MEICA Delivery Engineer

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

12/13/2024

Job Description

Costain have won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have been appointed by United Utilities as one of 7 partners to deliver £5.5bn of projects in the Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8) between 2025 – 2030, and AMP 9 (2030 – 2035). Our scope is to provide project management, design, construction and commissioning services on design and build schemes throughout the North West and Cumbria region. Projects vary in value from £10m - c£600m covering both infrastructure and non-infrastructure assets on water and wastewater sites with our wider Enterprise partners.

We are looking for a MEICA Delivery Engineer to support the delivery of these projects supporting from outline design through to commissioning and handover. Working across the project lifecycle there will be a mix of office, remote and site-based demand on your time.

You will be working within the wider construction delivery team engaging with designers to challenge and support efficient design development, procurement and managing subcontractor delivery and commissioning both at their locations through manufacture, and on-site during installation and commissioning. Throughout this you will be supporting the development of programmes and budgets and once in delivery, managing works aligned to these whilst also proactively monitoring safe and high quality delivery.

Responsibilities

• Proactively promote health, safety and wellbeing in every aspect of design and delivery.
• Manage MEICA packages, design and installation and all necessary coordination.
• Support relevant HAZOP/HAZCON and wider project meetings as required.
• Collaborate with the wider engineering team to ensure a robust and realistic sequence of construction, programme and budget, of the whole project. You will support the development of MEICA aspects of this and the interfaces with wider delivery.
• Co-ordinate with the pre-construction, delivery and wider teams to develop compliant, safe, considered solutions and address technical challenges.
• Support and mentor your team and their continued development.
• Champion high quality delivery from the outset of design; developing processes, systems and initiatives to drive a high quality right first time culture through the team.
• Ensure good working relationships are established with the Enterprise partners and site operating teams, our supply chain partners and wider stakeholders.
• Provide accurate and timely project performance reports, ensuring projects are on track and contract requirements are met; sharing and celebrating success and developing improvement plans and implementing mitigation strategies as required.
• Collaborate with the wider Costain framework team (inc supply chain) to support efficient and effective delivery and the wider Enterprise partners to drive continuous improvement
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience of delivering MEICA packages across the project lifecycle in a collaborative delivery environment
• Ability to engage and build strong relationships with stakeholders and your own team, motivating, influencing and striving for mutual success
• Excellent knowledge of relevant regulations including but not limited to Construction Design & Management Regulations and the Costain Way Requirements in respect of temporary works, lifting, commissioning and handover
• Able to understand relevant engineering technical standards and apply and explain these to the wider team simply and effectively
• Water sector experience (preferred)
• Package management experience and contract awareness to effectively manage your subcontractors.
• Solution focussed and passionate about improving performance in the sector
• A positive and proactive attitude.
• Experience supporting multi-disciplinary teams over multiple locations
• Experience of working with both construction and design teams.
• A personal drive for continued professional development for yourself and your teams
• Relevant engineering or project management qualification
• CSCS
• Driving licence.
  
  

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.