Design Package Manager

As a Junior Project Manager, you will manage a small team of cross functional experts in delivering small size/low complexity projects, bids and business development activities, within scope, to time, and on budget. 

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At Costain, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If you’re passionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our team, we’d love to hear from you—even if you don’t tick every box. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need

Responsibilities

• Develop project schedules and monitor against the schedule goals for a small project or several work packages
• Initiate and manage the project and the team to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.
• Select and tailor the appropriate delivery methodology in line with organizational P3M guidelines and the project complexity assessment.
• Identify skill requirements and work with relevant resource owners and deploy resources as project progresses through its stages.
• Determine stakeholder interests, requirements and levels of influence, and actively manage communications and stakeholder engagement to support the successful project delivery and inform decision making.
• Cascade vision and translate into delivery objectives and work packages for the team.
• Develop and monitor cost and schedule baseline (budgets, management reserve, undistributed budget, network schedules, and scope changes) for projects  
• Conduct effective Risk Management, ensuring that risks are recorded, managed and tracked  ensuring all the risks with wider implications are escalated.
• Provide key reports and ensure effective governance, decision making and timely escalation of issues and early warning signs.

• Manage contractual requirements and payment milestones with clients and suppliers. 

   

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• An interest in  [the industry working in ].
• Good IT literacy.
• A willingness to learn with appropriate instruction.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbally
• An organised individual that can work well to deadline
• Building and maintaining positive working relationships
• Someone that enjoys challenges and problem solving in their day-to-day work and working in teams.

• Suitable relevant project experience within engineering/construction/…. projects, including the application of project management processes 

   

Desirable

• Good MS Office skills
• APM Project Management Qualification or equivalent 

Essential

• Equivalent of 5 GCSEs, grades A*-C or 9-4 including Science, English, ideally with a Grade B or above in Maths
• Bachelor’s degree or working towards a degree in Project Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering or Engineering is preferred
• Currently pursuing or recently completed a diploma or degree in Project Management, Project Controls, Data Analytics, Construction, Engineering, or a related field

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