Graduate Civil Engineer

Costain Group PLC; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK is seeking a Graduate Civil Engineer to join their Graduate Development Programme. The role involves managing construction activities, ensuring adherence to project specifications, and developing technical and leadership skills. Graduates will have opportunities to work on various projects across the UK, gaining valuable experience in the civil engineering sector.

Qualifications

• A Civil Engineering Degree with at least 2:2 or above.
• Excellent organisation, communication, and time management skills.
• IT proficient with experience in Microsoft Office and AutoCAD.

Responsibilities

• Supervising and managing construction activities from start to finish.
• Planning and sequencing of operations, including writing Method Statements.
• Implementing operational quality control including setting out and QA processes.

Skills

Communication

Time Management

Leadership

Organisation

Education

Civil Engineering Degree

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

AutoCAD

Job description

Job Description

Job Description

About Costain: At Costain, we help to improve people’s lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet to thrive. We work together to shape, create, and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the UK’s infrastructure ecosystem across energy, water, transportation and defence markets.Through our collaboration with customers, partners, communities, and wider industry we will deliver an infrastructure fit for a better future.

Costain Graduate Development Programme

Our programme will focus on helping individual to learn a mix of both Leadership and Technical skills.

We offer a structured training programme to enable graduates to work towards achieving Chartership in their chosen field.

Graduates may also have the opportunity, after the first 8 – 10 months to rotate and to work on a number of exciting and progressive projects around the UK during the 2-year period, experiencing the best we have to offer across the different sectors we work in.

Our line managers are fully supportive of the Graduate Development Programme and will be involved in helping you along the way.

Responsibilities

As a Graduate Civil Engineer, you will be responsible for a key element of work on a project taking a significant role in technical delivery. In addition, you will have the responsibility of managing all aspects of time, cost and quality and will acquire technical, leadership and project management skills and experience. This will include undertaking the following tasks:

• Supervising and managing construction activities from start to finish, ensuring adherence to project plans, drawings and specifications.
• Planning and sequencing of operations, including writing Method Statements and updating the Safe Systems of Work for our Contractor and Sub-Contractor Works, ensuring compliance of approval dates and information accuracy.
• Implementing operational quality control including setting out and QA processes
• Commercial management including reporting project updates and potential risks to the wider team
• Design and Design management
• Analysing and interpreting engineering drawings, survey reports and other technical documentation to guide the construction process.
• Ensure all aspects of the project align with engineering and design specifications, industry standards and construction regulations.
• Coordinate the procurement and delivery of construction materials and equipment, ensuring their compliance with industry standards.
• Identifying potential risks and implementing preventive measures to minimise project delays, cost overruns and safety hazards.
• Work winning
  
  

Qualifications

• A Civil Engineering Degree with at least 2:2 or above
• IT proficient (Experience with Microsoft Office Suite, AutoCAD and other software)
• A good working knowledge of construction methods, materials and regulations.
• Excellent organisation, communication, and time management skills.
• A willingness to learn and take on new challenges.
• Have passion for Costain's Carbon Net Zero targets.
• A willingness to learn with appropriate instruction
• Excel at building and maintaining positive relationships
• The ability to thrive in time sensitive situations
• Excellent organisation, communication, and time management skills
• Mobility to work on various projects over the 2-year programme throughout the UK if required
  
  

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.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:

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About The Team

Costain are working with Thames Water on a variety of water and wastewater projects and have fantastic opportunities for individuals to join our growing AMP7 delivery team, working predominantly across the Thames Valley and Thames South regions. There is a mix of projects ranging from smaller capital maintenance to large civil new build schemes.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Internship

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Civil Engineering

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