Principal / Senior Control & Instrumentation Engineer

Costain; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Costain is seeking a Lead Design Engineer for the Energy Sector in London. This hybrid role involves overseeing engineering projects, mentoring staff, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Candidates should have significant experience in relevant engineering fields with a chartered status, focusing on delivering high-quality project outcomes.

Qualifications

• 15 years engineering experience in Oil & Gas, Nuclear or Water sectors.
• Good knowledge of UK legislation and standards.
• Competent with installation requirements in potentially explosive atmospheres.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical input for projects including documentation preparation.
• Organizing staff and ensuring project delivery.
• Mentoring less experienced engineers.

Skills

Design working practices

Mentoring and developing

Technical documentation

Safety compliance

Equipment installation

Education

Chartered or Incorporated engineer

Job description

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Job Description

This is an excellent opportunity where you will hold the Lead Design Engineer position on one or more Projects in our Energy Sector. Within this sector, Costain deliver projects to industry leading clients across a number of phases. Whether it be a concept study, FEED or EPCm project, you will work as part of multi-discipline team to deliver best in class engineering on time and to budget. Our pipeline provides the opportunities to work in a variety of areas from brownfield Oil and Gas assets to cutting edge Hydrogen production and storage. We also offer the opportunity to work in our other sectors such as Nuclear and Defence or Transport. Costain provide a collaborative and supportive working environment to enable our people to thrive.

This is a hybrid role with 2/3 days based at the London office with the option for dynamic working.

Senior Engineers will be considered for the position. Responsibilities and experience requirements will be reduced accordingly with job role requirements being addressed by a gap analysis and development plan

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Responsibilities

As a client facing C&I Engineer, your responsibilities could involve:

• C&I discipline technical input for projects and/or proposals; including preparation, checking and/or approval of engineering documentation
• Organising discipline staff, allocating work and ensuring delivery against plan
• Mentoring and developing graduates and less experienced engineers
• Production of high-quality C&I engineering deliverables to schedule, budget and client satisfaction
• Ensuring all applicable national and international codes of practice, legislation and company/client standards and procedures are complied with
• Preparing equipment and materials requisitions for control systems, safety systems, analyser houses, field instrumentation and other instrument equipment
• Preparing installation scopes of works
• Reviewing supplier's quotations and preparing technical bid assessments

More specific tasks could include:

• Full life-cycle development (hardware and software) of either control or protection systems
• Software qualification of SMART devices and PLCs
• Functional Safety determination (both probabilistic and deterministic)
• Preparation of C&I equipment datasheets and specifications
• Production and modification of C&I safety cases and / or cyber security cases

Qualifications

• Chartered or Incorporated engineer
• Good knowledge of design working practices and installation requirements of the discipline across a range of industries.
• 15 years engineering experience in the Oil & Gas, Nuclear and/or Water sectors
• Extensive knowledge of UK legislation and standards
• Competence in the requirements for installation of equipment in process plants involving potentially explosive atmospheres
• Status with a relevant professional body or evidence of being close to gaining these professional titles
• Focussed on business improvement by proactively creating efficiencies, supporting the recruitment of talented people, promoting the Costain brand and contributing to an excellent working environment

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.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.

We do share individual feedback following an interview.

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