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Expression of Interest - Senior Hydraulic Engineer (Water)

Hybrid in Manchester·Added 2 months ago (last checked 8 Oct)

Costain

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Overview

Job details

  • Hybrid

    Office and home days — the ad has the split.

Requirements

  • Be near Manchester for hybrid days

    No relocation package mentioned.

Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • 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.

Nice to have

  • 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
  • Additional technically focused qualifications / training

Education & certifications

  • 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.

The role

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.

What you'll do

  • 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.

About Costain

Industry
Construction & Engineering
Founded
1865
Employees
1,000–5,000
Headquarters
London, UK
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