Costain Group PLC

Manager

• Lead and manage all aspects of early contractor involvement site activities, focusing specifically on constructability reviews for control gates on trunk sewers.
• Personally arrange, supervise, and coordinate site surveys (e.g., utility mapping, CCTV, structural checks) and compile detailed technical reports to inform the detailed design phase.
• Safely manage all pre-construction and site operations within a live highways environment, ensuring compliance with local authority guidelines and robust traffic management planning.
• Provide construction leadership, manage all aspects of construction, and put safety above all else.
• Promote a Right First-Time approach to quality and avoid rework.
• Support the Project Lead in all construction matters including handover and final asset commissioning.

Construction Manager

• Manage work winning transformation and continuous improvement initiatives
• Provide management information and controls needed to run and report on work winning performance
• Lead on major change initiatives to work winning process, tools, and organisation
• Link to business development and key account management
• Ensure CRM use evolves and harvest, record, and make useful case studies and evidence
• Monitor and coach adherence to and evolution of work winning processes
• Collect, promote and communicate best practices
• Lead on management information, owning the ‘check’ stage of the work winning plan-do-check-act cycle

Senior Systems and Performance Manager

General

• Lead Subcontract Procurement activities on projects within the sector
• Collaborate seamlessly with stakeholders across multiple functions
• Support the completion of procurement strategy documents
• Manage updates throughout the project
• Ongoing reporting of procurement progress on projects
• Deliver predictable best-in-class outcomes
• Assist with ensuring a robust and structured supply chain exists
• Develop strong relationships with key internal stakeholders
• Support and mentor junior members of the Procurement and Supply Chain team
• Drive towards environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
• Promote collaboration between the business and the supply chain

Senior Buyer – Subcontract

• Drive and lead projects commercially to ensure they are procured, delivered within budget and to the highest quality
• Formulate commercial strategies in connection with conflict avoidance, conflict management and dispute resolution
• Ensure compliance of all contractual activities on the project
• Develop and manage the issue of accurate, timely and compliant notices and correspondence
• Monitor and report on all commercial aspects of projects, proposing mitigation actions for any issues
• Manage the assessment and valuation of contractor applications and payment certifications
• Provide advice on change management and produce documentation for approval
• Ensure proper retention and archiving of commercial records and undertake final account settlements

Commercial Manager

• Lead and develop the efficient and effective management and issue of accurate, timely and compliant notices and correspondence and ensure the compliance of all contractual activities on the project
• Project day to day guidance, and provide strategic advice to technical and construction staff for matters having significance to the projects, risks and commitments
• Ensure contractual and commercial risks and opportunities are identified to the Project Director / Commercial Manager and address in a timely manner
• Maintain registers of variations, delays, extension times and claims, effective and consistent implementation of the Company's commercial policies and procedures
• Assist with preparation of monthly progress valuations and claims for work completed
• Liaise with Costain commercial & client teams within a collaborative manner to leverage opportunity and optimise the project outturn
• Produce pre-Contract tender negotiations & reports where necessary
• Produce monthly cost reports, accurate and regularly updated forecasts, and contract budget reports to ensure details are appropriately underpinned and robust. This will involve regular visits to site and working with site team and collaborative planning board to ensure that forecast reflects all works required to be undertaken including resources
• Review value management / value engineering exercises
• Prepare, review and complete sub-contract documentation
• Prepare & agree final accounts with sub contractors
• Be fully responsible and accountable for procurement and management of subcontracts from initial placement of order to final account
• Monitor and update procurement plan, sub-contract procurement including analysing commercial comparisons
• Understand and evaluate entitlements to extensions of time / loss & expense / claims and/or disputes relating to outstanding payments to sub-contractors

Project Quantity Surveyor

Risk

• **Key Responsibilities**
• - Facilitates and leads all aspects of the risk management process to the compliance of the risk management plan
• - Authors the Contract Risk Management Plan, including annual updates
• - Facilitates monthly risk reviews with risk owners to ensure quality of risk data is upheld • Publishes monthly risk registers.
• - Generates monthly reports for the key risk roles to undertake responsibilities
• - Upholds and reviews risk product quality against associated risk standards.
• - Prepare risk data and undertakes routine risk analysis

Project Risk Manager

Civil Engineer

• Prepare preliminary and detailed design analysis, calculations, specifications and related documentation for civil and structural temporary and permanent works
• Communicate designs effectively to the BIM teams
• Challenge and deliver value engineering solutions
• Supervised and mentored by our senior engineers in a friendly teamwork environment

Civil and Structural Engineer

• 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

Principal Civil & Structural Engineer

• Delivering key elements of design work on projects including carrying out feasibility studies, reference designs, detailed designs, and preparing reports and technical specifications and proposals
• Design delivery and management of resources
• Prioritizing / sequencing work
• Supporting others and driving design delivery progress
• Responsibility for output quality

Senior Civil & Structural Engineer

Director

• Ensures projects are completed to quality, schedule, and budget; anticipating and developing contingency plans to mitigate risks and issues
• Responsible for overall performance including profit and loss across specified customer accounts
• Manages and controls risk and change to meet Costain and client objectives
• Manages stakeholders and project to deliver direct (project) and indirect (e.g., social value) benefits
• Develops effective project delivery organisations and secures sufficiently qualified and experienced personnel to meet the project needs
• Selects, integrates, and assures the supply chain required to meet the project needs
• Assures efficient project execution by leading teams to remove complexity and maximise productivity
• Demonstrates high profile and visible safety leadership. Responsible for ensuring all project requirements are achieved for health, safety, environmental impact mitigation, and security
• Ensures compliance with and continuous improvement of quality management systems

Delivery Director

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.

Project Engineering Manager, Water Sector

Engineer

• Working within our water sector team, providing specialist hydraulic support on our water projects including thermofluids, network flows and hydraulic modelling.
• Independently produce and manage production of engineering deliverables such as calculations, drawings, specifications and reports for civils infrastructure with a strong focus on constructability.
• Support the designs, assessment, optimisation and analysis for water and wastewater processes, including analysis techniques to be used within computational fluid dynamics analysis for water/wastewater processes.
• Responsible for modelling and analysis outputs, providing effective design solutions looking at short, medium and longer-term impacts.
• Interfacing closely with other disciplines and construction operations.
• Delivering to budget and ensuring changes are compensated for.
• Challenging and delivering value engineering solutions.
• Communicating confidently and authoritatively with clients.

Senior Hydraulic Engineer, Water

• Provide visible and effective leadership and resource planning to lead the planning team and work with the project/programme manager to deliver the business case benefits and outcomes.
• Oversee the interfacing and integration with the project controls team to maintain an aligned financial position with the Project/Programme Plan.
• 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 and reflects current strategy.
• Review performance data, looking at trends to identify areas for improvement and collaboration, and selecting appropriate methods and tools to resolve them.

Planning Manager

• The Engineering Manager will be accountable for all aspects of engineering associated with delivering the WWHAR throughout the entire project lifecycle, from detailed design through to handover (to NCC and NH).
• Working directly under the Project Director as part of the Senior Management Team, you will lead the detailed design to ensure design is delivered by the design teams, on time and to a high right first time standard.
• Provide technical leadership and manage site engineering activities to ensure all elements are delivered safely, to the required quality, on time and within budget.
• Engage with the client team, including the Technical Advisor, NEC Supervisor as well as stakeholders from National Highways to foster good relationships and enable successful handover of the scheme into operation and maintenance.
• Ensure all works are carried out in accordance with the design information, planning constraints, relevant technical specifications and Costain Way guidance.
• Manage a team of technical design management, engineering and quality assurance staff, including TWC, lifting AP and electrical AP.

• Ensure construction is adequately considered in detailed design
• Provide construction leadership and manage all aspects of construction including investigations/surveys and mobilisation.
• Ensure all works are carried out in accordance with The Costain Way.
• Put safety above all else and lead by example.
• Promote a Safe, Efficient, Right First-Time approach to quality and avoid rework.
• Manage a team of engineering staff and collaborate with other members of the project leadership team.
• Support the Project Director in all construction matters including handover.
• Provide planning and procurement support, implementing product control and all related subcontract activities.