Job Description

Cadent is the UK's largest Gas Distribution Company, operating 4 of the 8 UK Gas Distribution Networks (East of England, London, NorthWest and West Midlands). Their service spans over 131,000 kilometres of pipes supplying to 11 million homes & businesses. Costain is the preferred bidder for the East of England.

Costain is closely aligned with Cadent's objectives, embedding governance, assurance, and value engineering principles across every stage of project delivery, while ensuring transparency and accountability throughout. The end-to-end Project Management Office (PMO), led by the PMO Lead, will enable Cadent to maintain full visibility over project investments and improve forecast accuracy -

The Junior Project Managers main purpose is to assist in managing the company wide portfolio of projects and in doing so:

• Help co-ordinate the overall transformation portfolio enabling smooth projects running end to end
• Support the head of TMO in ensuring effective project and change management achieve the intended benefits
• Ensure that we report against predictability performance and cost for projects

This role requires one day a week in our Coventry office.

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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Click the link for the job description, responsibilities, and qualifications - PRJF01 - Junior Project Manager.pdf

Responsibilities

• Directly support projects and programmes to enable delivery, providing guidance to Project Managers
• Support Project Managers with Project Controls and coordinating responses
• Produce information and reports for Governance meetings within Capital Delivery
• Ensure all new and in-flight projects follow the agreed project methodologies and have appropriate governance in place that support successful delivery of projects
• Provide a "single source of the truth" for information to Project Managers, which is accurate and relevant in-line with the mantra of "no surprises"
• Support the development of Risk Management Plans.
• Lead Risk Identification by hosting risk workshops, risk interviews and data collation

Qualifications

Essential

• Has a recognised Project Management qualification or solid experience in Project Management/Project Controls
• Relevant experience within a Multi Discipline Project Management or Project Control environment
• Strong communications skills with the ability to relate to people at all levels, particularly with Client Representatives in the support of stakeholder management.
• Competent IT skills including MS PowerPoint and MS Excel with the ability to use this to manipulate data and produce data gathering templates
• Can work to tight timescales and works well under pressure
• Have a good level of understanding of risk management methodologies and techniques
• Power BI Skills.
• Experience of working in a PMO

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.

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.

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