Water jobs in United Kingdom

Costain is growing its water industry sector and has some exciting opportunities likely to arise in the new year. These will be client‑facing roles and will give a fantastic opportunity to develop a career in one of the key industry sectors in the country. If successful, you will be working for Costain fronting into a major water sector client who is undertaking a rapid transformation series of activities that will give you experience and enable you to grow your career.

Ideally a planning (P6) background for the successful candidate with several years experience in a similar type of role and water experience would be advantageous.

Ideally water experience required; however the successful candidate will need to have Planning (P6) experience of several years and be able to demonstrate a good working planning knowledge.

Ideally water experience required; however the successful candidate will need to demonstrate several years of experience and a good working knowledge of project controls.

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.

Please register your interest and apply below and we look forward to speaking with you about our opportunities as they become available in the New Year!

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 on candidates at application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview.

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