Design Engineer - All Levels

COSTAIN GROUP; Lewes; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure solutions company in the UK seeks Design Engineers of all levels with Water or Wastewater experience. Successful candidates will collaborate in a multidisciplinary team, drive design projects, and contribute to sustainability goals. A degree in engineering and progress towards a Chartered review are essential. Join us in delivering innovative infrastructure solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years proven experience in design engineering in Water or Wastewater.
• Proficiency working within UK regulatory frameworks.
• Effective in managing project workflow and team coordination.

Responsibilities

• Produce and check design deliverables for projects.
• Coordinate project work across team members.
• Lead technical reviews and project meetings.
• Manage project resources to meet time and quality needs.
• Support sustainability targets and project reporting.

Skills

Design engineering experience

Water/Wastewater experience

Ability to manage resources

Reporting progress and risks

Leading design meetings

Understanding sustainable design

Education

Degree in relevant engineering discipline (civil, electrical, mechanical, ICA)

Progressing towards Chartered professional review

Job description

Job Description

CMDP+ is looking to strengthen its Design teams on our Southern Water Framework. MWH Treatment and Costain Group are part of the CMDP+ joint venture that will deliver a range of construction schemes to maintain and improve Southern Water's water supply and wastewater treatment works within the South and Southeast regions.

We are looking for Design Engineers (all levels) with Water or Wastewater experience and one or more of the following: civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or Instrumentation, Control & Automation (ICA) background.

Responsibilities

• 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, in particular Costain sustainability targets. Support project reporting data such as KPIs / carbon etc.
• 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.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essentials

• Have design engineering experience within (Mechanical, Civils, Electrical or ICA).
• Water / Wastewater experience.
• Be able to manage resources as required.
• Be able to accurately report progress / risk / opportunities / change etc.
• Be able to lead design meetings, deliver presentations and groups.
• Understand sustainable designessentials.
• Able to work accurately and deliver to promise, predict and report potential challenges to delivery.
• Actively learn and share best practice into the discipline team.
• Able to support estimate development – scoping / hours / risks / assumptions.
• Have working knowledge of UK Regulatory framework associated with technical discipline, ie CDM, Electrical, Environmental, Process etc.

Qualifications

Essential

• Progressing towards a Chartered professional review with relevant chartered body such as ICE, CIWEM.
• Degree or equivalent in a related engineering discipline (e.g. civil, electrical, mechanical, ICA).
• Driving licence.

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.

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