Mechanical Project Engineer

Mechanical Project Engineer role at Costain Group PLC

Costain have won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have been appointed by United Utilities as one of 7 partners to Enterprise, delivering £5.5bn of projects in the Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8) between 2025 – 2030, and AMP 9 (2030 – 2035). Our scope is to provide project management, design, construction and commissioning services on design and build schemes throughout the North West and Cumbria region covered by United Utilities. Projects vary in value from £10m to £600m covering both infrastructure and non‑infrastructure assets on water and wastewater sites with wider Enterprise partners.

We are recruiting for a Mechanical Project Engineer to support the delivery of our United Utilities (UU) AMP8 projects, supporting them from outline design through to commissioning and handover. Working across the project lifecycle there will be a mix of office, remote and site‑based demand on your time.

You will be working within the wider construction delivery team engaging with designers to challenge and support efficient design development, supporting procurement and managing subcontractor delivery and commissioning both at their locations through manufacture, and on‑site during installation and commissioning. Throughout this you will be supporting the development of programmes and budgets and managing works aligned to these whilst also proactively monitoring safe and high quality delivery.

You will be able to communicate and engage with a variety of stakeholders confidently and maintain relationships with all stakeholders and partners (from internal teams to secure specialist inputs, site operators, client teams and supply chain partners).

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• Proactively promote health, safety and wellbeing in every aspect of design and delivery
  
• Manage mechanical packages, design and installation and all necessary coordination
  
• Support relevant HAZOP/HAZCON and wider project meetings as required
  
• Collaborate with the wider engineering team to ensure a robust and realistic sequence of construction, programme and budget of the whole project. You will support the development of mechanical aspects of this and the interfaces with wider delivery
  
• Co‑ordinate with the pre‑construction, delivery and wider teams to develop compliant, safe, considered solutions and address technical challenges
  
• Champion high quality delivery from the outset of design; developing processes, systems and initiatives to drive a high quality, right‑first‑time culture
  
• Ensure good working relationships are established with site operating teams; our supply chain partners and wider stakeholders.
  
• Provide accurate and timely project performance reports, ensuring projects are on track and contract requirements are met; sharing and celebrating success and developing improvement plans and implementing mitigation strategies as required
  
• Ensure appropriate permits, records and checks are undertaken through installation to meet contract requirements
  
• Collaborate with the wider Costain framework team (inc supply chain) to support efficient and effective delivery to drive continuous improvement
  

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• Relevant engineering or project management qualification
  
• CSCS card
  
• Driving licence
  
• Experience delivering mechanical packages across the project lifecycle in a collaborative delivery environment
  
• Ability to engage and build strong relationships with stakeholders, motivating, influencing and striving for mutual success
  
• Excellent knowledge of relevant regulations including but not limited to Construction Design & Management Regulations and the Costain Way Requirements in respect of temporary works, lifting, commissioning and handover
  
• Ability to understand relevant engineering technical standards
  
• Package management experience and contract awareness to effectively manage subcontract teams
  
• Solution focussed and passionate about improving performance in the sector through best practice, process improvements and continuous improvement practices
  
• Ability to work and learn quickly in a fast paced, fun and dynamic environment
  
• Care about doing a great job and exceeding expectations with the quality of what you do
  
• Flexibility and adaptability to be able to respond rapidly to unexpected events, having the ability to shape our responses appropriately
  

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• Water industry experience
  
• Bio‑resources experience
  
• Experience supporting multidisciplinary teams over multiple locations
  
• Experience of working with both construction and design teams
  
• A personal drive for continued professional development
  

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

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