Costain Group PLC
Senior Engineer (Highways & Transportation)
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Senior Engineer (Highways & Transportation)
Job Description
This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Senior Engineer (Highways & Transportation) to join a growing team of over 130 Civil & Structural Engineers and Designers. Our department manages a diverse range of projects, from Concept Studies to Detailed Design, including road safety engineering, which offers a variety of interesting work and clients.
The Industries We Work Within Include
Roads Water Transportation Energy Nuclear Defence
This role presents a unique chance to engage in meaningful projects across multiple sectors.
Working in a multi-disciplinary team, the focus is on delivering infrastructure projects.
Responsibilities Include
Providing civil and structural (highways) advice, analysis, calculations, reports, and specifications. Leading small projects and sub-tasks from a technical perspective. Effectively communicating designs to BIM teams, other disciplines, construction personnel, and stakeholders.
This hybrid role is based out of the Manchester office, with occasional site visits, design reviews, and client meetings primarily within the Northwest region, though projects may extend nationwide.
Additionally, there is an emphasis on supporting and guiding junior team members, as well as challenging and delivering value engineering solutions. Confidence and authority in client interactions are essential.
Responsibilities
As a client facing Senior Engineer, your responsibilities could involve:
Feeding into highways discipline engineering technical input for projects and/or proposals; including design engineering, preparation, and some reviewing of works documentation/ gap analysis. Managing smaller scale deliverables for Clients (internal and external) Organising and assisting with junior staff, including assisting allocating work and ensuring delivery against planned timescales Mentoring and developing graduates and less experienced engineers Production of high-quality C&S engineering deliverables to schedule, budget and client satisfaction Work to applicable national and international codes of practice, legislation and company/client standards and procedures are complied with Work to relevant codes, standards and procedures, and maintain and develop awareness of current relevant codes and standards Implement company, and where applicable client/ project policies and procedures Communicate effectively with other disciplines to ensure that interfaces are clearly defined and correctly designed Communicate appropriately with other departments, project personnel, vendors and clients Production and development of highway specifications Optioneering assessments, defining scopes of work, supporting estimates and business development.
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More Specific Tasks Could Include
Defining client requirements Assisting with RRRAP assessments Assisting with Traffic Management design and approvals Design of new carriageway/footways, assessment of existing infrastructure, checking and approving C&S documentation from others Supporting the PM/Project Lead in identifying change, progress reporting, tracking of issues, risks and resolutions
Essentials
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Significant experience in highways & infrastructure at all stages of the project lifecycle. Very good knowledge of design working practices and installation requirements of the discipline across a range of industries. Very good knowledge of UK legislation and standards Awareness of risk identification, quantification, management and of HSE requirements Client facing liaison and interaction Proven experience with multi clients Eligibility for Security Clearance - British National or 5 years UK residency.
Desirable
Experience with new and historic highways, optioneering assessments, defining scopes of work, supporting estimates and business development. Experience in leading small teams and supporting more junior engineers. Project Management experience Requirements Management experience Traffic Regulation Order experience
Essential
QUALIFICATIONS
Degree in Civil Engineering, or similar Minimum IEng Civil, or substantial experience to compensate. Membership of Professional Industry Body Full driving licence
Desirable
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About Us
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.
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