Junior Project Manager

Job Description

Cadent is the UK’s largest Gas Distribution Company, operating 4 of the 8 UK Gas Distribution Networks (East of England, London, North West 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. 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 – guaranteeing successful delivery of Cadent’s Capital Delivery Integrated Security Solution.

The role will be home based, with weekly travel attendance in the Coventry office.

• 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 supports 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”
• Document the Risk Management Plan to provide a clear methodology, including specific project Risk Management Plans
• Lead Risk Identification by hosting risk workshops, risk interviews and data collation

• Good understanding of project management methodologies
• Good communication skills
• Full UK driving licence

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.

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