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Costain Group
GBR
Full-time
Mid
Hybrid
Discovered 5 days ago

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Qualifications

  • Essential
  • Degree or HNC/HND in engineering, construction management, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrable industry experience in planning/project controls.
  • Desirable
  • APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or working towards Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) status.
  • Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g., APM Planning, Monitoring & Control SIG).

Responsibilities

  • Schedule Development & Maintenance: Build and maintain resource- and cost-loaded schedules (Primavera P6 and/or MS Project) for engineering design packages, aligned to scope, contract, and client requirements including integrated logic from supplier and sub-contract packages where required.
  • Progress Monitoring & Reporting: Collect and validate progress data; produce progress reports, S-curves, KPI dashboards, and look-aheads for project and client reporting cycles.
  • Baseline & Change Control: Support baseline management and change control processes and provide schedule input to risk and opportunity registers.
  • Interdisciplinary Coordination: Liaise with discipline engineers and leads to gather programme inputs, dependencies, and constraints; attend and contribute to progress and planning review meetings.
  • Variance & Critical Path Analysis: Analyse schedule variances, critical path, and trends; flag slippage early and support the development of recovery plans.
  • Governance Support: Support monthly reporting cycles, stage gate reviews, and lessons-learned capture in line with project controls governance requirements.
  • Continuous Improvement: Contribute to standardisation of planning templates, processes, and tools to improve consistency and efficiency across the planning team.
  • Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
  • Essential
  • Demonstrable experience developing and maintaining project schedules within an engineering services environment.
  • Proficient in Primavera P6 and/or MS Project, including resource and cost loading.
  • Solid understanding of scheduling principles and logic: critical path method, baselining, progress measurement, and earned value basics.
  • Ability to produce clear, accurate progress, risk, and KPI reporting for varied audiences.
  • Good communication, collaboration and coordination skills across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
  • Desirable
  • Experience of quantitative schedule risk analysis (QSRA) tools (e.g., Safran Risk, Primavera Risk Analysis).
  • Experience working in the water sector (Ofwat AMP framework)
  • Experience working in the Oil & Gas or Industrial Process sectors
  • Experience working in transportation sectors (e.g. Roads, Rail)

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