Senior Agent

Costain have won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have been appointed by United Utilities as one of 7 partners to the Enterprise, delivering £5.5bn of projects in the Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8) between 2025 – 2030, and AMP 9 (2030 – 2035). Our scope is to provide project management, design, construction and commissioning services on design and build schemes throughout the North West and Cumbria region covered by United Utilities. Projects vary in value, covering both infrastructure and non-infrastructure assets on water and wastewater sites with wider Enterprise partners

The Senior Site Agent will support the delivery of projects allocated to Costain and ranging in value from £12m - £150m in this first wave. You will work across the project lifecycle from concept, ECI, delivery and through handover and will be leading our design and delivery team in engagement with site operational teams and supply chain partners (on one or multiple sites). You will be developing our construction strategies and programmes and ensuring we are setting up and delivering safely, to quality, time and budget

The role will be site based, at Glebe Road and/or Hawkshead near Windermere, Cumbria

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.

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• Responsibilities: Responsibilities

  Collaborate with the wider team to develop robust plans and forecasts for delivery aligned to the requirements of the Costain Way and Enterprise processes
  Lead on the development of the delivery strategies and programme, budget development and delivery of work packages; ensuring robust scope challenge throughout whilst ensuring we meet the requirements
  Lead in the development of collaborative relationships with site operations teams, our supply chain and site delivery teams for effective delivery of your allocated site/s
  Create and lead a positive working culture to promote safe, efficient and high-quality delivery adapting plans to accommodate changes or improvements
  Support the drive to achieve zero LTI and RIDDOR incidents
  Ensure consistent and reliable reporting of project/services performance into the Framework

  Report key project and programme risks and work with the wider team to mitigate or manage effectively

  Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

  Essential

  Package management experience for packages over £1m (preferably multiple packages concurrently or a single large value package)

  Experience of on site delivery, managing supply chain partners, your own team and collaborating with wider disciplines to support safe delivery

  Familiarity and experience of delivery to NEC contract forms

  Good communication and interpersonal skills

  Relevant CSCS card

  Willingness to work across multiple sites throughout the North West

Qualifications: Essential

HNC/HND or degree in a relevant engineering discipline
SMSTS minimum
CSCS card aligned to role
Recongised engineering / site management qualifications

• IOSH or similar safety certification

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 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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