Project Manager

Costain; Dunfermline; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure solutions firm is looking for a Project Manager in Dunfermline, Scotland. This mid-senior level role involves managing complex project plans, ensuring compliance with nuclear safety and quality standards, and leading a team for effective performance. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience in handling multifaceted technical challenges. This role offers full-time employment in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer CEng or equivalent professional status.
• Ability to analyze multifaceted technical and logistical challenges.
• Experience managing design-to-delivery transitions.

Responsibilities

• Manage project plans aligning with Project Execution Plan.
• Lead a team ensuring appropriate resourcing and performance.
• Ensure delivery activities comply with safety and quality standards.

Skills

Chartered Engineer CEng

Ability to analyze multifaceted challenges

Decision making under pressure

Managing multiple workstreams

Effective communication of complex information

Trust building through transparency

Education

NEC qualification or equivalent

NVQ

Job description

Overview

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Responsibilities

• Helping WPM who is accountable for managing dry dock and Berth activity work packages and supply chain setting direction and deploying resource.
• Helping WPM who is accountable for combined project performance for dry dock & Berth.
• Helping WPM who is accountable for the development of project plans ensuring alignment with the Project Execution Plan (PEP) and programme strategy.
• Helping WPM who is accountable for achieving key physical milestones, including enabling works, construction phases, and readiness for commissioning.
• Helping WPM who ensures effective coordination between design, construction, commissioning, supply chain and between projects
• Helping WPM who ensures delivery risks are identified for their project remit, and supply chain elevating critical risks and ensuring mitigation plans are in place.
• Helping WPM who ensures that all changes to project scope, schedule, or cost are controlled and aligned with programme governance.
• Helping WPM who leads a team and supply chain, ensuring appropriate resourcing, mobilisation, and performance.
• Helping WPM who ensures delivery activities comply with nuclear safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.
• Helping WPM who ensure timely assurance delivery
• Helping WPM provide accurate and timely delivery updates to his/her supervisor
• Helps WPM oversee Dry Dock and Berth activities, and supply chain ensuring alignment with safety, quality, and schedule
• Help WPM ensure that engineering and design outputs are translated effectively into project deliverables.
• Help WPM coordinate interfaces between supply chain and other teams
• Help WPM who is responsible for project KPIs for schedule, cost, quality, and safety performance for areas managed.
• Help WPM maintain and act on a live register of delivery risks and issues, for project and supply chain escalating where necessary.
• Help WPM manage change control processes for their area.
• Help champion nuclear safety and quality standards throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Help WPM ensure effective coordination with the supply chain.

Qualifications

Essential

• Chartered Engineer CEng/Chartered MAPM or equivalent professional status or working to
• NEC qualification or equivalent
• NVQ
• Ability to analyse multifaceted technical, logistical challenges and develop practical, risk-informed solutions.
• Anticipates downstream impacts of decisions and integrates long-term considerations into short-term actions.
• Makes sound decisions under pressure, often with incomplete or evolving information.
• Balances competing priorities such as safety, cost, schedule, and stakeholder expectations.
• Effectively manages multiple workstreams, deadlines, and stakeholder demands in a high-pressure environment.
• Focuses attention on critical path activities and high-impact issues.
• Clearly conveys complex technical and programme information to diverse audiences
• Works effectively across multidisciplinary teams, fostering a cooperative and inclusive environment.
• Demonstrates awareness of team dynamics and individual needs, supporting team morale and wellbeing.
• Builds trust through transparency, consistency, and integrity in all interactions.
• Actively listens to concerns, feedback, and ideas from team members and stakeholders.
• Able to manage multiple supply chains.

Desirable

• Proven experience in delivering large-scale, complex infrastructure projects ideally in nuclear structures (Cat A)
• Deep understanding of construction methodologies, sequencing, and commissioning processes.
• Skilled in managing design-to-delivery transitions and resolving technical interface issues.
• Experience in delivery assurance, quality control, and performance reporting.
• Ideally an understanding of nuclear safety principles, construction safety, and quality assurance standards.
• Experience implementing structured change control processes in high-assurance environments.
• Understanding of configuration management and technical baselining

About Us

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 five services covering 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.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview. A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that discloses 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

Seniorilty level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Project Management and Information Technology

Industries

• Civil Engineering

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