Costain Group
Site Engineer
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Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) Project
The Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) project currently involves the planning, design and construction of circa 320km of new strategic, large diameter, clean water interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure across Anglian Water’s region. The SPA Alliance is also taking on responsibility for the future interconnector pipelines, a further 260km of strategic interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure.
This role is site based around North Norfolk.
Reporting to the site management team this site-based role will require you to take ownership of the engineering works on site, contributing to planning the works and ensuring the works are completed in a timely and cost effective manner.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Day to day site quality assurance, including surveying, setting out duties, quality checks and approvals.
- Implement policies, procedures and statutory legal regulations paying specific attention to HSE legislation.
- Supporting the Site Manager to liaise with the Engineering and Integration team to resolve engineering conflicts and ensure work is carried out in line with specifications, digital models and drawings.
- Assisting the site management teams with all aspects of health, safety, and environmental management, liaising with commercial, procurement and planning teams and supply chain management.
- Supporting the Site Manager in material take off’s, stock control etc. and liaising with procurement team to ensure orders are not exceeded without authority.
- Highlight any areas of concern before they become an issue.
- Ensure programme, quality and budget assurances are met.
- Always explore alternatives to identify better ways of delivering the project.
- Look to minimise waste by ordering the required materials to optimise project performance.
- Generate temporary works design briefs to a standard accepted by the Temporary Works Coordinator.
- Review designs and raise technical queries to the design teams.
- Generate, review and submit red-line drawings for works packages to the design teams.
- Update the project 4 week lookahead programme weekly for your section. Manage and coordinate any clashes with other site works.
- Record progress and compare it to planned production for your section. Communicate this progress with relevant stakeholders.
- Identify delays and propose potential mitigation measures.
- Produce plans for your works section considering sequences, constraints and interfaces and communicate them with relevant stakeholders.
- Ensure you and the site team keep an accurate and detailed site records for all works. Communicate any change to the site management.
- Ensure that you raise requisitions for plant and materials in a timely and accurate manner.
- Understand the design specifications and drawings for your section.
- Produce Inspection and Test Plans for your works and ensure effective implementation.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement in Health & Safety (H&S), ensuring consistent H&S standards are maintained.
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KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Construction industry experience
- Experience of setting out and recording ‘as builts’
- Experience of maintaining records
- Understanding of engineering principles and construction techniques
- Previous water industry experience
- Experience of working on large complex sites
- Health and safety focused with an ability to spot hazards and challenge behaviours on site
- Conscientious with attention to detail
- Collaborative and able to work with others
- Ability to read and interpret drawings and specifications
- Good understanding of engineering principles and construction techniques
- Able to complete detailed site records of activities completed on site inclusive of quantities
- Working with the highest degree of integrity, we want SPA employees to take ownership and accountability for their outputs and be driven to continuously improve how they work. SPA employees should act with the customer’s best interest at heart, be clear and transparent communicators and be passionate about operating in an ethical fashion.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Understanding of engineering principles and construction techniques
- Site Supervisors Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS)
- Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) Supervisors Card
- EUSR National Water Hygiene Standards ‘Blue Card’
- First Aid at Work
- New Roads and Street Works Act (NRSWA) Supervisors
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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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