Job Description
As a Graduate Electrical Engineer, you will be responsible for a key element of work on a project, taking a significant role in technical delivery as well as managing aspects of time, cost, and quality. You will acquire technical, leadership, and project management skills and experience.
About The Project
Costain is the Major Programme Partner (MPP) and the Asset Renewal Partner (ARP) for Terminals 1 and 2, two of six major programmes of work that Heathrow has committed to deliver within the H7 quinquennium.
Within the MPP framework, Costain is the Principal Contractor and Principal Designer for the T2 Baggage Programme (T2BP), which is a £700m+ complex baggage and infrastructure programme.
Note: This role will work within the aviation sector, and you will be required to obtain an airside pass. To satisfy the requirements, you will need to provide 5 years of references and complete a criminal reference check.
Graduate Development Programme
The programme will focus on helping you to grow your personal and leadership skills, alongside business and, of course, the technical skills you will learn day-to-day on the job. It is delivered in various formats throughout the 2 years and will allow you to establish a network of contacts that will help and support you through your first 2 years and beyond.
We expect some of our graduates to rotate after a period of 8-12 months to another project/sector of the business to fully understand the depth and breadth of the services offered by the company. Our line managers are fully supportive of the Graduate Development Programme and will be involved in helping you along the way.
In addition to the programme, we offer mentoring and support in every area of work, as well as a structured training programme to enable graduates to work towards achieving Chartership. Graduates may have the opportunity to work on several exciting and progressive projects around the UK during the 2-year period in sectors including nuclear, highways, rail, water, airports, and tunnels.
Responsibilities
- Management of site operations, to ensure safety, quality, cost-effectiveness, timely production, and customer satisfaction
- Planning and sequencing of operations, including writing method statements and risk assessments, and procuring sub-contractor, labour, plant, and material resources
- Briefing teams
- Implementing operational quality control including setting out and QA processes
- Commercial management
- Design and design management
- Work winning
- Full engagement with the Costain professional development scheme, to become qualified in a 3 – 4 year period
Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- Work experience relevant to the engineering sector
- A passion for Costain's Carbon Net Zero targets
- IT proficient
- Able to work accurately and appreciate its importance to the team
- A willingness to learn with appropriate instruction
- Excel at building and maintaining positive relationships
- The ability to thrive in pressured situations
- The ability to empathise and communicate with all people, regardless of their background or circumstances
- Excellent organisation, communication, and time management skills
- Mobility to work on various projects over the 2-year programme throughout the UK
Qualifications
- You will have or are expected to achieve a good result in a relevant degree discipline
- Please ensure your application includes details of your educational qualifications at both degree and A Level, university course modules and projects undertaken
- If invited to interview, you will be required to produce your passport and/or right to work documentation
- Ability to travel to remote project sites
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, focusing on blue-chip clients with strategic national needs. We offer digitally optimised solutions covering the whole lifecycle of assets: strategic consultancy, 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 during the application phase. We do provide individual feedback following an interview.
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant who discloses a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. In certain recruitment situations, such as high-volume, seasonal, and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall number of interviews offered.
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Job Description
As a Graduate Electrical Engineer, you will be responsible for a key element of work on a project, taking a significant role in technical delivery as well as managing aspects of time, cost, and quality. You will acquire technical, leadership, and project management skills and experience.
About The Project
Costain is the Major Programme Partner (MPP) and the Asset Renewal Partner (ARP) for Terminals 1 and 2, two of six major programmes of work that Heathrow has committed to deliver within the H7 quinquennium.
Within the MPP framework, Costain is the Principal Contractor and Principal Designer for the T2 Baggage Programme (T2BP), which is a £700m+ complex baggage and infrastructure programme.
Note: This role will work within the aviation sector, and you will be required to obtain an airside pass. To satisfy the requirements, you will need to provide 5 years of references and complete a criminal reference check.
Graduate Development Programme
The programme will focus on helping you to grow your personal and leadership skills, alongside business and, of course, the technical skills you will learn day-to-day on the job. It is delivered in various formats throughout the 2 years and will allow you to establish a network of contacts that will help and support you through your first 2 years and beyond.
We expect some of our graduates to rotate after a period of 8-12 months to another project/sector of the business to fully understand the depth and breadth of the services offered by the company. Our line managers are fully supportive of the Graduate Development Programme and will be involved in helping you along the way.
In addition to the programme, we offer mentoring and support in every area of work, as well as a structured training programme to enable graduates to work towards achieving Chartership. Graduates may have the opportunity to work on several exciting and progressive projects around the UK during the 2-year period in sectors including nuclear, highways, rail, water, airports, and tunnels.
Responsibilities
- Management of site operations, to ensure safety, quality, cost-effectiveness, timely production, and customer satisfaction
- Planning and sequencing of operations, including writing method statements and risk assessments, and procuring sub-contractor, labour, plant, and material resources
- Briefing teams
- Implementing operational quality control including setting out and QA processes
- Commercial management
- Design and design management
- Work winning
- Full engagement with the Costain professional development scheme, to become qualified in a 3 – 4 year period
Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- Work experience relevant to the engineering sector
- A passion for Costain's Carbon Net Zero targets
- IT proficient
- Able to work accurately and appreciate its importance to the team
- A willingness to learn with appropriate instruction
- Excel at building and maintaining positive relationships
- The ability to thrive in pressured situations
- The ability to empathise and communicate with all people, regardless of their background or circumstances
- Excellent organisation, communication, and time management skills
- Mobility to work on various projects over the 2-year programme throughout the UK
Qualifications
- You will have or are expected to achieve a good result in a relevant degree discipline
- Please ensure your application includes details of your educational qualifications at both degree and A Level, university course modules and projects undertaken
- If invited to interview, you will be required to produce your passport and/or right to work documentation
- Ability to travel to remote project sites
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, focusing on blue-chip clients with strategic national needs. We offer digitally optimised solutions covering the whole lifecycle of assets: strategic consultancy, 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 during the application phase. We do provide individual feedback following an interview.
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant who discloses a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. In certain recruitment situations, such as high-volume, seasonal, and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall number of interviews offered.
