Front End Study Manager

Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

1/7/2025

Job Description

In this role, the Study Manager will lead multi-disciplinary teams across one or more studies, with clients ranging from major energy companies to specialist project developers.

The Study Manager will in most cases provide the main interface with the client’s project team, and will work collaboratively to achieve desired outcomes, building strong relationships and growing workstreams and new opportunities.

Costain’s Energy team delivers optimised solutions to customers in the energy production, energy transition and related industries, including oil & gas production, energy storage, carbon capture, hydrogen production and fuel switching, and emissions reduction. The team is focused on finding the best solutions in the earliest phases of projects and, where necessary, to develop technologies required for delivery of these solutions. The team includes specialists in process, mechanical, safety and environmental design, working closely with the wider engineering teams in Costain and collaboratively with customers and partners.

This roles will be based in our Aberdeen office 3 days a week.

Responsibilities

• To manage delivery of studies in the early phases of project development, with accountability for the quality, budget and schedule.
• To be the primary interface with clients in study delivery and to work collaboratively to develop a full understanding of the project objectives, constraints, options and decision making processes.
• To manage the necessary multi-disciplinary technical and commercial inputs to allow robust study recommendations and decision making, with an understanding of technical and commercial options; health, safety and environmental aspects; cost and schedule impacts and project risk and opportunity.
• To ensure client needs are met and manage any emerging changes to the basis, scope of work, time frames or budgets.
• To assist our clients in the process and energy industries in development of overall strategies to deliver and accelerate the energy transition, supported by innovation and appropriate technologies.
• To identify resource requirements and support in resource planning across a portfolio of projects as appropriate.
• To work with project controls team to provide reporting on project performance both internally and to client.
• To work with cost estimating function to develop estimates of total installed cost, understand level of uncertainty and identify project risks and opportunities
• To prepare and check key study deliverables, and ensure high levels of quality.
• To support line managers in managing performance and development of engineers and consultants in the team.
• To develop relationships with customers, supply chain and other third parties, and represent Costain in discussions and meetings on proposals, studies and projects.
• To support Business Development in winning repeat business with existing clients and identifying and winning new business from new clients
• To ensure personal and project compliance with current company policy, relevant legislation and company and customer’s requirements for Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental matters and work in such a manner not to cause personal harm or injury to fellow workers, customer and subcontractor employees or the environment.
• The role can be based in either Costain’s Manchester Office or the Aberdeen Office and may require travel to company, supplier or customer offices or sites for business purposes. The company operates a dynamic working policy which offers the opportunity to work by agreement with the individual considering the needs of the project, client and business.
  
  

Qualifications

• First degree in a relevant engineering discipline, preferably in Chemical Engineering, but other discipline degrees will be considered along with the relevant experience
• Chartered Engineer preferred and the candidate should have more than 10 years’ experience including significant experience of UK energy infrastructure, and facilities development, preferably in an engineering consultancy or contracting environment.
• Deep knowledge and experience of a range of process technologies and equipment appropriate to offshore & onshore oil & gas production and processing, CO 2 capture, hydrogen production, fuel switching, electrification, etc.
• Experience across full project lifecycle – concept, FEED and EPC is preferred.
• Extensive experience in delivering feasibility studies, selecting technologies, developing conceptual design and evaluating options is essential.
• Energy industry experience in UK regulatory environment
• Wide knowledge of processes and technologies employed in energy production, processing and in decarbonisation of industry and power generation
• Ability to frame problems, identify diverse options, and prepare robust evaluations to screen and select options, understanding and accounting for appropriate selection criteria
• Ability to guide team in developing solutions and preparing deliverables
  
  

About Us

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.