Project Engineering Manager (Civil & Structural - Rail) in London

Expanding on successful delivery in rail, Costain is working with various UK rail clients to deliver their strategic delivery programmes and engineering services. We have an opportunity for a Project Engineering Manager (Civil & Structural) to join our Constructability Team within our growing Engineering Design Services Capability, supporting secured frameworks, projects and consultancy commissions for Network Rail, HS2, Northern Powerhouse Rail, TfL and East West Rail.

The Project Engineering Discipline provides multi-discipline engineering team leadership and coordination across the engineering project lifecycle for Costain’s Transportation, Energy, Water, Nuclear and Defence sectors. We are growing our engineering team to serve growing demand for UK projects in the Rail Sector. We are keen to hear from candidates with significant experience of designing and acting in a Project Engineering Manager role in civil & structural on infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects and throughout the entire project lifecycle: from needs and solution identification, optioneering, outline design and detailed design in a design and build environment.

Currently, we have a surge in engineering and design workload in the rail sector to support Mechanical, Electrical and HV packages for HS2 and multi-disciplinary design services for Network Rail. As a client facing (both internal and external) Project Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for managing the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering design on complex projects through the various stages of the project life cycle to meet the project schedule, budget, safety, environmental and quality requirements, including defining & agreeing the requirements with clients.

This hybrid role will require time spent in both the Costain London office and London centric projects with regular travel to the Costain Manchester office to coordinate with the engineering disciplines. There is 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• To manage the delivery of multi-discipline engineering design on projects through the various stages of the project lifecycle ensuring they are safe-by-design, sustainable, digitally enabled, cost-effective, compliant, technically sound and meet commercial delivery targets.
• Ensuring that Engineering resource requirements are identified and effectively utilised to allow execution of projects in accordance with the project requirements and targeting for maximum productivity and efficiency.
• Ensuring all Engineers fully understand the detailed scope, basis of design, budget and programme requirements of the project.
• Co-ordination of Engineering and Design interfaces between Costain and other project partners / supply chain partners.
• Management of contractual communications, supporting progress meetings, risk reduction meetings, cost reports, coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams and running / closing out contract actions.
• Regularly reporting to senior operational management on the performance of the engineering delivery for the project.
• Providing a commercial focus with a high level of challenge on project scope and protecting against uncontrolled scope creep.
• Ensuring effective deployment and use of company engineering delivery processes on projects including engineering design strategy; master deliverable plan, project schedule, work/cost breakdown structure; process safety management and engineering governance process.
• Ensuring that key project and programme risks are identified early, and mitigated where possible, with issues and blockers escalated immediately.
• Ensuring all services comply fully with Client & Costain governance processes, standards and obtaining necessary approvals.
• Developing productive relationships by communicating with colleagues and subordinates, developing trust and support and building teams.
• Lead by example, displaying the Company’s values and behaviours, and commitment to the highest standards of safe and ethical behaviour, to ensure safe and reliable operations and client satisfaction.
• Ensure that personal and corporate compliance with Health and Safety policy including company policy, relevant legislation, company and client’s requirements for Health, Safety and Environmental matters.
• Work collaboratively with business development, work winning and marketing functions to develop and tender new opportunities.
• Support the Discipline Managers in developing and mentoring other members of the project engineering department.
• Support the Discipline Managers in maintaining/improving project engineering corporate processes, including workflows, methods, competency, software systems and technical standards and ensuring project lessons learnt are effectively captured and embedded.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:

• Significant civil & structural experience in design and in coordinating multi-discipline teams through the various stages of the project life cycle on major contracts in the Rail Sector.
• Thorough knowledge of the major project delivery process from work winning to project handover.
• Knowledge and understanding of UK technical and regulatory standards and global best practice.
• Proven process safety, quality and environmental leadership focus.
• Significant knowledge and understanding of Project Controls, including Schedule, Cost, Risk and Change Management.
• Collaborative, innovative and agile.
• Experienced customer facing capability with an ability to develop and influence relationships.
• Proven interpersonal skills and an effective communicator (written & verbal).
• Able to work regularly from the Costain London office (40% office based).
• Mobility to travel to Costain/client offices, project sites and suppliers.
• Honours Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering related subject.