Costain Group
Jul 02, 2025
Full time
Job Description This is an exciting and challenging role in a growing team of 130+ C&S Engineers and Designers. Our department covers a range of projects from Concept Studies through to Detailed Design provide a variety of interesting work. Industries can range across Water, Transportation, Energy, Nuclear and Defence As a Principal Engineer, you will be working in a multi-disciplinary team delivering infrastructure projects. You will be responsible for the delivery of civil and structural advice, analysis, calculations, reports and specifications. You will take responsibility for leading small projects and sub tasks from a technical perspective. Communicate designs effectively to the BIM teams, other disciplines, construction personnel and stakeholders. Office based 2-3 days in Manchester, attendance occasionally required for site visits, design reviews and client meetings, mainly within the Northwest region. You will support and guide more junior team members as well as challenge and deliver value engineering solutions, so you will need to be confident and authoritative in front of clients. Responsibilities As a client facing Principal Engineer, your responsibilities could involve: Responsibility for C&S discipline technical input for projects and/or proposals; including preparation, checking and/or approval of engineering documentation Organising discipline staff, allocating work and ensuring delivery against plan Mentoring and developing graduates and less experienced engineers Production of high-quality C&S engineering deliverables to schedule, budget and client satisfaction Ensuring all applicable national and international codes of practice, legislation and company/client standards and procedures are complied with. Ensure that work is carried out with relevant codes, standards and procedures, and maintain and develop awareness of current relevant codes and standards. Implement company, and where applicable client/ project policies and procedures. Communicate effectively with other disciplines to ensure that interfaces are clearly defined and correctly designed. Communicate appropriately with other departments, project personnel, vendors and clients. Assist in developing the knowledge and skills, including assisting in training and technical development of less experienced team members. Line-manage a team of civil engineers carrying out performance management, team development, work allocation and administration of company line-management processes. More specific tasks could include: Defining client requirements Planning and delivering project tasks undertaken by the C&S team Design of new structures, assessment of historic structures, checking and approving C&S documentation from subordinates. Development of specifications and sub-contract SOW's including GI / SI contamination scopes Optioneering assessments, defining scopes of work, supporting estimates and business development. Advise and guidance on specialist discipline matters relating to nuclear sector requirements, regulations, latest technologies and industry best practice. Supporting the PM in identifying change, progress reporting, tracking of issues, risks and resolutions Qualifications Essential Significant and proven experience in infrastructure at all stages of the project lifecycle. Good knowledge of UK design working practices and installation requirements of the discipline across a range of industries. Extensive knowledge of UK legislation and standards Awareness of risk identification, quantification, management and of HSE requirements Minimum BEng Civil or Structural Engineering Chartership with ICE or IStructE CSCS or CCNSG Security Clearance or eligibility for SC - UK Citizenship or 5 years UK residence Desirable Experience with new and historic structures, optioneering assessments, defining scopes of work, supporting estimates and business development. Experience in leading small teams and supporting more junior engineers. Knowledge and experience of common forms of contracts Project Management experience Requirements Management experience Temporary Works / Geotechnical Further industry recognised training and qualifications Project Management CDM NEC Geotechnical 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. Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview. A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
