About the project

Are you highly motivated with excellent communication skills? We have an exciting and challenging role where you will be the Lead Engineer working on a client facing projects. You will be involved in concept studies through to detailed design, providing a variety of interesting work. Industries can range across Water, Transport and Energy including Green Energy, Nuclear and Oil and Gas

As our client facing Principal Engineer, your responsibilities could involve:

• Responsibility for instrument discipline technical input for projects and/or proposals; including preparation, checking and/or approval of engineering documentation

• Organising, supporting and mentoring your team, allocating work and ensuring delivery against plan

• Preparing scopes of work and delivering high-quality control and instrumentation (C&I) engineering tasks to schedule, budget and client satisfaction, working with our supply chain

• Ensuring all applicable national and international codes of practice, legislation and company/client standards and procedures are complied with

About you

• You will be Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant engineering discipline (e.g. Electronic / Electrical / Control Engineering)

• Chartered or Incorporated engineer status with a relevant professional body or evidence of being close to gaining these professional titles

• You will have good working knowledge of design practices and installation requirements of the discipline across a range of industries with extensive UK legislation and standards

• Competence in the specification and design of Safety Instrumented systems in line with IEC 61511 and IEC 61508 and installation of instrumentation in process plants involving potentially explosive areas

• Experience in the requirements for CE marking of plant and equipment, including Atex, PED, Low Voltage Directive, Machinery Directive and EMC Compliance

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.

Your application

Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: careers@costain.com

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:

https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/

Right to Work & Security Checks

Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we’ll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

Closing date

Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign