Engineering Team Lead (Nuclear and Energy) in Manchester

This is an exciting and challenging role as an Engineering Team Lead in a growing team of 130+ Civil & Structural Engineers and Designers. Our department covers a range of projects from Concept Studies through to Detailed Design, providing a variety of interesting work. Industries can range across Water, Transportation, Energy, Nuclear and Defence.

Working in a multi-disciplinary team delivering infrastructure projects mainly within the Nuclear and Energy sector. You will be responsible for the delivery of civil and structural advice, analysis, calculations, reports and specifications. Taking responsibility for leading small projects and sub tasks from a technical perspective. Communicate designs effectively to the BIM teams, other disciplines, construction personnel and stakeholders. Attendance occasionally required for site visits, design reviews and client meetings, mainly within the Northwest region. Support and guide more junior team members. Challenge and deliver value engineering solutions. Confident and authoritative in front of clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing a team of 40 Engineers and Graduates including resource allocation, team utilisation, competency and performance management.
• Interfacing effectively with project management functions, other engineering disciplines and construction teams.
• Developing engineering and design execution plans for bids and projects.
• Providing time/cost estimates for energy and nuclear sector projects.
• Ensure that engineering work is being completed in accordance with relevant codes, standards and company/client procedures.
• Maintaining the required technical quality of work produced by the team.
• Contributing towards project work with engineering analysis, calculations and reporting.
• Ensuring all assigned work is carried out in compliance with agreed budget and schedule and project risks/changes are identified and accurately controlled.
• Providing engineering input to design, checks and advice, including innovating, developing new solutions and contribute towards value engineering.
• Leading the development of knowledge and skills within the team, including assisting in the training and technical development of designers and apprentices.
• Communicating and collaborating with clients, projects and sites to promote the C&S engineering team capability.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience in energy/infrastructure at all stages of the project lifecycle.
• Good knowledge of design working practices and requirements of the discipline across energy/nuclear industries.
• Extensive knowledge of UK legislation and standards and CDM implementation.
• Awareness of risk identification, quantification, management and of HSE requirements.

Desirable

• Experience with optioneering assessments, defining scopes of work, supporting estimates and business development.
• Greenfield and Brownfield project experience within energy/nuclear section.
• Experience in leading teams and supporting more junior engineers.
• Knowledge and experience of common forms of contracts.
• Project Management experience.

Qualifications

Essential

• Minimum BEng Civil or Structural Engineering.
• Chartered Engineer with the ICE or IStructE.
• Eligible for security clearance.

Desirable

• A Project Management qualification.
• CCNSG.

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 appreciates 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.

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