Costain Group PLC

Controller

• Keep the document control system up to date and follow company procedures.
• Log, issue and track documents to internal teams, suppliers and clients, keeping clear records of who received what and when.
• Manage version control and audit trails so only current documents are used.
• Enter and update metadata accurately; run simple status and distribution reports when asked.
• Prepare and maintain templates and forms; respond to document requests promptly.
• Coordinate reviews and approvals so documents are turned around on time.
• Carry out basic quality checks for completeness, file naming and formatting before issue.
• Liaise with project teams and external parties; escalate document issues or delays early.

Junior Document Controller

Product Designer

• Deliver engineering solutions at programme level from initial definition of need through optioneering
• Solution development and detail design
• Construction support
• Lead a team of Design Managers and Discipline Design engineers in the development of water technical solutions
• Ensure affordable design solutions are developed within project budget
• Establish collaborative working relationships with the client and design teams
• Ensure sustainable design solutions completed in accordance with CDM Regulations
• Agree design budgets, monitor performance against the budget and provide forecast costs to completion for individual projects
• Prepare monthly project status reports
• Ensure continuous professional development by participating in external networking/conferences/associations/groups
• Maintain a positive and solution-oriented approach to work

Senior Design Manager

Manager

• Managing allocated MEICA engineers ensuring work is undertaken safely in accordance with Company Procedures, specifications, Quality, program and good working practices.
• Ensuring the smooth and efficient running of all MEICA activities from design through to scheme final completion.
• Reporting of MEICA activities and progress to the relevant C&DLs/Program Managers.
• Assisting C&DL & Program Manager in the selection and allocation of MEICA resources.
• Providing Technical & Quality support for Project M&E Site Managers.
• Management of M&E subcontractors to ensure they meet safety, program, quality and design requirements.
• Ensure MEICA Engineers fulfil their R&R’s and deliver schemes in a safe compliant manner.
• Monitoring and reporting of key milestone program dates.
• Monitoring and reporting of MEICA related Project risks or potential efficiencies.
• Carry out new starter MEICA inductions.
• Assist in the reviews of Compliance & Commissioning Plans in conjunction with the Area Commissioning Manager and Project Delivery Teams.
• Engage with client stakeholders through project lifecycle (PM, FPM, SWOPS).

Commissioning Manager

• Ensure compliance with The Costain Way gates & controls for design commissions within your control
• Control flow of information between parties to ensure relevant information is available to the relevant teams at the right time, including supply chain partners
• Prepare design scopes and agree deliverable requirements in collaboration with relevant teams
• Co-ordination of reporting aligned to the Framework requirements and agreed KPIs
• Management of the project teams to deliver against agreed design deliverables, programmes & budgets
• Hold and record regular design meetings to actively manage progress and coordination
• Co-ordinate and manage design risk, buildability, carbon and DfMA workshops (amongst others)
• Liaise closely with other members of the team to support package procurement and any respective supply chain partners
• Work closely with commercial team to ensure engagement with supply chain partners to support the design development with timely provision of design information
• Ensuring design compliance with Severn Trent, industry and Costain standards; ensuring necessary derogations are secured as required. Challenge design solutions to ensure a safe, efficient and buildable design, considering DfMA and low carbon solutions which meet the Client’s affordability challenges
• Coordination and recording of design reviews, technical assurance reviews and CDM reviews
• Ensure design is implemented and managed aligned to the project BIM strategy
• Be conversant with current legislation, especially that which applies to health and safety, which is relevant to tasks being carried out
• Promote the business in a professional manner to both external and internal persons or organisations
• Maintain and grow professional working relationships with the design team, delivery team, commercial team, and employer team and communicate well with them

Design Manager

• Establish and maintain the Project Quality Management System and monitor compliance
• Ensure quality risks are identified, recorded and steps are taken to mitigate or eliminate
• Support the Senior Project Management in the achievement of the Quality Objectives and establish, monitor and report against project Quality KPIs
• Establish the Quality requirements for the subcontractors and supply chain and subsequent pre-qualification assessment and approval for the preferred suppliers list
• The main Quality Management interface with the customer, subcontractors and supply chain
• Establish the Quality Surveillance/Right 1st Time Programme across Costain, the subcontractors and supply chain
• Establish the project audit plan and verification oversight requirements to verify contractual compliance is achieved, including leading internal audits and external audits of subcontractors and supply chain
• Non-conformance management, including identification of potential failures / symptoms that could lead to non-conformances and apply preventive action
• Managing the QA/QC resource, regarding budget, availability and location against project life cycle
• Ensure that all project Quality Records are verified in accordance with relevant technical specifications and that project specific procedures and systems are in place for monitoring and measuring Quality Records concurrency with project life cycle & Right 1st Time (R1T) delivery

Quality Manager

Recruitment

• Attracting, engaging, and hiring top talent across Operational, Design and Commercial functions.
• Delivering an effective and inclusive recruitment process with a key focus on candidate experience and sourcing candidates.
• Supporting workforce planning and ensuring the right people to deliver essential water services sustainably and efficiently.
• Building strong project relationships and sourcing external candidates across various job disciplines for all projects.
• Involvement in true value add projects to create resourcing process efficiencies over the AMP8 period.

Talent Acquisition Advisor

• Delivering engineering solutions at a project / framework level from initial definition of need through optioneering, solution development, detail design and construction support.
• To lead a team of discipline design engineers in the development of wastewater 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 solution 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 completed in accordance with CDM Regulations
• Provide design solutions that meet all the requirements of the programme’s systems and governance procedures.
• Agree design budgets, monitor performance against the budget and provide forecast costs to completion for individual projects.
• Record, monitor and control design changes in order to maximise cost efficiency.
• Establish and agree design costs and programme timescales with the Project Manager and Principal Design Manager, providing report metrics regularly including narrative.
• Organise the work required and document the Design Management Plan / Project Execution Plan.
• Deliver the design stage outputs of each project within the agreed timescale and budget.

Supply Chain

• Delivering Supply Chain Management across the framework, providing direction and support in the process. This will include collaborating seamlessly with the pre-construction estimating team and the post-award Procurement and Commercial team under our One Team, One Costain vision
• Utilise the Procurement Process to enable ECI, guiding the team on the decision-making criteria such as (but not limited to): the maturity of the design, the preservation of commercial tension, the likely benefits realisation pipeline, the opportunity to secure scarce resource, the relationship with the proposed ECI 2-stage Subcontractor and the ability to take a recommendation through The Costain Way gated governance
• Ensuring a robust and structured supply chain exists to service the requirements of the projects / frameworks fully complying with the How- to- Buy Process. Feeding into both the sectoral and Group Strategic, Preferred and Approved Supply Chain Segmentation model
• Enabling the drive towards Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), including but not limited to local Small to Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) engagement, delivering Social Impact, as well as Net Zero
• Promoting collaboration between the business and the supply chain to unlock value through innovation and best practice where appropriate using the principles of ISO44001 or P13 principles
• Developing strong relationships with key internal stakeholders to democratise the procurement process, our strategic approach and governance, unlocking Value for Money across our portfolio of work
• Developing relationships with client’s Supply Chain and Procurement teams, participating in their initiatives to assist them in achieving their goals, maximising stakeholder engagement with external stakeholders to deliver outcomes
• Supply Chain Performance Management, including managing under-performance

Supply Chain Manager

Full-stack Engineer

• Providing civil and structural (highways) advice, analysis, calculations, reports, and specifications.
• Leading small projects and sub-tasks from a technical perspective.
• Effectively communicating designs to BIM teams, other disciplines, construction personnel, and stakeholders.
• Emphasis on supporting and guiding junior team members, as well as challenging and delivering value engineering solutions.
• Confidence and authority in client interactions are essential.

Senior Engineer – Highways, Transportation

• Provide visible and effective leadership, where necessary lead the planning team and work with the project/programme manager to deliver the business case benefits and outcomes.
• Define the planner resource strategy for the project, support planner recruitment and oversee their development.
• Oversee the interfacing and integration with the project controls team to maintain an aligned financial position with the Project/Programme Plan.
• Lead planner capability building and the use of best practice in planning and reporting.
• Develop clear vision and standards and champion the use of best practice project planning standards, tools and processes.
• Build strong networks both internally and externally.
• Work with the senior management team to ensure the programme accurately reflects the state of the project/programme.
• Review performance data, looking at trends to identify areas for improvement and collaboration, and selecting appropriate methods and tools to resolve them.
• Provide quality assurance, complete peer reviews, deep dives and problem solve.

Planning Manager

Engineering Manager

• To manage the delivery of multi-discipline engineering design on projects through the various stages of the project lifecycle ensuring they are safe-by-design*, sustainable, digitally enabled, cost-effective, compliant, technically sound and meet commercial delivery targets through: *CDM PD/D compliance
• Ensuring that Engineering resource requirements are identified and effectively utilised to allow execution of projects in accordance with the project requirements and targeting for maximum productivity and efficiency.
• Ensuring all Engineers fully understand the detailed scope, basis of design, budget and programme requirements of the project.
• Co-ordination of Engineering and Design interfaces between Costain and other project partners / supply chain partners.
• Management of contractual communications, supporting progress meetings, risk reduction meetings, cost reports, coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams and running / closing out contract actions
• Regularly reporting to senior operational management on the performance of the engineering delivery for the project
• Providing a commercial focus with a high level of challenge on project scope and protecting against uncontrolled scope creep
• Ensuring effective deployment and use of company engineering delivery processes on projects including engineering design strategy; master deliverable plan, project schedule, work/cost breakdown structure; process safety management and engineering governance process.
• Ensuring that key project and programme risks are identified early, and mitigated where possible, with issues and blockers escalated immediately.
• Ensuring all services comply fully with Client & Costain governance processes, standards and obtaining necessary approvals.
• Developing productive relationships by communicating with colleagues and subordinates, developing trust and support and building teams.
• Lead by example, displaying the Company’s values and behaviours, and commitment to the highest standards of safe and ethical behaviour, to ensure safe and reliable operations and client satisfaction.
• Ensure that personal and corporate compliance with Health and Safety policy including company policy, relevant legislation, company and client’s requirements for Health, Safety and Environmental matters and to work in such a manner not to cause personal harm or injury to fellow workers, client and sub-contractors employees or the environment.
• Work collaboratively with business development, work winning and marketing functions to develop and tender new opportunities. Developing and reviewing the engineering strategy; basis of estimate; engineering manhour estimate; schedule; risk register; engineering gates and technical proposal.
• Support the Discipline Managers in developing and mentoring other members of the project engineering department.
• Support the Discipline Managers in maintaining/improving project engineering corporate processes, including workflows, methods, competency, software systems and technical standards and ensuring project lessons learnt are effectively captured and embedded.

Project Engineering Manager, Rail

• Providing commercial input at work winning stage.
• Overall responsibility for commercial resourcing of project teams.
• Management of commercial personnel responsible for the following activities:
• Main Contract management and administration.
• Supply chain management (including supply chain contract administration).
• Commercial Document Control.
• Cost capture and control (including completion of CLRs).
• Commercial reporting.
• Planning & programme management.
• Responsible for cash management.
• Liaison and negotiation with the Customer’s commercial and/or project team.
• Establishing and maintaining productive and collaborative relationships with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensuring valuations and reports are prepared and issued in line with deadlines.
• Ensuring compliance with company procedures and contract requirements.
• Ensuring appropriate commercial records are maintained in line with the contract requirements and overseeing the resolution of any contractual issues.
• Providing guidance and support to the commercial team and developing the skills and competencies of commercial staff.
• Overseeing recruitment of appropriately competent commercial personnel in accordance with project needs and company procedures.
• Providing commercial advice to the Contract Leader and/or Sector management team.
• Ensuring a consistent approach to commercial issues across the Sector and cross Sector.
• Manage and report on matters relating to insurances relevant to the project.
• Review value management and advise on Risk management.
• Understanding the implications of health and safety regulations.
• Ensure all health, safety and environmental risk situations are brought to the attention of Contract Leader/Project Manager.

Senior Commercial Manager

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Set-up all new Staff and Agency joining the business for E1 Timesheet Entry as and when required
• On-going maintenance of TEFA personal records to ensure the data is accurate
• Work with the relevant finance teams and business partners to set up any additional Job Step/Job Type and WPS as required
• Process E1 Timesheets via SQ3 process ensuring smooth operation of weekly postings
• Monitor control reporting to identify missing timesheets and follow up with the relevant party to resolve
• Process E1Bill to ensure Off Payroll Worker data is updated in a timely manner
• Close E1 Business for completed Contracts/Bids, on an ad-hoc basis
• Production of monthly Agency Reconciliation statements and journals, resolving any queries arising to ensure balances are controlled
• Assist in driving standard processes for TEFA through principles of simplification, standardisation
• Maintain the TEFA data processes, controls, and documentation
• Support ad-hoc projects relating to system developments where necessary
• Deputise for the Finance Manager – Systems & Controls when required

Finance Assistant

Project Manager

• Assist with and maintain appropriate systems to enable effective planning and scheduling.
• Assist in maintaining project controls and in producing project reports.
• Responsible for project file management using robust version control. Organise key project meetings, and provide secretariat support.
• Management of staff as appropriate, including their development.
• Assist with maintaining the stakeholder log for internal and external stakeholders. Act as the focal point for project responses to external requests for information.
• Assist with the monitor of project spend and contribute to the compilation of budgets. Maintains an accurate asset register for the project.
• Assist with and maintain risk and issue logs, escalating as appropriate.

Assistant Project Manager

Executive Assistant

• Manage the annual programme of Board and Committee meetings including preparation of agendas, attendance at some meetings to take minutes, oversight of the distribution of Board and Committee papers and maintenance of forward business schedules and action logs.
• Preparation of sub-committee minutes.
• Preparing and submitting regulatory announcements, FCA and NSM notifications/uploads, complying with all relevant deadlines and the Listing Rules, Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules requirements e.g. Total Voting Rights, TR1 notifications, directors’ dealing and six-monthly Blocklisting returns.
• Annual Review of Board and Committee Terms of Reference and Matters Reserved for the Board.
• Supporting in the delivery of training and inductions of directors.
• Administration and advice in relation to the Market Abuse Regulation and the Costain Dealing Code including maintenance of insider and project confidential lists.
• Maintenance of Governance pages of website (liaising with the Corporate Communications team).
• Analysis of results and preparation of Board and Audit Committee papers in respect of the internal Board and Committee performance evaluation and internal and external audit evaluation processes.
• Accountability for a portfolio of approximately 30 UK companies: maintaining the statutory records database and ensuring all statutory requirements are met.
• Preparing minutes for subsidiary companies in relation to statutory accounts, dividends, changes to directors etc.
• Assist in the preparation of documentation as required to serve the information needs of Group Finance, Tax departments and auditors at the half-year and year-end.
• Providing company secretarial support on any corporate simplification activities, equity injections, liquidations and inter-company dividends.
• Assist in the drafting of sections of the Company’s Annual Report, initially taking full responsibility for the drafting of the Directors’ Report, Directors’ biographies and Shareholder information section and providing input to the Governance and other sections.
• Liaison with auditors on verification process.
• Drafting the Notice of Annual General Meeting and ancillary documentation, and liaison with the designers and registrars regarding distribution.
• Supporting the organisation of the Annual General Meeting and drafting the chair’s script.
• Administer (in conjunction with the Deputy Company Secretary) the launch, ongoing maintenance and maturity of options under the Company’s two executive share plans and UK Sharesave scheme.
• Liaison with Company’s employee benefit trust.
• Assist in the review of Blocklisting applications to ensure that sufficient shares are available for issue by the company Administration of all listing applications liaising with the Company’s brokers.
• Maintenance of Directors’ interests schedules in accordance with the Share Ownership Guidelines.
• Assisting with managing the share register, including liaising with the registrar, supporting with the AGM and General Meetings, responding to shareholder enquiries and all administration in relation to dividend payments.

Junior Document Controller

Senior Design Manager

Commissioning Manager

Design Manager

Quality Manager

Talent Acquisition Advisor

Design Manager

Supply Chain Manager

Senior Engineer – Highways, Transportation

Planning Manager

Project Engineering Manager, Rail

Senior Commercial Manager

Finance Assistant

Assistant Project Manager

Graduate Company Secretary Assistant