Costain Group
Expression of Interest - Senior Hydraulic Engineer (Water)
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Role Overview
As we continue to increase our presence across the water sector, partnering with UK water companies to deliver their strategic capital delivery programmes for their AMP8 investment cycles, we have some exciting opportunities in our future pipeline for a Senior Hydraulic Engineer to join our growing Engineering & Design Services team supporting our Frameworks.
This will be a hybrid role working within our water sector team, providing specialist hydraulic support on our water projects including thermofluids, network flows, and hydraulic modelling.
Our design office is in Manchester, but if you prefer and depending on your location, you can work from our London office, with typical office attendance up to 3 days and the option for remote working. Occasional visits to other offices and sites are expected. #LI-MR1
Responsibilities
- Working within our water sector team, providing specialist hydraulic support on our water projects including thermofluids, network flows, and hydraulic modelling.
- Independently produce and manage production of engineering deliverables such as calculations, drawings, specifications, and reports for civils infrastructure with a strong focus on constructability.
- Support the designs, assessment, optimisation, and analysis for water and wastewater processes, including analysis techniques to be used within computational fluid dynamics analysis for water/wastewater processes.
- Responsible for modelling and analysis outputs, providing effective design solutions looking at short, medium, and longer-term impacts.
- Interfacing closely with other disciplines and construction operations.
- Delivering to budget and ensuring changes are compensated for.
- Challenging and delivering value engineering solutions.
- Communicating confidently and authoritatively with clients.
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Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essentials
- Experience in hydraulics, surge analysis, and design for water and wastewater transmission, treatment, and collection/distribution systems from feasibility through to detailed design, construction, and commissioning support.
- Be assertive, collaborative, and curious, paying attention to relevant detail.
- Be able to apply critical thinking to problem-solving.
- Experience in thermofluids, network flows, and hydraulic modelling.
- Experience with using HADES for steady-state hydraulics.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office (in Windows 10/11, particularly Excel & Word).
- Some understanding of CFD, physical modelling, and other relevant technical disciplines such as Civil and MEICA.
- Proven communication skills including delivering presentations to both internal and external senior business leaders and clients.
- Hold a full UK driving license.
- Flexible and innovative outlook/approach.
- Safety-focused, be able to assess and articulate risks so ensuring safety by design.
- Have UK project experience with a working knowledge of current UK regulations and design codes for H&S, environmental, and engineering aspects.
Desirable
- Mobility to work on various projects throughout the UK.
- Have site or construction experience.
- Experience from multiple sectors/industries.
- Be able to work independently.
- Have line management/mentoring experience.
Qualifications
Essential
- A degree or equivalent in a relevant engineering subject.
- Membership or working towards membership of a relevant professional chartered institute.
- CSCS card holder.
- Right to work in the UK.
Desirable
- Additional technically focused qualifications/training.
About Costain
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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