Projectwide Engineering Lead

COSTAIN GROUP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure solutions company in Greater London is seeking a Project wide Engineering Lead to oversee engineering functions across various projects. The role demands extensive experience in managing large complex infrastructure projects and strong technical leadership. The successful applicant will be responsible for leading teams, ensuring compliance with regulations, and maintaining high engineering standards. This is a senior site-based position requiring significant collaboration across departments.

Qualifications

• Sustained Continuing Professional Development.
• Experience in large complex infrastructure projects.
• Expert understanding of Engineering Principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Project wide Engineering teams across SCS.
• Discharge Lead Designer duties.
• Champion Health, Safety and Welfare.

Skills

Project-based design

Engineering management

Communication skills

Leadership skills

Understanding of digital engineering

Education

Degree or higher with professional qualification

Tools

CSCS Card

Job description

Job Description

The Project wide Engineering Lead is responsible for all Projectwide engineering functions not embedded in one of the three Delivery Units. These functions include:

• Temporary Works
• Engineering & Tunnel Survey
• CDM
• Technical Claims & Investigations
• Geotechnical
• Materials

Across the above functions, the size of the team is around 100+ people. The Project wide Engineering Lead ensures the works are technically correct, assured, and coordinated between disciplines to facilitate delivery. They must collaborate closely with all other DU Engineering leads and the relevant operational leads in with the aim of a delivery of the project to the right quality, and demonstrate the highest standards of technical integrity.

This is a senior technical management role reporting to the Head of Engineering.

The role will be site-based in the project offices in Euston for a minimum of 3-4 days per week and will require regular presence across the project offices in Euston, North Acton and West Ruislip.

Timescales: we will be looking to conduct 1st-stage interviews in the second half of January 2026.

Responsibilities

• Leading the Project wide Engineering teams across SCS (S1/S2), ensuring consistency across the DU and asset team, and ensuring diligent and timely reporting, escalating as appropriate.
• Discharging appropriate Lead Designer duties.
• Fostering Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
• Championing Health, Safety and Welfare (HS&W).
• Challenging the team to Innovate and not accept the status quo.
• Leading compliance with the CDM 2015 Regulations from a technical perspective.
• Ensuring collaborative working, the right behaviours and culture within the team.
• Appropriately identify, manage, communicate and mitigate Risk.
• Prioritise appropriate and integrated technical change control. Ensuring that it is managed, monitored and the implications (including derogations) are assessed and authorised, as appropriate.
• Liaising and interfacing with other appropriate disciplines and third parties: Commercial, Planning, Consents & Engagement etc (not exhaustive list) providing the necessary technical input as a principal project Subject Matter Expert (SME) where applicable.
• Ensuring that the works are appropriately considerate for maintenance and health, safety and welfare during construction and in-use.
• Ensuring that the delivered permanent and temporary designs are subject to constructability reviews.
• Management of appropriate technical subcontractors.
• Identifying and implement opportunities for optimization of project programme.
• Management of Design integration and change control during construction.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Sustained Continuing Professional Development.
• Extensive experience in project-based design and engineering management across all project stages.
• Extensive experience of large complex infrastructure projects in the rail, highways, water or energy sectors.
• Expert understanding of Engineering Principles and extensive technical knowledge.
• Experience of managing the challenges associated with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Understanding of digital engineering in design and construction phases and of using the Digital Plan of Works.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Relevant CSCS Card.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree or higher and hold relevant professional qualification.

Desirable

• Chartered Engineer (ICE, iMechE, iStructE, IET, CIOB, CIHT, other).

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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