Graduate Civil & Structural Engineer

Graduate Civil & Structural Engineer role involving design, analysis, and project delivery on infrastructure projects, with a 2-year development programme and progression toward chartership.

Job Description

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

Responsibilities

- Preparing engineering design calculations, specifications and reports utilising emerging digital technology and in line with latest codes 

- Supporting the successful delivery of design projects in line with the contracted cost and programme 

- Communicating with other members of the project team & supply chain, often in a multi-disciplinary environment 

- Coordinating the detailing and drawing requirements on the project 

- Developing designer’s risk assessments 

- Identifying opportunities to improve the sustainability considerations in our projects including delivering low carbon solutions in our design processes 

- Seek to improve existing ways of working, by finding efficiencies in processes and automating design deliverables 

- Support Work Winning team

- Full engagement with the Costain professional development scheme to become a Chartered Engineer within 3-4 year period 

Locations

The roles will be based at either our Manchester office

Costain 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.

The programme is delivered in a variety of 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.

You will have the opportunity to gain experience on a range of exciting projects and sectors during this period, including highways, rail, nuclear, energy, water and aviation. This will help you develop an understanding of depth and breadth of Costain’s engineering services while also increasing your engineering ability.

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

Qualifications

- Understanding of the CDM Regulations 

- Minimum 2:1 achieved in a Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering degree accredited by the ICE or IStructE

- MSc in a Civil or Structural Engineering degree preferred 

- Work experience relevant to the Civil & Structural Engineering sector preferred but not essential 

- Have experience working with Eurocodes and British Standards

- Have 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 

- This role is mainly based in our Manchester office with ad hoc site visits across the first 2 years 

As some of our project sites are based in remote locations, it is worth noting that you will be required to have the ability to travel to site 

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.