safety culture, ensuring compliance with CDM regulations, SHEQ standards, and continuous improvement in safe working practices.
• Manage client and stakeholder relationships, acting as the senior point of contact with National Highways/local authorities and representing the business at governance forums.
• Provide robust commercial leadership, ensuring effective cost control, change management, forecasting, and commercial risk mitigation.
• Develop and lead high-performing teams, ensuring capability, resource planning, succession, and performance management across delivery and support functions.
• Lead continuous improvement and innovation, driving efficiencies, digital adoption, sustainability initiatives, and operational best practice.
• Champion the use of our performance and operational data and digital tools available to drive operational decisions and performance

 

Knowledge

Essential

• Experienced operational, delivery and customer focused leader with strong people and leadership skills
• Generous amount of practical experience where you have successfully managed and delivered roads maintenance frameworks
• Ability to build trusted relationships with key client stakeholders, within your team and across the Costain group
• Strong commercial and contractual understanding, including NEC contract management, cost control and change management
• A champion for safety, health, environment and quality by putting safety and wellbeing and the heart of everything we do
• Good problem-solving skills, able to provide solutions and direction
• Flexibility and adaptability to be able to respond rapidly to unexpected events, having the ability to shape our response appropriately

Qualifications

Essential

• HNC/HND or degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent
• Member of relevant professional body

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.