Head of Delivery

Head of Delivery

Costain have a rare opportunity for a Head of Delivery to take a Strategic lead role within a highly respected main partner operating in the Southern Water (SWS) sector region. This is a senior appointment, and we are looking for someone with real drive and passion to further strengthen the CMDP relationship with SWS and take the framework to the next level.

About The Role

Reporting directly to the Framework Director, this is a hands-on role, as well as strategic management, client development, people management, community and customer orientation with a digital vision.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the CMDP team in all aspects of delivery

Provide strategic and professional guidance to Construction Managers,





Project Managers and wider members of the team

Actively champion wellbeing, safety and environment performance, and compliance throughout your team to create a safety culture to ensure Zero LTI and RIDDOR Incidents

Develop and maintain a high-performance culture across the CMDP team, delivering efficiencies and continuous improvement

Provide whole life oversight and accountability for the successful delivery of projects, through design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and handover

Deliver commercial and financial performance in line with budget expectations

Promote and actively demonstrate collaborative behaviours within the CMDP JV team

Ensure compliance with SWS and CMDP governance requirements

Establish and grow excellent relationships with SWS and other Delivery Partners

About You

Extensive experience in leading, managing, developing, and motivating senior people and teams - your leadership skills will be key to success in this role







Able to demonstrate a real passion for construction and project delivery

Significant amount of contract delivery experience where you have successfully managed a regional framework of multiple projects and/or programmes of a complex or critical nature in a collaborative delivery environment

Technical understanding of Water and Wastewater treatment

Confident making high risk decisions whilst maintaining your commitment to excellence

Strong communicator with the ability to build strong, trusting stakeholder and partner relationships and influence at all levels to achieve mutual success

Excellent knowledge, and experience of CDM and Construction & Engineering Management

Solid commercial, financial and analytical skills

Experience with Digital Strategy in construction







Qualifications And Training

HNC/HND or degree in a relevant engineering discipline

SMSTS qualification

NEC PM accreditation (preferred)

Association of Project Management APMP (preferred)

For a full job description, please contact [email protected] quoting the vacancy number.

About Costain

At Costain, we help to improve people’s lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet to thrive.

We work together to shape, create, and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the UK’s infrastructure ecosystem across energy, water, transportation and defence markets. Through our collaboration with customers, partners, communities,





and wider industry we will deliver an infrastructure fit for a better future.

Your application

Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: [email protected]

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I; page:

https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/

Right to Work & Security Checks







Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

Closing date







Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares 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

▶️ Head of Delivery
🖊️ COSTAIN GROUP
📍 Brighton