Head of MEICA - Engineering Services
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Electrical service and maintenance mechanics and repairers
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
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Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
Costain’s strong pipeline of work across the sectors in which we operate, alongside our strategic growth ambitions of being an engineering led business has led to an emerging opportunity to head up the mechanical, piping, electrical and C&I engineering disciplines within Costain’s in-house Engineering Services team.
We are excited to announce an opportunity for a Head of MEICA to join our dynamic Engineering Design team. This position is available in Manchester, London, or Aberdeen and will support secured frameworks and confirmed demand, leveraging Costain’s robust pipeline of work across various sectors.
As we pursue our strategic growth ambitions to become an engineering-led business, this role will lead the mechanical, piping, electrical, and C&I engineering disciplines within Costain’s in-house Engineering Services team.
You will be responsible for managing a multi-disciplinary engineering team delivering engineering and design services across a range of complex projects within the UK Energy, Water, Nuclear, Defence and Transportation sectors. You will work closely with our other engineering disciplines and sector facing teams throughout the project lifecycle from tendering and preconstruction through to construction and handover.
The role will report directly to the Group Director of Engineering Services and offers a hybrid working arrangement predominantly based in London, Manchester or Aberdeen with an occasional requirement to travel to project locations throughout the UK depending on contract needs.
At Costain, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If you’re passionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our team, we’d love to hear from you—even if you don’t tick every box. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need.
Responsibilities
Costain’s strong pipeline of work across the sectors in which we operate, alongside our strategic growth ambitions of being an engineering led business has led to an emerging opportunity to head up the mechanical, piping, electrical and C&I engineering disciplines within Costain’s in-house Engineering Services team.
We are excited to announce an opportunity for a Head of MEICA to join our dynamic Engineering Design team. This position is available in Manchester, London, or Aberdeen and will support secured frameworks and confirmed demand, leveraging Costain’s robust pipeline of work across various sectors.
As we pursue our strategic growth ambitions to become an engineering-led business, this role will lead the mechanical, piping, electrical, and C&I engineering disciplines within Costain’s in-house Engineering Services team.
You will be responsible for managing a multi-disciplinary engineering team delivering engineering and design services across a range of complex projects within the UK Energy, Water, Nuclear, Defence and Transportation sectors. You will work closely with our other engineering disciplines and sector facing teams throughout the project lifecycle from tendering and preconstruction through to construction and handover.
The role will report directly to the Group Director of Engineering Services and offers a hybrid working arrangement predominantly based in London, Manchester or Aberdeen with an occasional requirement to travel to project locations throughout the UK depending on contract needs.
At Costain, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If you’re passionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our team, we’d love to hear from you—even if you don’t tick every box. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need.
Responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as the primary Engineering Services contact for Costain’s Mechanical, Piping, Electrical and C&I disciplines, liaising with other Engineering Services teams, Costain sector project delivery teams, group functions as well as external supply chain partners.
- Effectively communicate with key project stakeholders on design progress, challenges, risks and outcomes to ensure alignment and manage expectations.
- Must accurately forecast future team resource needs, ensuring effective utilisation of design resources and recruitment to meet demand. Expected to ensure the collective team skillsets and deployed resources accurately align with current and future project demands and complexity.
- Responsible for leading the successful delivery of mechanical, piping, electrical, controls & instrumentation engineering services across all contracts, ensuring scope and service requirements, budgets and programmes are clearly defined and adhered to. Will be responsible for ensuring the smooth transition between design phases, monitoring progress against budget and programme, and clear reporting of this to senior management, sectors and clients.
Essential
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- A background in managing the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering teams on complex infrastructure projects across the programme lifecycle
- Experience in successfully managing the delivery of complex engineering scopes to budget and programme
- Demonstratable experience in effective change management and leading value engineering exercises
- A background in managing engineering teams, responsible for managing workload, resource demand and skillsets
- Significant engineering design experience within a relevant engineering discipline
- Experience with managing 3rd party designers / sub-contractors, including technical approvals, compliance with customer specifications and resource competency etc
- Experienced technical manager capable of reviewing technical quality and compliance of design deliverables; understanding of key technical concepts across a range of engineering design disciplines (e.g. civil, mechanical, electrical, piping, instrument)
- Demonstratable record of promoting safety in design, lean design concepts, sustainable practices or digital innovations
Desirable
QUALIFICATIONS
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 eve
- Experience setting up, leading or operating other aspects of project engineering delivery such as design workflows, information management systems, quality controls
QUALIFICATIONS
- Degree qualification in a relevant engineering discipline
- Chartered Engineer (IET, IMechE, ICE, other)
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 eve
rything we do.
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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 .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign