Project Engineer - West Kilbride

ZipRecruiter; West Kilbride; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 65,000

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Job Description

Project Engineer - West Kilbride

As a Project Engineer, you will support the Project Manager or Construction Manager in managing allocated work from assignment to close out, covering all duties related to work delivery as requested by the Project Manager or Construction Manager in order to ensure that the work is conducted in a safe, timely, and effective manner to its conclusion. This is a project-based role requiring daily site attendance.

Please note potential candidates for this role must be able to obtain and retain CTC (Counter Terrorist Check) level security clearance to be considered for this position (Minimum 3 years residence in UK).

Responsibilities

1. Identifying, implementing, and complying with applicable safety, environmental and quality standards, company procedures and policies, and other relevant legislative and regulatory requirements.
2. Support the Project Manager with day-to-day activities required to deliver work in line with the project plan including safety, quality, schedule, and cost objectives.
3. Prepare and maintain engineering documentation including Quality Plans and other documents as required.
4. Ensure production of technical specifications and support the process of contractor selection and contract placement.
5. Review technical documentation including contractor's documents and drawings.
6. Ensure technical queries are managed in accordance with processes and procedures.
7. Carry out technical appraisals of project options.
8. Perform feasibility studies, site surveys, and liaison with designers and station engineering staff as required.
9. Prepare engineering changes and manage the preparation of supporting and affected documents.

Qualifications

1. Suitable relevant project experience within engineering/construction projects, including the application of project management processes.
2. Suitable relevant technical experience including the preparation of technical documentation, the review and approval of technical proposals and procedures, experience of construction, testing, and commissioning activities.
3. Experience of Engineering in a project and operational environment.
4. Proven experience as a project coordinator, project engineer, or project manager.
5. HND or Degree in a relevant engineering discipline.

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 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.

About the Team

Costain helps to improve people's lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent needs across the UK's energy, water, and transportation infrastructures. Costain provides a project controls and commercial managed service to portfolios and programmes of work across EDF Energy's eight UK nuclear power stations.

As part of this work, Costain will develop people capability in core project control skills and provide specialist support to EDF's Central Technical Organisation to improve project performance and deliver cost efficiencies. We are supporting EDF in 2 main areas:

1. To successfully deliver projects that maximise the lifespan of their generating stations.
2. To successfully deliver a Defueling & Decommissioning programme, a first of a kind endeavour for the UK.