Costain Group PLC
Senior / Principal EICA Engineer - Water
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Job Description
We are seeking a Senior/Principal Electrical, Instrumentation, Control, and Automation (EICA) Engineer to join our Engineering Services team on a full-time basis. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in E, C & I on water projects, with the capability to lead a small team, delegate tasks, and manage multiple projects effectively.
Key Details Include
- Local candidates to NW Region preferred, with the ability to spend 2-3 days per week in the Manchester office.
- Site visits required on a monthly or bi-monthly basis for CMDP (Southern Water South Coast).
- Responsibilities will involve engineering and design work with customers, providing engineering support through ECI and FEED phases, and guiding projects through to detailed design and construction.
Currently, we are experiencing a surge in our engineering and design workload in the water sector to support AMP8 for clients including United Utilities, Severn Trent Water, Southern Water, Thames Water, and Northumbrian Water.
As an experienced Senior/Principal EICA Engineer, you will provide technical expertise in Electrical, Instrumentation, Control, and Automation (EICA), contributing to the entire project life cycle from feasibility and conceptual design to commissioning support and handover. This role requires a motivated and dynamic engineer with recent experience in documentation approvals and team management. You will also be responsible for liaising and coordinating with clients, supply chain partners, contractors, and third parties as necessary.
Responsibilities
Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Managing a small team of engineers and designers to deliver multiple projects from a technical perspective
- Approval of Electrical, Control and Instrumentation project deliverables
- Ideally within commutable distance and able to spend 2-3 days per week in the Manchester office.
- Site visits (1 per month or bi-monthly) required on South Coast.
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Further Responsibilities May Include
- Development of affordable solutions to meet EA regulatory compliance
- Collaborating with sub-contractors on intrusive site surveys to define required modifications and power requirement/upgrades
- Completing Electrical Load Schedules and identifying telemetry requirements
- Development of Best Practice and achieving our Net Zero sustainability target
- Ensuring strict compliance with all applicable national and international codes of practice, legislation and company/client standards and procedures. Specifically WIMES
- Preparing equipment and materials requisitions for a range of electrical, electronic and instrumentation and Control equipment
- Preparing sub-contractor installation scopes of work
- Reviewing supplier and sub-contractor quotations and completing technical bid assessments
Qualifications
- Degree in relevant engineering discipline (e.g. Electronic / Electrical / Control Engineering) Apprenticeships may be considered
- Chartered or Incorporated engineer status with a relevant professional body or evidence of working towards gaining these professional titles
- Good knowledge of design working practices and installation requirements of the discipline within the water sector
- Significant and proven engineering experience in the Water sectors with recent experience approved documentation for construction or engineering
- Awareness of risk identification, quantification, management and of HSE requirements
- Knowledge of UK legislation and standards
- Knowledge in the requirements for installation of equipment in process plants involving potentially explosive areas
- Experience in the requirements for CE/UKCA marking of plant and equipment, including ATEX, PED, Low Voltage Directive, Machinery Directive and EMC Compliance
- Highly motivated and dynamic.
- Good communication skills and confident engaging with colleagues and relevant stakeholders
- Works with safety and risk management at the forefront of their minds
- Customer focussed
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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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