Costain is looking to strengthen their Engineering team with an EICA Design Engineer for our CMDP joint venture framework.
About The Project
CMDP, a Joint Venture between Costain and MWHT, have secured a further 5 years of work with Southern Water for their AMP7 programme of works (2020 to 2025).
Working predominantly in the East of Southern Water’s region the scale of the works is likely to be greater than £350m and will comprise of multiple sites across Kent and Sussex on both clean and dirty water sites.
Based at the Falmer (Brighton) office
Key Responsibilities
• Provide design solutions that meet all of the requirements the Sub-Programme Mandates
• Produce design documents which are cost effective, meet the requirements of the specification and which can be purchased, installed and commissioned effectively
• Ensure that standard designs and design practices are utilised wherever possible
• Produce outline electrical, instrumentation and control design on contracts
• Carryout surveys at site visits
• Attend Factory Acceptance Tests at suppliers premises and produce reports
• Ensure designs produced and those of sub-contractors meet the requirements of the specification
• Ensure designs are within budget and produce the best overall outcome for the business
About You
• Electrical Engineering Degree, HND/BTEC
• Experience in EICA design in water / process industry
• Working knowledge of industrial electrical distribution systems including 11kV
• Knowledge of Electricity at Work Regulations
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
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