Technical Manager - Water (Engineering and Design)

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

12/13/2024

Job Description

The detail design (water) delivery team is based in Costain’s Aviator Way offices in Manchester. The team provides multi-discipline engineering services to our water sector providing a variety of sustainable and efficient solutions. Our water team are a small and growing specialised team within Costain’s overall and much larger Engineering services team covering multiple sectors including Energy, Road, Rail and Defence. Our water team utilises industry leading software packages to deliver cost effective, BIM compliant, sustainable, and innovative solutions to our water utility clients.

Reporting to our Head of Engineering as Technical Manager you will be leading our water team’s Engineering and Design effort and provide technical assurance across a range of clean and wastewater schemes covering the nation’s major water utility providers. Costain is proud to be a leading technical engineering solutions provider to the UK’s water industry. Our engineering services support to the water sector includes the early contractor involvement phases, concept studies, outline design, detail design, through to construction and commissioning. This is an exciting and rewarding position to become part of Costain’s innovative leading-edge team delivering high value efficient solutions to our water clients.

Responsibilities

• To provide technical assurance across teams of design mangers and discipline design engineers in the development of water technical solutions from initial need statement through optioneering, solution development, value engineering, detail design and construction support.
• Ensure affordable design solutions are developed within project budget and solution risk is appropriately managed and communicated throughout the solution development process.
• Establish collaborative working relationships with the client, design teams, construction staff and supply chain representatives to promote buildability and supply chain efficiency in design outputs.
• Ensure sustainable design solutions are completed in accordance with CDM Regulations.
• Ensure design solutions meet all the requirements of the programme’s systems and governance procedures.
• Ensure your own continuous professional development by participating in external networking/conferences/associations/groups, to stay current on industry changes and innovations.
• Maintain a positive and solution-oriented approach to work, providing open and honest feedback.
• Undertake such other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required, and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this role.
• In all internal and external contact, present a professional and positive image of Costain as well as maintaining mutually constructive, positive, and beneficial relationships.
• Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality.
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience of technical project delivery in a design-build environment
• Experience in the Water Treatment Industry
• Experience in leading and managing multi-disciplinary design teams
• Must be delivery-driven with the ability to set targets, manage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver to time, cost and quality objectives
• Technical and management skills
• Able to identify and manage project/programme risk
• Able to identify and manage changes to project scope
• Degree in Engineering.
• Chartered Engineer.
  
  

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.