About the role

Principal Engineer managing engineering design on major UK projects with temporary works experience on complex delivery. Leading project life-cycle activities including schedules, budgets, and quality compliance.

Responsibilities

Manage the delivery of engineering design on major projects throughout various stages of the project life cycle, ensuring adherence to project schedules, budgets, safety, and quality requirements.
Produce a robust and safe design output
Responsible for coordination with the client and construction teams, leading meetings, interfaces and similar.
Collaborate and ensure learning is shared and celebrate safety performance
Ensure that the project discipline engineering activities are executed within budget and schedule, while maintaining technical integrity.
Ensure work is carried out in accordance with relevant codes, standards and procedures
Mentoring/coaching and the development of junior members of the team.
Make short term visits to sites and offices in the UK and overseas, to support project and proposal’s needs, for Client liaison, Statutory Undertakers, Building Control, site surveys, third party engineering and design supervision, construction supervision, etc.

Chartered Engineer and Membership of a professional engineering institution
Honours Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering related subject.
Able to achieve SC clearance
Hold professional qualifications such as Chartership or Incorporated Status
Educational experience relevant to their engineering discipline, ideally degree qualified to a 2:1 or better
Secondary level education, such as A levels, BTEC, T levels etc
Safety passport or similar
Significant experience in Temporary works design/checking.
Understanding of site construction methods
Thorough knowledge of the major project delivery process from work winning to project handover.
Knowledge and understanding of UK technical and regulatory standards and global best practice.
Strong process safety, quality and environmental leadership focus.
Significant knowledge and understanding of Project Controls, including Schedule, Cost, Risk and Change Management.
Well-established customer facing capability with an ability to develop and influence relationships
Mobility to work on various projects throughout the UK
Have site or construction experience

Costain offers an informal dynamic working policy that allows all employees to discuss and agree on flexibility regarding where, when, and how they work, based on individual preferences and the requirements of the role, client, business, and team.
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that discloses they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
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