Senior Project Engineer

Plymouth, England, United Kingdom

12/13/2024

Job Description

The Major Infrastructure Projects directorate provides major new or upgraded dock, berth and building infrastructure projects to provide facilities for the ship and submarine sustainment programmes. As Senior Project Engineer you'll work with multi-discipline infrastructure system designs to provide an overall sustainment capability mainly for dry dock systems.

Using your experience in facility upgrade or construction projects you will manage the delivery of heavy civils infrastructure designs and work with users and other stakeholders to ensure that the integrated facility provides the sustainment capability. You will use your project management expertise to ensure the end product meets the technical and operational requirements of the facility.

This is an exciting opportunity to progress your career and assist in the delivery of Defence design and safety engineering projects, with opportunities for further development and progression within the Company.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the requirements of conventional Health & Safety Legislation are met by compliance with Project procedures.
• To ensure a plan of key activities and milestones is in place, which consistently represents the programme to be achieved for the package.
• Support the Project Manager / Package Manager in development, monitoring of progress
• To ensure that effective cost control and monitoring is planned and implemented.
• To provide regular reports on progress, for inclusion in the project monthly report
• To ensure that the work package construction proceeds in accordance with the Project programme whilst meeting the requirements of the Project quality goals and safety case requirements
• To identify and manage specifically those areas that represent significant risk to the work package through proactive planning, i.e. interface management.
  
  

Qualifications

• HND (or equivalent) in engineering / project / construction management or a related field;
  
  

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.