Graduate Civil Engineer

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 the wider industry, we will deliver an infrastructure fit for a better future.

Costain Graduate Development Programme:

Our programme will focus on helping individuals 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 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.
• Ensuring all aspects of the project align with engineering and design specifications, industry standards, and construction regulations.
• Coordinating 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 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 appreciates 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 the application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview.

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