Senior Site Engineer

Costain; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure solutions company is seeking a Senior Site Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne. This role involves delivering projects valued from £1m to £10m and ensuring compliance with quality and safety standards. Candidates should have a degree in Civil Engineering, project management experience, and strong interpersonal skills. The successful applicant will collaborate with site teams and manage project delivery effectively.

Qualifications

• Previous experience of working on multidisciplinary projects.
• Experience of delivering projects safely to quality, time, and budget.
• Practical experience in delivering to NEC forms of contract.

Responsibilities

• Support and develop site teams.
• Ensure consistent reporting of project metrics.
• Maintain a commercial focus on project scope.

Skills

Project level experience for contracts over £1m

Experience working with MEICA interfaces

Good communication and interpersonal skills

Computer competence (Microsoft tools, Primavera)

Ability to build trusted relationships

Team player with collaborative behaviours

Education

Degree level/HNC/HND qualification in Civil Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Due to significant growth in our water sector, we are recruiting for a Senior Site Engineer to join our delivery team, working on the Northumbrian Water Framework. Costain have won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have been appointed by Northumbrian Water to the Living Water Enterprise to help shape and deliver its strategic infrastructure upgrade programme with contracts valued up to c.£670m to Costain over the next 15 years.

The Senior Engineer will support the delivery of projects allocated to Costain and ranging in value from £1m - £10m in this first wave. This allocation covers both STW upgrades and Storm Overflow works. You will work across the project lifecycle from concept, ECI, delivery and through handover working with our design and delivery team, engaging with site operational teams and supply chain partners (on one or multiple sites). You will support development of our construction strategies and programmes and ensuring we are setting up and delivering safely to quality, time and budget.

Responsibilities

• Support and develop site teams
• Support production and implementation of project plans, RAMs, ITPs and waste management
• Be responsible for robust and comprehensive site records (diaries, allocation sheets etc)
• Ensure supply chain remain compliant with the framework management plan
• Fully support our safety culture to strive towards Zero LTI and RIDDOR Incidents
• Maintain a commercial focus with a high level of challenge on project scope and choosing efficient delivery strategies
• Work closely with the Site/Senior Agent to ensure sites have suitably competent and skilled resources required to complete tasks
• Ensure consistent and reliable reporting of project SHE metrics, progress, cost, change etc
• Ensure key project risks are identified early, and mitigated where possible

Qualifications

• Project level experience for contracts over £1m
• Previous experience of working on multidisciplinary projects
• Experience working with MEICA interfaces and/or in a water environment would be beneficial
• A team player who can develop working relationships and demonstrate collaborative behaviours
• Experience of delivering projects (or packages of work within small-medium-large projects) safely to quality, time and budget
• Practical experience and familiarity of delivery to NEC forms of contract
• Ability to build trusted relationships with key stakeholders and across the operational sites, client team, our Framework team (including design and supply chain partners) & Costain group
• Computer competence (standard Microsoft tools, document control system, Primavera software)
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Degree level/HNC/HND qualification in a relevant Civil Engineering discipline
• SMSTS
• CSCS
• Driving licence

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.

Costain appreciate 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 application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview.

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Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Civil Engineering