Costain Group PLC

Risk

• **Key Responsibilities**
• Responsible for programme level technical governance on water projects from initial definition of need through optioneering, solution development, detail design and construction support.
• Key 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 water quality 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 CMDP as well as maintaining mutually constructive, positive, and beneficial relationships.
• Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality.
• **Knowledge, Skills, and Experience**
• Essential:
• Engineering discipline
• Experience of technical project delivery in a design-build environment
• Experience in the Water Sector with extensive clean water knowledge
• Commercially astute with an eye for detail preparing and reviewing contractual technical documents
• Degree in an engineering-related discipline
• Able to identify and manage project/programme risk
• Able to identify and manage changes to project scope
• **Desirable:**
• Chartered Engineer in an engineering-related discipline
• Experience of working in Joint Ventures
• Experience of offsite manufactured design solutions
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Technical Risk Manager

Engineer

• Supporting the establishment and management of the programme, monitoring, control and reporting requirements to comply with the Contract.
• Facilitating the successful delivery of the Project(s).
• Developing and maintaining schedules ensuring interface milestones, WBS, client governance gateways (not exhaustive) are captured correctly.
• Providing monthly progress updates and input into reporting requirements.
• Applying Earned Value Management techniques.
• Ensuring alignment of costs with the programme and resource where necessary.
• Arranging timely planning workshops and reviews with the team.
• Analysing schedules and providing critical path analysis and proactively managing activities and milestones.
• Ensuring reasons for changes to the project’s baseline plan are understood and communicated to the wider project team.
• Challenging schedule and cost variances against the baseline plan.
• Managing and maintaining Cost Control, including labour reporting and resource forecasts.
• Supporting Applications for payments to the client.
• Production of weekly & monthly reports, ensuring they are validated and submitted to suit both internal and external reporting requirements.
• Ensuring that project controls processes are consistently applied across the project and ensuring overall integration of performance information.
• Supporting governance to ensure robust cost and schedule performance.
• Proposing Key Performance Indicators and monitoring them.

Senior Project Controls Engineer

• Providing technical expertise in Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation (EICA)
• Contributing to the whole project life cycle from feasibility and conceptual design through to commissioning support and handover
• Managing a small team of engineers and designers to deliver multiple projects from a technical perspective
• Approval of Electrical, Control and Instrumentation project deliverables
• Development of affordable solutions to meet EA regulatory compliance
• Collaborating with sub-contractors on intrusive site surveys to define required modifications and power requirement/upgrades
• Completing Electrical Load Schedules and identifying telemetry requirements
• Development of Best Practice and achieving our Net Zero sustainability target
• Ensuring strict compliance with all applicable national and international codes of practice, legislation and company/client standards and procedures. Specifically WIMES
• Preparing equipment and materials requisitions for a range of electrical, electronic and instrumentation and Control equipment
• Preparing sub-contractor installation scopes of work
• Reviewing supplier and sub-contractor quotations and completing technical bid assessments

Principal ICA Engineer – Water

Recruitment

• Support the Talent Acquisition Partner and hiring managers to ensure that the talent acquisition process is delivered in a professional, timely and accurate way.
• This includes but is not restricted to:
• - Vacancy request processing
• - Cv formatting
• - Interview arranging and subsequent admin
• - RTW checks
• - Offers
• - Identify other ways to promote the resourcing process and service offered through weekly/bi-weekly project update meetings.
• - Ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the process
• Work in partnership with the Talent Acquisition Partner to identify current and future candidates for active vacancies. Use all advertising channels and platforms to increase visibility of Costain D&NE opportunities to the widest possible network.
• Build a strong Candidate pipeline for future opportunities
• Adopt a collaborative way of working with the Talent Acquisition team and share best practice, new ways of working and maximise candidate opportunities by understanding open and future requirements across the Sector
• Work in partnership with the on-boarding team and the hiring manager to co-ordinate the offer process to ensure candidates get accurate and attractive offers quickly.
• Stay in regular contact with candidates and managers throughout the process to ensure an excellent candidate experience

Talent Acquisition Advisor

Project Manager

• Overall accountability for successful project delivery including initiation, planning, design, delivery, monitoring, commissioning and handover/close out.
• Provide leadership, project management and inspire a multi-disciplinary team.
• Determine the most appropriate means of satisfying the customer, project requirements, key objectives and constraints; Safety, time, cost, quality, scope, risk and benefits.

Senior Project Manager – HV Transmission

• Production and checking of tendering and design deliverables, aligned with your technical discipline, to meet project needs and client requirements.
• Coordinating project work activities between team members – such as interdisciplinary reviews.
• Engaging / leading technical reviews, meetings and presentations to support scope delivery, closing out of technical actions.
• Completion of work packages to cost, time and quality needs, managing change and other resources / people as required to achieve this.
• Support to others in the project team and wider Costain to ensure project and corporate outcomes are achieved.
• Collaborate and ensure learning is shared, proactively challenge / celebrate safety performance.
• Collaborate with suppliers, other designers, construction team and similar to produce a robust and safe design output.

Senior Pipeline Engineer

• Lead the development of the main works scope for the design and build of the new facility.
• Assist with the procurement, selection and onboarding of contractors and subcontractors to complete the work scopes.
• Responsible for the onboarding and mobilisation of the contractor once a main contractor has been awarded the contract, which includes the development of the construction phasing, logistics, laydown areas, stakeholder interface and construction planning works, as well as design-related activities.
• Understand the Client and Joint Venture Partners' Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability Policies, processes and statutory requirements as they affect the project’s operations and ensure compliance in the tender process and design.

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Assist the Accounts function with site account tasks as required, to ensure accurate and timely records.
• Reconcile creditor accounts, fuel charges, purchase cards and other similar administrative support duties.
• Record, process and investigate invoice queries and ensure a timely resolution.
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders as required.
• Input cost journals in line with relevant procedures with appropriate approval and communication.
• Assist accounting team with month end processes, ensuring accurate recording of costs.
• Process allocated staff expenses in accordance with the Costain policy.

Finance Assistant

People Operations

• Oversee the successful execution of our People Experience and Wellbeing offerings
• Deliver on short, medium, and long-term company objectives for creating a thriving workforce
• Support with the delivery of effective communication and education of all people experience and wellbeing matters
• Collaborate with key interested parties within the business and work with external providers to deliver engaging and impactful initiatives

People Experience and Wellbeing Advisor

• Prepare and review legal entity consolidation packs, including ETB adjustments, on a quarterly basis, performing and understanding trend analysis on period movements.
• Prepare and review legal entity financial statements, ensuring they are accurate and compliant with the relevant technical standards and the Companies Act.
• Produce technical accounting calculations and disclosure notes for IFRS 16 leases, IFRS 9 expected credit loss model, IFRS 7 financial instruments, IFRS 2 share-based payments, IAS 33 earnings per share and IAS 24 related parties.
• Deliver high quality audit deliverables for technical accounting calculations and support the coordination of the audit.
• Write high quality technical accounting papers to support key accounting applications and judgements.
• Support the production of accurate and timely external statutory reporting for the group and related Board papers.
• Assist in the maintenance and promotion (e.g. through training) of the Costain manual of accounting.
• Support the business with technical accounting queries, reviewing papers/proposals where necessary.
• Develop the graduate placement in the team and ensure smooth task transfers through placement handovers.
• Drive standard processes through principles of simplification, standardisation, and, working with the wider team, automation where appropriate.
• Support the establishment and maintenance of an effective business control framework.
• Other ad hoc finance projects for the benefit of the business.

Finance Manager

• Responsible for the monthly production of a monthly PMR reporting on profit, loss, forecasting project performance and overall commercial health of the project.
• Establishing professional and appropriate relationships with clients, colleagues and other parties involved in the projects and programmes we support.
• Administering a variety of contracts in accordance with project objectives and policies.
• Managing and maintaining Cost Control and Forecasting on a range of projects.
• Ensuring the basis of Estimates at Completion (EAC) is predicted using industry recognised approaches or as required by the Contract , including but not limited to, the latest resourced schedule and EVM productivity as to ensure accurate, reliable and consistent forecasting and ensuring that any change is managed and reported.
• Preparation of monthly and weekly cost and resource reports.
• Supporting the development and management of independent risk analyses of cost reports and cashflows.
• Producing Invoices and application for Payments to the Client.
• Providing an integrated, timely and reliable Cost Reporting service to both internal and external stakeholders in accordance with the requirements of Costain’s processes and the Contract.

Senior Cost Engineer

Administration

• Provide General Administration support to users, within specified service level agreements including new starters/leavers and licence administration.
• Maintain the Database System Environment and Infrastructure.
• Monitor Performance Issues and take appropriate steps to resolve issues and ensure system availability.
• Design/Implement Changes to Primavera data structures in line with business requirements and change procedures.

Primavera P6 Administrator

Manager

• Responsible for establishing the programme, monitoring, control and reporting systems to comply with the Contract, and to facilitate the successful delivery of a Major Project.
• Use your knowledge and experience to support the most efficient and effective delivery of the project.

Senior Project Controls Manager

• Process design of Clean Water pumping stations, dosing packages and control systems that achieve the goals of Anglian Water in terms of customer, environment and efficiency. This will incorporate complex hydraulics and system control
• Support the Process Discipline Head in the drive towards excellence in H&S, demonstrating applied knowledge & skills to produce safe designs to discharge your obligation according to CDM Regulations, standards and accepted codes of practice.
• Process calculations, hydraulics, unit processes, pump calcs, capacity calculations, water quality assessments, control philosophies, SCADA integration, system commissioning integration
• Data sheets.
• Technical bid analysis of 3rd party process equipment
• Ensure all technical work is undertaken to the correct standards & specifications. Ensure the requirements of MAS are adhered to & offer challenge when applicable.
• Be responsible for maintaining your own quality and consistency of all process engineering technical documents.

Lead Process Engineer

• Work within the project controls team and be responsible for cost control and forecasting.
• Have a central role in the application for payment, earned value management and weekly and monthly reporting.
• Providing insight into variances between planned and actual costs and recommendations for mitigations.
• Use your knowledge and experience to support the most efficient and effective delivery of the project.
• Based in Teesside with a requirement to be on site as a minimum 3 days a week.