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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
The Aone+ is a joint venture between Costain, Jacobs and Colas where they have been entrusted with completing a diverse range of maintenance, incident response, weather management and road engineering duties across over 4300 miles of major road network. The network include Area 12 Yorkshire and Humberside and Area 4 in Kent which commenced from June 2016 for five years and have a combined estimated value of between £140m and £165 million per year.
Please note applications for this role close on 8th April 2019.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
The Aone+ is a joint venture between Costain, Jacobs and Colas where they have been entrusted with completing a diverse range of maintenance, incident response, weather management and road engineering duties across over 4300 miles of major road network. The network include Area 12 Yorkshire and Humberside and Area 4 in Kent which commenced from June 2016 for five years and have a combined estimated value of between £140m and £165 million per year.
The role of the Assistant Geotechnical Engineer is to aid in identifying needs and providing cost effective technical solutions to maintain or improve the Area 4 geotechnical asset to the standards agreed by the Network Board considering the needs of key stakeholders to the budget and programme agreed with the Schemes Delivery Team and where necessary the Asset Development Team.
Please note applications for this role close on 8th April 2019.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
Costain have been contracted for the design and build of a facility near Reading. The scope of works for this project will include Programme Management, Construction, Building Services (M&E), Instrumentation and Control Systems and various external works.
To complete delivery of the scope of works we need to review and complete traceability between the works and the compliance evidence leading in addition to eliciting and delivering new requirements. This work is being carried out to affect a timely validation of the systems followed by handback.
This role will be responsible for proving the traceability of the works to a complete and consistent set of requirements and that these requirements are fully satisfied in the delivered systems. The successful candidate in the delivery of their responsibilities will enable the project to demonstrate that products developed provide the specified functionality and that they will ultimately be able to demonstrate through assurance evidence to the customer that the minimal viable products have been achieved.
Potential candidates for this role must be able to obtain and retain Security Clearance to be able to be considered.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
East Sussex Highways is a joint venture between Costain and CH2M which will bring together several aspects of highways maintenance, such as roads, pavements, drainage, street lights, traffic lights and structures that are currently run by outside contractors and the county council.
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Costain’s purpose is to improve people’s lives through technology-based engineering solutions, to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation, we have been undertaking this vital work since 1865.
We work on large projects which currently include; Crossrail, Thames Tideway Tunnel, High Speed Rail and A14 improvement scheme, with main offices in Maidenhead, Birmingham and Manchester this is your opportunity to join a company that makes a difference through the innovative work they do and help influence, shape and deliver solutions.
You can read more about the company and our current work on our website: https://www.costain.com/
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
East Sussex Highways is a joint venture between Costain and CH2M which will bring together several aspects of highways maintenance, such as roads, pavements, drainage, street lights, traffic lights and structures that are currently run by outside contractors and the county council.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager with an Electrical Engineering background who will be part of a collaborative team providing Senior Management support to the Nexus DDP Framework project to ensure organisational effectiveness, efficiency and safety whilst growing the business.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
East Sussex Highways is a joint venture between Costain and CH2M which will bring together several aspects of highways maintenance, such as roads, pavements, drainage, street lights, traffic lights and structures that are currently run by outside contractors and the county council.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
East Sussex Highways is a joint venture between Costain and CH2M which will bring together several aspects of highways maintenance, such as roads, pavements, drainage, street lights, traffic lights and structures that are currently run by outside contractors and the county council.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
East Sussex Highways is a joint venture between Costain and CH2M which will bring together several aspects of highways maintenance, such as roads, pavements, drainage, street lights, traffic lights and structures that are currently run by outside contractors and the county council.
We are looking for a Highways Steward to complete highway safety inspections and monitor utility works.
This role will involve travel across parts of East Sussex.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
Costain Oil and Gas is a leading provider of full lifecycle engineering services in the development, design, delivery and maintenance of Oil & Gas infrastructure. Our capabilities include brownfield project & optimisation, decommissioning, field development, consultancy services, complex delivery, asset optimisation and technology.
Costain currently have a requirement for a Lead Piping Engineer to work on a permanent basis in our Aberdeen office. The ideal candidate will be at Principal or Lead level in their career with extensive years of experience within the industry in a similar role. You will have a thorough understanding of Equipment typically encountered in Oil & Gas projects and understand any special requirements that these may bring, such as Piping configuration / Vibration / Maintenance.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
Smart Motorways ease any excess traffic flow by converting the hard shoulder to a running lane and using new technology to vary speed limits in response to driving conditions. Works will include extensive earthworks, significant rotary bored & sheet piling, a re-newed drainage system, numerous reinforced concrete foundations for structural steelwork gantries, a new ducted infrastructure system and installation of overhead electronic signs.
The site office will be located in the main compound at junction 15 of the M1.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
Smart Motorways ease any excess traffic flow by converting the hard shoulder to a running lane and using new technology to vary speed limits in response to driving conditions. Works will include structural bridge extensions, extensive sheet pile retaining solutions, rotary piles, significant earthworks, drainage, installing a new ducted infrastructure system, installing overhead electronic signs and central barrier replacement work.
The M1 J13-16 project will be based at J15, just of the motorway.
We are looking to add additional site engineers to the team.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
Costain Oil and Gas is a leading provider of full lifecycle engineering services in the development, design, delivery and maintenance of Oil & Gas infrastructure. Our capabilities include brownfield project & optimisation, decommissioning, field development, consultancy services, complex delivery, asset optimisation and technology.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
We are looking for an experienced Electrical Engineer to join the team who will be required to support the ongoing delivery of the Electrical Distribution category at Sellafield.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
We are looking to add a Lead Electrical Engineer to the team who will lead technical design delivery of the Electrical Distribution Category across multiple projects and delivery teams both internal and across the supply chain.
To be considered for this role candidates should have previous experience at Sellafield, be a P4 Pass Holder and hold SC Clearance.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
Thames Tideway Tunnel, Main Works East is a £650m project recently secured by a Costain joint venture (“CVB”), to provide a new 7.2m diameter tunnel to divert waste from the Victorian built sewer from discharging into the Thames. The tunnel runs from Chambers Wharf to Abbey Mills where it connects with the Lee Tunnel. The works include: the main tunnel drive, a connection tunnel from Greenwich Pumping Station, shaft constructions, a connection to the newly constructed Lee Tunnel project, and minor works at Beckton Sewage Treatment, all as part of an overall project to reduce sewer discharge overflows into the River Thames. The works are scheduled to commence on site in March 2016 and complete in March 2022.
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Costain were appointed by Highways England to deliver two of the three sections of the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme as part of a Joint Venture (JV). The JV will complete two packages totalling circa £600 million of work. The A14 Improvement Scheme is required to enhance the capacity and reliability of the UK strategic road network in order to ensure better journeys for road users.
Stretching over 25 miles, the works will improve this highly congested stretch of road. Initial design work will commence immediately with the development of detailed plans for the delivery phase, which commenced late 2016. The road will be open to traffic in 2020, with the works in Huntingdon town being completed after.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
Costain have been contracted for the design and build of a facility near Reading. The scope of works for this project will include Programme Management, Construction, Building Services (M&E), Instrumentation and Control Systems and various external works.
We are now looking to add experienced Supervisors with an M&E background to the team.
Potential candidates for this role must be able to obtain and retain Security Clearance to be able to be considered.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
Costain have been contracted for the design and build of a facility near Reading. The scope of works for this project will include Programme Management, Construction, Building Services (M&E), Instrumentation and Control Systems and various external works.
We are now looking for experienced Site Engineers with an M&E background to join the team.
Potential candidates for this role must be able to obtain and retain Security Clearance to be able to be considered.
