HV Transmission Engineering Lead
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Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
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£41,700
(£21.38 per hour)
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Description
Job Description
Due to sustained and increased secured demand, we are expanding our engineering team for UK projects. We are pursuing several HV Transmission opportunities with National Grid and are seeking to hire a HV Transmission Engineering Lead. This role will involve heading a team of electrical engineers and designers within Costain’s in-house Engineering Services team.
You will be responsible for managing the electrical engineering delivery for the design of major Transmission projects across the UK, working closely with our other engineering disciplines, sector teams and commercial functions throughout the project lifecycle from tendering and preconstruction through to construction and handover.
The role will report to the Group Director of Engineering Services and offers a hybrid working arrangement predominantly based in London, Manchester or Aberdeen with a requirement to occasionally work at multiple 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
Due to sustained and increased secured demand, we are expanding our engineering team for UK projects. We are pursuing several HV Transmission opportunities with National Grid and are seeking to hire a HV Transmission Engineering Lead. This role will involve heading a team of electrical engineers and designers within Costain’s in-house Engineering Services team.
You will be responsible for managing the electrical engineering delivery for the design of major Transmission projects across the UK, working closely with our other engineering disciplines, sector teams and commercial functions throughout the project lifecycle from tendering and preconstruction through to construction and handover.
The role will report to the Group Director of Engineering Services and offers a hybrid working arrangement predominantly based in London, Manchester or Aberdeen with a requirement to occasionally work at multiple 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 liaison between the Engineering Services team and other departments as well as external supply chain partners across Costain’s portfolio of HV Transmission projects.
- 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.
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- A background in managing the delivery of electrical engineering services on complex HV transmission projects across the programme lifecycle
- Experience setting up, leading or operating other aspects of project engineering delivery such as design workflows, information management systems, quality controls
Essential
- 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 va
lues underpin everything 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