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Project Controls Manager
Costain
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Source date: 11/4/2026
About this role
Job Description The Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) project currently involves the planning, design and construction of circa 320km of new strategic, large diameter, clean water interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure across Anglian Water’s region. The SPA Alliance is also taking on responsibility for the future interconnector pipelines, a further 260km of strategic interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure. The role will be hybrid and be required to attend the Peterborough office 2 days a week (days to be agreed). 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. LI-KP1 Key Responsibilities Responsible for undertaking project reviews (health checks) and providing reports to be included in the monthly reporting cycle to the Delivery Partner and Client Boards. Ensure effective collaborative planning is carried out for the project. Understand and report on them management of float and contingency across the project. Advise and consult on the application of effective planning techniques and controls and provide reports and commentary capturing earned value, cost and schedule variance, estimates and completion, critical path analysis, safety performance etc. Work closely with the relevant Delivery team, Commercial managers and their staff across the project. Develop, own and continuously improve Project Control processes for the project. Provide training to the wider team, where necessary, on Project Control tools and techniques. Suggest and implement Project Control systems across the Major Infrastructure portfolio; ensuring alignment with the wider Anglian Water business Responsible for providing reporting and analysis on the project Responsible for building and maintaining reports across the project Ensure that reporting is based on accurate, on time, quality and compliant data, ensuring a ‘1 version of the truth’ approach. Ability to present at senior forums Undertake audits on schedules across the project to ensure that project controls are being effectively implemented, in line with Major Infrastructure policies and best practice Suggest improvements following audits and assist project teams to make these improvements Facilitate Lessons Learnt meetings following key project milestones to ensure that a continual improvement mentality is embedded within the Major Infrastructure team Champion of risk management across the project Ownership of the risk management system across the project Present to the SLT on the risk position of the project. Knowledge, Skills, and Experience Site based or engineering background Experience of major infrastructure projects / programmes Computer literate, with significant project reporting experience, including Power-Bi. Excellent collaboration and facilitation skills, ability to engage with all levels Ability to plan ahead and foresee future risks and suggest appropriate actions Good communicator able to communicate detailed data to a non-data literate audience and influence at all levels Ability to provide accurate reports, in excel, word, powerpoint and power-bi format Ability to work to tight deadlines, manage/prioritise workloads, to adapt and challenge Exceptional stakeholder management and leadership skills Strong organisational, prioritisation and risk management skills Good understanding of business risk and risk management process Desirable Experience within the Water industry is advantageous, but not essential Essential Full, clean UK driving licence Desirable Appropriate Membership of one or more project management professional bodies (i.e. APM) 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. We do share individual feedback following an interview. A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose 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 Job Info Job Identification 103532 Job Category Project Management Posting Date 11/04/2026 Job Schedule Full time Locations Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom (Hybrid) Contract Type Permanent Driving Required Yes Security Clearance Required No