Principal Temporary Works Engineer (Engineering and Design)
England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 1 week ago
Job Description
Due to sustained and increased secured demand across multiple clients and projects (CMDP, Thames Water, UU, Trawsfynydd, Heathrow, M60 Simister Island). We are expanding our engineering team for UK projects and are seeking a Principal Engineer with significant temporary works experience on complex delivery projects.
As a client-facing Principal Engineer, you will manage the delivery of engineering design on major projects throughout various stages of the project life cycle, ensuring adherence to project schedules, budgets, safety, and quality requirements.
This role is home-based, but you will be expected to attend the Costain Offices, with an expectation of working in the office at least one day per week (London, Manchester, Maidenhead or Worle). Our informal dynamic working policy allows all employees to discuss and agree on flexibility regarding where, when, and how they work, based on individual preferences and the requirements of the role, client, business, and team. Short-term travel to company, supplier, or client offices or sites for business purposes may be required.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
As a Principal Engineer you will be a member of a Temporary Works Engineering and Design Team supervising and carrying out civil and structural engineering designs for a variety of projects and proposals, that include: -
Principal Accountabilities
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential
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 appreciate 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 .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
Due to sustained and increased secured demand across multiple clients and projects (CMDP, Thames Water, UU, Trawsfynydd, Heathrow, M60 Simister Island). We are expanding our engineering team for UK projects and are seeking a Principal Engineer with significant temporary works experience on complex delivery projects.
As a client-facing Principal Engineer, you will manage the delivery of engineering design on major projects throughout various stages of the project life cycle, ensuring adherence to project schedules, budgets, safety, and quality requirements.
This role is home-based, but you will be expected to attend the Costain Offices, with an expectation of working in the office at least one day per week (London, Manchester, Maidenhead or Worle). Our informal dynamic working policy allows all employees to discuss and agree on flexibility regarding where, when, and how they work, based on individual preferences and the requirements of the role, client, business, and team. Short-term travel to company, supplier, or client offices or sites for business purposes may be required.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
As a Principal Engineer you will be a member of a Temporary Works Engineering and Design Team supervising and carrying out civil and structural engineering designs for a variety of projects and proposals, that include: -
- Working platforms
- Ground shoring /retaining walls / slope stability
- Deep and shallow foundations
- Demolition
- Concrete structures
- Steel structures
- Hoarding and fencing
- Construction Methodology / buildability assessments
- Formwork/falsework
- Scaffolding
Principal Accountabilities
- Preparation of design documentation as requested by Lead Engineers.
- Be responsible for the supervision, preparation, checking and approval of design work in accordance with Company Procedures.
- Ensure that the project discipline engineering activities are executed within budget and schedule, while maintaining technical integrity.
- Ensure work is carried out in accordance with relevant codes, standards and procedures.
- Maintain and develop current awareness of relevant codes and standards.
- Mentoring/coaching and the development of junior members of the team
- Implement company, and where applicable, client/project policies and procedures.
- Remain abreast of legislative requirements.
- Make short term visits to sites and offices in the UK and overseas, to support project and proposal’s needs, for Client liaison, Statutory Undertakers, Building Control, site surveys, third party engineering and design supervision, construction supervision, etc.
- Be fully aware of legal and organisational responsibilities regarding Health, Safety and Environmental issues with respect to Employees, Contractors, Clients and third parties, ensuring that activities are managed in accordance with Company Policy and Client requirements.
- Note: - In the above descriptions the term ‘design’ is used in its broadest sense and covers design calculations, specifications, equipment selection, material selection, contract documentation and enquiry requisition / bid review / purchase requisition for subcontracted construction and fabrication work, and approval of subcontractors and suppliers’ documentatio n.
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- Significant experience in Temporary works design/checking.
- Understanding of site construction methods
- 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.
- Collaborative, innovative and agile.
- Experienced customer facing capability with an ability to develop and influence relationships
- Strong interpersonal skills and an effective communicator (written & verbal)
- Proven engineering and business system/software skills
- Civils, Structures and Infrastructure knowledge
Essential
- Chartered Engineer and Membership of a professional engineering institution
- Honours Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering related subject.
- Chartered Engineer and Membership of a professional engineering institution
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 appreciate 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 .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
