Senior Project Engineer (Water) - Manchester in Clayton

Costain Engineering Ltd (CEL) is a part of the Costain Group PLC delivering packages of Engineering Design throughout the Project Lifecycle for construction. CEL works on nationally critical infrastructure across a range of sectors including Water, Energy, Nuclear, Roads & Transportation.

This Senior Project Engineer role will be predominantly working for the Water division of CEL where a multi-disciplinary team (including Process, Civil/Structural, Geotechnical, Mechanical, Electrical ICA and Hydraulics) deliver engineering designs for a number of Water Authorities across England through its AMP8 programme with a pipeline of work planned across the upcoming AMP9 investment plan.

The team focuses on delivering best value, affordable solutions whilst eliminating harm by producing schemes that are safe to build, operate and maintain. As a Senior Project Engineer, you will be responsible for a key element of work on a project taking a significant role in technical delivery as well as managing aspects of time, cost and quality and will acquire technical, leadership and project management skills and experience.

Working alongside experienced engineers, project managers and technical specialists, you will gain exposure to the full project lifecycle from feasibility and optioneering through design, assurance and construction support, while developing the commercial, technical and leadership skills required to progress into a Project Engineering Manager role, by delivering best value outcomes to our clients.

We are looking for a Senior Project Engineer who is enthusiastic about combining technical engineering with project delivery and client management. This role provides the opportunity to build a career on real infrastructure projects with long-term societal and environmental value, while developing both technical engineering expertise and the project management capability required to lead increasingly complex projects.

This hybrid role is nominally based at either our Costain Manchester or London Office with an expectation of office-based working for a minimum of two days per week - our dynamic working policy does allow all employees to discuss and agree flexibility to where, when and how they work based on individual circumstances and subject to role, client, business and team requirements. Short-term/notice travel to company, supplier or client offices or sites for business purposes may be required.

Responsibilities

• Support the planning and delivery of best value engineering design projects from feasibility through to detailed design and construction.
• Work collaboratively in establishing project scopes, programmes, budgets, deliverables and resource requirements.
• Manage change control, cost management and management of project deliverables.
• Develop a sound understanding of engineering design principles, and compliance within the regulated water sector.
• Develop an understanding of constructability, operability, maintainability and whole-life cost considerations.
• Build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders whilst clearly managing expectations.
• Develop an understanding of project budgets, resource requirements, forecasting and typical commercial performance metrics.
• Promote a positive health, safety and environmental culture across project activities using relevant engineering standards and specifications with an added focus on sustainability, the environment and whole-life value of engineering decisions.

Knowledge Skills and Experience

• A keen interest and practical post-graduate work experience in the UK water and infrastructure sectors.
• Passion for Costain's Net Zero targets.
• Competence with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Mobility to work on various projects throughout the UK.
• Relevant UK experience within engineering, infrastructure or construction environments will also be considered positively.

Qualifications

• A Masters Degree in an engineering or environmental science discipline with a background in project management.

Professional Development

We are committed to developing the next generation of engineering and project management professionals. The successful candidate will be working towards relevant professional qualifications and certifications, such as:

• Engineering Council professional registration towards IEng or CEng, in association with relevant professional institution.
• Society for the Environment professional registration towards CEnv, in association with relevant professional institution.
• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ) or equivalent project management training.
• Development in project controls, risk management and commercial management.
• Water-industry technical and regulatory training.
• Internal technical and project management training.

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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