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Costain Group PLC

Principal Civil & Structural Engineer

Costain Group PLC

Principal Engineer leading civil and structural engineering projects for Costain's multi-discipline team. Opportunity to progress into a leadership role within the engineering team.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeGreater Manchester • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Carry out a lead role on projects and represent client needs for civil and structural engineering
  • Coordinate and manage teams delivering to quality, programme, and budget requirements
  • Provide specialist civil and structural support across various projects and sectors.
  • Lead, support, and mentor team members
  • Assist in developing knowledge and skills of the Civil and Structural team

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Hold professional qualifications such as Chartership or Incorporated Status
  • Educational experience relevant to their engineering discipline, ideally degree qualified to a 2:1 or better
  • Secondary level education, such as A levels, BTEC, T levels etc
  • Safety passport or similar
  • Have UK experience in the full cycle of project design delivery from inception to detailed design
  • Experience of working within UK multidisciplinary teams and able to provide technical monitoring to Graduate Engineers and technicians
  • Have wide reaching engineering experience across the full engineering lifecycle – client sales to legacy close out
  • Have clear knowledge of UK Regulatory framework associated with technical discipline, ie CDM, Electrical, Environmental, Process etc
  • Eligibility to obtain Security Clearance.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Costain is a Disability Confident employer, generally offering interviews to applicants that disclose a disability and meet minimum job criteria.
  • Professional development opportunities.

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Hard Skills & Tools
civil engineeringstructural engineeringproject design deliverytechnical monitoringengineering lifecycle
Soft Skills
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Certifications
ChartershipIncorporated StatusSafety passport