Costain Group
Trainee Project Controls Engineer
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Trainee Project Controls Engineer
Position: Trainee Project Controls Engineer
Location: Hitchin
Framework: Cadent Framework
Join our successful team on the Cadent Framework based in Hitchin.
About the Programme
The programme will focus on helping you to grow your personal and leadership skills, alongside business and, of course, the technical skills you will learn day-to-day on the job. Our line managers are fully supportive of the trainees and will be involved in helping you along the way.
About Us
At Costain, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If you’re passionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our team, we’d love to hear from you—even if you don’t tick every box. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need.
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Responsibilities
- Assisting in the development of scope and Work Breakdown Structures
- Establishment, management, and reporting through Costain project controls systems
- Prepare project reports including financial, resourcing, and schedule analysis
- Generating and maintaining schedules in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project
- Assisting in the development of project proposal estimates
- Potential travel opportunities to work on interstate/international projects
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree (min 2:1 or equivalent) in Project Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or Civil Engineering is preferred
- Be passionate about your field
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
- High attention to detail
- Passion for net-zero targets
- Ability to work in a team of diverse individuals to meet common objectives
- Good organisation skills; ability to manage multiple tasks and willingness to ask for help when needed
- IT proficient
- A willingness to learn with appropriate instruction
- Excel at building and maintaining positive relationships
- The ability to thrive in pressured situations
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Desirable
- Full UK driving licence preferred
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.
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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.
Application Process
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at the application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview.
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