Consulting


Programme & Project Management
CPMS is one of the UK’s leading providers of project management services to the rail industry and can facilitate the provision of fully integrated, high performing management teams through to extremely experienced specialist resource.
CPMS has the necessary skills to provide our clients with safe, efficient and value driven solutions for any project; from programme management for complex multi-million-pound programmes through to small discrete projects.
Our skills, experience and services can be easily transferred to other infrastructure sectors such as highways and property. From the provision of a fully integrated, high performing management team through to extremely experienced site construction personnel, CPMS has the skills to provide our clients with safe, efficient and value driven solutions for any project and has the full suite of RISQS accreditations to support this.
- Provide a complete delivery team (PMO) or individuals to seamlessly integrate into a client or contractor organisation or team
- Expert full project lifecycle delivery
- Bespoke deep dives, programme interrogation and recovery
- Integration and management of multiple stakeholders
- Certified to fully discharge CDM duties of the Principal Designer/Contractor
- Engineering assurance and construction management
Are you good at multitasking, problem solving and work well within a team? This role involves planning, managing time, money, and risks. It is a varied and fast paced role that’s fundamental to successful delivery.
“I manage and coordinate all the disciplines needed to successfully deliver a project on time and within budget. I get an overview of all stages within the project lifecycle and can often apply efficiencies across disciplines by helping teams to work together to solve problems. “Brett Chatwin – Project Manager
If you would like to work with us in Programme & Project Management please contact careers@cpmsgroup.com
Commercial Management, Procurement & Cost Planning
CPMS provides clients with support to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget, highlighting potential risks and issues as early as possible.
CPMS provide industry leading expertise in cost planning, procurement and post-contract management, creating collaborative relationships for driving cost efficiencies.
- Cost Planning & Estimating
- Procurement & Tendering
- Pre-Contract Commercial Management
- Post – Contract Commercial Management
- Final Accounting, Claims Management and Closeout
Whether cost planning, procuring works, managing post-contract issues, creating mutually beneficial contractual relationships, or finding cost efficiencies. CPMS has the skills, knowledge and experience to aid successful delivery.
We understand the full project life-cycle from estimating to pricing and construction, and the importance of always identifying and mitigating risks at every step of the process.
Are you good at managing budgets and contracts throughout the project life-cycle while identifying cost efficiencies? Working in Commercial involves maximising profitability while monitoring and controlling internal processes as well as managing external relationships with subcontractors and clients.
If you would like to work with us in Commercial please contact careers@cpmsgroup.com
Safety, Environment, Assurance & Sustainability
CPMS recognise’s that improved safety, assurance, and care for the environment only happen when positive changes to working culture are entrenched. CPMS go beyond the normal ‘tick box’ approach to help clients change ‘hearts and minds’ and embed lasting change. CPMS’ advice is backed up by experience, an understanding of how to spark culture change and formal accreditation’s.
At CPMS this underpins everything we do, ensuring that the economic, environmental, and social benefits experienced by people impacted by our activities are at the forefront of our approach.
CPMS holds four ISO accreditations ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018. This demonstrates our consistent commitment to delivering high quality services underpinned by robust processes and procedures. We have successfully supported our clients to achieve Principal Contractor licences and have discharged the key Construction (Design Management) Regulations duties of Principal Contractor and Principal Designer for our clients.
- Provide you professional experts in safety, Environmental and Assurance
- Auditing services and Common Safety Method (CSM) Risk Assessment
- Develop, manage, improve and embed safety/environmental management system
- Support in obtaining/maintaining of a principal contractor licence and formal accreditations
- Environmental surveys, impact assessment and mitigation plans
- Secure and retain Development Consents Order (DCO), and Transport and Work Act (TWAO)
Are you good at problem solving, work well as part of a team and like to always look for continuous improvement? Health & Safety involves putting yourself in the shoes of our delivery staff to help them work safely and efficiently in harmony with the environment, and in compliance with industry standards.
If you would like to work in our Safety, Environment, Assurance & Sustainability please contact careers@cpmsgroup.com
Project Controls & Governance
CPMS Project Controls and Governance offering goes beyond establishing and operating systems and processes to control project information. Our skill is in how our specialist team brings information to life for the benefit of all stakeholders.
CPMS’ approach to successful project delivery is through a single source of reliable and controlled information to facilitate informed and efficient decision making.
- Schedule creation/ Railway possession scheduling
- Oracle Primavera certified staff
- Reporting architecture design and implementation
- Document Management
- Project Governance arrangements
- Establishing governance process
- Working on optimising projects through governance systems like Network Rail’s GRIP / Treasury’s Green Book
We have experts in planning, reporting, cost engineering, estimating and risk management.
Our planning experts have not only pioneered 4D planning – the integration of design modelling with Oracle Primavera © sequencing – but continuously work hard to maximise the integrity of possession programmes for our clients where accurate programmes, updates and forecasts, are essential to make sure the railway reopens on time.
The CPMS team have a wide range of experience in differing sectors from nuclear, oil and gas, water, defence, and healthcare. We always seek to import best practice and find the right solution for our clients.
We recognise that to deliver success we need simple clear and easy to understand reports that are used and embraced by project teams.
We always seek to implement the best system for our clients – embracing new solutions like Tableau © or Microsoft Power BI © – but also recognising that smaller scale projects and teams simply need a traffic light report or whiteboard update. We listen to our clients to make sure they have the right tools to deliver success.
We support clients navigating and controlling imbedded governance processes like Network Rail’s Guide to Railway Investment Projects (GRIP) and provide advice on creating and embedding governance processes for new teams.
Are you a people person able to draw insight from each conversation? A project controls role at CPMS is different to anywhere else – we need passionate individuals that can interact with other people, understand complex problems, analyse detail and then replay that information simply and succinctly.
We will teach you the technical skills you need in planning, risk management, cost engineering, estimating or governance but you will need that inherent people skill to join our successful team.
If you would like to work in Project Controls & Governance please contact careers@cpmsgroup.com