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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 infrastructures, we have been undertaking this vital work since 1865.
We work on large projects which currently include; Crossrail, Thames Tideway Tunnel, High Speed Rail, Nuclear and A14 improvement scheme, with main offices in Maidenhead, Solihull 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/
We have several opportunities for this position based across our EDF nuclear framework, HS2, Highways and Power Sector. Please note that those offered positions on a nuclear project, may be subject to additional security checks.
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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.
Costain Integrated Technology Solutions provide integrated hardware and software based solutions across a broad spectrum of traffic monitoring and management requirements.
This role is for a site based installation engineer. The role will involve the installation of equipment at various sites across the UK, travelling to client sites which may be motorway, roadside or construction sites. The work will involve working at height and can be daytime or night shifts. Due to varying site locations, the applicant must be willing to work away from home during the week if required.
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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 MWH has secured one of the non-infrastructure frameworks at Severn Trent and has been allocated core, projects covering Waste Water in the South and East and Clean Water in the South of Severn Trent’s service area.
The Framework office is located in the Warwick area close to the M40.It is expected that we will be delivering Design & Build Project solutions with STW turning over c£40-60 M per annum. The Framework agreement covers both the AMP5 and 6 periods (i.e. 2010 - 2020 = total value c£400M+). Our JV Design Partner is MWH.
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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 MWH has secured one of the non-infrastructure frameworks at Severn Trent and has been allocated core, projects covering Waste Water in the South and East and Clean Water in the South of Severn Trent’s service area.
The Framework office is located in the Warwick area close to the M40.It is expected that we will be delivering Design & Build Project solutions with STW turning over c£40-60 M per annum. The Framework agreement covers both the AMP5 and 6 periods (i.e. 2010 - 2020 = total value c£400M+). Our JV Design Partner is MWH.
There are 2 MEICA Project Engineer roles. 1 based at Spernall, and the other Draycote & Trimpley
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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 MWH has secured one of the non-infrastructure frameworks at Severn Trent and has been allocated core, projects covering Waste Water in the South and East and Clean Water in the South of Severn Trent’s service area.
The Framework office is located in the Warwick area close to the M40.It is expected that we will be delivering Design & Build Project solutions with STW turning over c£40-60 M per annum. The Framework agreement covers both the AMP5 and 6 periods (i.e. 2010 - 2020 = total value c£400M+). Our JV Design Partner is MWH.
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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 MWH has secured one of the non-infrastructure frameworks at Severn Trent and has been allocated core, projects covering Waste Water in the South and East and Clean Water in the South of Severn Trent’s service area.
The Framework office is located in the Warwick area close to the M40.It is expected that we will be delivering Design & Build Project solutions with STW turning over c£40-60 M per annum. The Framework agreement covers both the AMP5 and 6 periods (i.e. 2010 - 2020 = total value c£400M+). Our JV Design Partner is MWH.
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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.
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.
The Aone+ is a joint venture between Costain, CH2M 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.
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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.
Approximately 1.1km apart, the A19 Testos and Downhill Lane junctions suffer from congestion, especially during peak times. Development of the International Advanced Manufacturing Park, will mean a long term increase in traffic at the Downhill Lane junction so the scheme will make major improvements to ensure these junctions are able to cope with increased vehicle numbers.
We are looking for experienced Site Engineers to join the team starting in March 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 supports Energy Nuclear Generation to maximise the lifespan of its eight UK nuclear power stations. Under the three-year contract, which started from April 2017, Costain's role is to provide project controls and commercial managed services to portfolios and programmes of work across all of EDF's eight UK nuclear power stations. As part of this work Costain will develop people capability in core project control skills and provide specialist support to EDFs Central Technical Organisation to improve project performance and deliver cost efficiencies.
We are looking to add a Senior Cost Engineer to the team who will be responsible for providing cost management support to the EDF Energy Nuclear Generation work portfolio and will monitor, control and forecast the costs during the Project lifecycle. The main focus will be to work with Project Managers to manage project costs and their integration with the management of risk, change and the schedule in accordance with EDF Energy Generation Company standards and processes.
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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 MWH has secured one of the non-infrastructure frameworks at Severn Trent and has been allocated core, projects covering Waste Water in the South and East and Clean Water in the South of Severn Trent’s service area.
The Framework office is located in the Warwick area close to the M40.It is expected that we will be delivering Design & Build Project solutions with STW turning over c£40-60 M per annum. The Framework agreement covers both the AMP5 and 6 periods (i.e. 2010 - 2020 = total value c£400M+). Our JV Design Partner is MWH.
Agent / Senior Engineer positions available at Newent, Trimpley and Draycote
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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 supports Energy Nuclear Generation to maximise the lifespan of its eight UK nuclear power stations. Under the three-year contract, which started from April 2017, Costain's role is to provide project controls and commercial managed services to portfolios and programmes of work across all of EDF's eight UK nuclear power stations. As part of this work Costain will develop people capability in core project control skills and provide specialist support to EDFs Central Technical Organisation to improve project performance and deliver cost efficiencies.
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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.
The 'Technology Project Lead' will provide technical leadership and support the Project Manager in order to deliver a bespoke inspection and survey tool.
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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 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.
Smart Motorways ease any expedite traffic flow by converting the hard shoulder to a runnimg lane and using new technologu to vary speed limites in response to driving conditions. Works will include installing a new ducted infrastructure system, installing overhead electronic signs and central barrier replacement work.
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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.
As a General Operative, you will be responsible for contributing to the Employers Service Delivery Plan (ESRP) for street lighting and signing works and for complying with the requirements of Work Instructions. Your duties include ensuring construction is undertaken in accordance with the Standards stated in the ESRP including the generation of quality records and as-built drawings that show compliance with the ESRP and other requirements.
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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 are delivering the works associated with Davenport accepting the Astute Class Submarine into their Dry Docks. Maintaining a consistent and coherent set of requirements and assurance documentation is particularly challenging to this multi-disciplinary project where a large number of discrete work packages are working in tandem towards a set of common performance and functional requirements.
To deliver the scope of work we are implementing a Systems Engineering approach. The System Engineering Team is responsible for developing and managing robust requirements, leading technical assurance, planning Validation, Verification and Systems Integration activities and providing configuration control for the integration and assurance frameworks of the projects.
This role will be responsible for ensuring that a complete and consistent set of requirements for dry docks and associated systems are specified 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.
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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.
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.
Approximately 1.1km apart, the A19 Testos and Downhill Lane junctions suffer from congestion, especially during peak times. Development of the International Advanced Manufacturing Park, will mean a long term increase in traffic at the Downhill Lane junction so the scheme will make major improvements to ensure these junctions are able to cope with increased vehicle numbers.
The role of agent is to liaise with the Senior Agent and control the contractors and resources onsite. You will lead and drive the area of works under your control, in accordance with the Contract Programme, to best commercial advantage, without prejudice to the health and safety of employees, sub-contractors or the public at large and taking into full account environmental considerations. You will support the training and development of the Site Engineering team.
