Senior Project Engineer (Water)

Senior Project Engineer sought for the Water division of CEL, our multi-disciplinary team (including Process, Civil/Structural, Geotechnical, Mechanical, Electrical ICA and Hydraulics) delivering engineering designs for a number of Water Authorities across England through its AMP8 programme with a pipeline of work planned across the upcoming AMP9 investment plan.

• Support the planning and delivery of best value engineering design projects from feasibility through to detailed design and construction.
• Work collaboratively in establishing project scopes, programmes, budgets, deliverables and resource requirements.
• Manage change control, cost management and management of project deliverables.
• Develop a sound understanding of engineering design principles, and compliance within the regulated water sector.
• Develop an understanding of constructability, operability, maintainability and whole-life cost considerations.
• Build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders whilst clearly managing expectation.
• Develop an understanding of project budgets, resource requirements, forecasting and typical commercial performance metrics.
• Promote a positive health, safety and environmental culture across project activities using relevant engineering standards and specifications with an added focus on sustainability, the environment and whole-life value of engineering decisions.

• A keen interest and practical post graduate work experience in the UK water and infrastructure sectors.
• Passion for Costain's Net Zero targets
• Competence with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Mobility to work on various projects over throughout the UK
• Relevant UK experience within engineering, infrastructure or construction environments will also be considered positively.

We are committed to developing the next generation of engineering and project management professionals.

The successful candidate will be working towards relevant professional qualifications and certifications, such as:

• Engineering Council professional registration towards IEng or CEng, in association with relevant professional institution.
• Society for the Environment professional registration towards CEnv, in association with relevant professional institution
• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ) or equivalent project management training.
• Development in project controls, risk management and commercial management.
• Water-industry technical and regulatory training.
• Internal technical and project management training.