Responsibilities

• Support requirements management activities - Assist in the capture, structuring, allocation, tracing and reporting of project requirements using IBM Rational DOORS and associated digital tools.
• Support hazard and safety management activities - Contribute to the allocation of hazards, safety requirements and assurance evidence, supporting system safety workshops, reviews and records.
• Support PRAMS and technical assurance activities - Assist in the development, collation and management of evidence relating to performance, reliability, availability, maintainability and safety requirements.
• Support configuration management activities - Help maintain controlled technical information, configuration item records, baselines, change records and traceability between requirements, assets, designs and assurance evidence.
• Support interoperability and compliance activities - Assist in the identification, allocation and management of interoperability requirements, applicable standards, regulatory obligations and assurance evidence.
• Participate in and progressively lead workshops - Support systems definition, hazard allocation, requirements allocation and assurance workshops, initially through preparation and record keeping, and progressively through facilitation and technical leadership.
• Maintain accurate records and reports - Produce and maintain clear, accurate and auditable records, including action logs, allocation matrices, workshop outputs, requirements reports, configuration status information and assurance trackers.
• Engage fully with the apprenticeship and professional development pathway - Actively participate in structured learning, mentoring, professional development and project-based experience with the aim of developing toward professional registration and future technical authority responsibilities.

Essential

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• A strong interest in systems engineering, technical assurance, infrastructure, rail, digital engineering or complex engineered systems.
• High attention to detail and appreciation of the importance of accuracy, traceability and controlled information.
• Good analytical skills, with the ability to structure information logically and identify relationships between requirements, hazards, assets, interfaces and evidence.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Confidence to engage with engineers, designers, safety specialists, delivery teams and other stakeholders.
• Willingness to learn specialist tools, including IBM Rational DOORS and other requirements, configuration, assurance and reporting systems.
• Good IT capability, including Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
• Ability to work collaboratively and to build positive working relationships.
• Ability to organise work, manage actions and follow through on commitments.
• A professional attitude, with the aspiration to develop into a trusted technical authority.
• Awareness of systems engineering principles, requirements management, configuration management or safety assurance.
• Awareness of infrastructure, rail, transport, energy, defence or other complex project environments.
• Awareness of standards, assurance processes, asset information or digital engineering environments.
• Experience using structured databases, reporting tools, dashboards or engineering information systems.
• Exposure to workshops, stakeholder engagement, technical documentation or project coordination.
• Interest in professional registration through an appropriate engineering institution.

Desirable

• Awareness of systems engineering principles, requirements management, configuration management or safety assurance.
• Awareness of infrastructure, rail, transport, energy, defence or other complex project environments.
• Awareness of standards, assurance processes, asset information or digital engineering environments.
• Experience using structured databases, reporting tools, dashboards or engineering information systems.
• Exposure to workshops, stakeholder engagement, technical documentation or project coordination.
• Interest in professional registration through an appropriate engineering institution.

Essential

About you

• A degree, or expected degree, in relevant engineering, science, mathematics, technology or systems-related discipline; or equivalent apprenticeship / vocational route aligned to the role.
• Have passion for Costain's Carbon Net Zero targets.
• Detail-focused and methodical.
• Curious and willing to ask questions.
• Comfortable working with complex information.
• Able to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Organised, reliable and proactive.
• Open to feedback and committed to continuous improvement.
• Interested in developing technical judgement and professional authority over time.
• Comfortable supporting workshops and progressively taking on a more visible facilitation role.

Desirable

• Degree or modules covering systems engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, safety, reliability, data, asset management or project management.
• Membership, or willingness to pursue membership, of a relevant professional body such as INCOSE, ICE, IET, IMechE, SaRS, IfSE or equivalent.

Please note that if you are invited to interview, we will require you to produce your passport and/or right to work documentation.