Graduate M&E Engineer

Job Description
About the project
HS2 Rail Systems Package 2 involves the design, supply, build, testing and commissioning of all tunnel and lineside M&E systems between London and Birmingham. Scope of works includes installation of tunnel ventilation, cable management, containment and earthing, fire suppression systems, LV distribution and tunnel lighting, cross passage doors, earthing & bonding, points heating, junction lighting and power installation. Costain will be prime contractor, delivering the works with the support of a design team and specialist supply chain partners.

Purpose Of The Role
To develop the skills required to allow you to become responsible for key elements of work on a project, taking a significant role in mechanical engineering and technical delivery as well as managing aspects of time, cost and quality. You will acquire technical, leadership and project management skills and experience.

Graduate Development Programme
The programme will focus on helping you to grow your personal and leadership skills, alongside business and of course, the technical skills you will learn day-to-day on the job. The programme is delivered in a variety of formats throughout the 2 years and will allow you to establish a network of contacts that will help and support you through your first 2 years and beyond.

We expect some of our graduates to rotate after a period of 8-12 months, to another project/sector of the business to fully understand the depth and breadth of the services offered by the company.

Our line managers are fully supportive of the Graduate Development Programme and will be involved in helping you along the way. In addition to the programme, we offer mentoring and support in every area of work, as well as a structured training programme to enable graduates to work towards achieving Chartership.

Graduates may have the opportunity to work on a number of exciting and progressive projects around the UK during the 2-year period, in sectors including nuclear, highways, rail, water, airports and tunnels.

Extra information
Please note that for some of our roles, and in order to rotate around the business as part of the graduate scheme, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and be able to successfully complete the vetting process.

Responsibilities

• Management of site operations, to ensure safety, quality, cost effectiveness, timely

production and customer satisfaction including planning and sequencing of operations

• Writing method statements and risk assessments
• Supporting procurement of sub-contractor, labour, plant, and material resources
• Providing team briefings covering operational requirements and performance updates
• Implementing quality control and QA processes to meet regulatory requirements
• Commercial and contract management
• Supporting design development and design management
• Providing scope and growth development proposals and work winning

Qualifications
You will have achieved or are on track to achieve a Bachelor's degree at grade 2:2 or above in a Mechanical degree or relevant discipline.

• Full UK Drivers Licence
• Have passion for Costain's Carbon Net Zero targets
• A willingness to learn with appropriate instruction
• Excel at building and maintaining positive relationships
• The ability to thrive in pressured situations
• Excellent organisation, communication, and time management skills
• Mobility to work on various projects over the 2-year programme throughout the UK
• Please note that if you are invited to interview, we will require you to produce your passport and/or right to work documentation.

As some of our project sites are based in remote locations, it is worth noting that you will be required to have the ability to travel to site
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.

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About The Team
Costain are providing technical advisory input to Arup in order to develop the HS2 Phase 2a West Midlands to Crewe and Phase 2b Lot 3 East Midlands to Leeds preliminary design and environmental statements (ES). The works include developing the design to a sufficient level of detail to allow deposit of the hybrid Bill for each contract to parliament and to support the Bill through the parliamentary process in order to obtain Royal Assent.

Royal Assent is to be obtained by end of 2019 for Phase 2a and by late 2022 for Phase 2b.

Although the HS2 Phase 2a scheme travels mainly through open countryside on a series of embankments, viaducts and cuttings, engineering challenges includes a crossing over the M6, two sections of twin bore tunnel and a skewed crossing of the West Coast Mainline (WCML) before turning north to run parallel with the WCML on the approach to Crewe.

Phase 2b will incorporate similar features including embankments, viaducts and cuttings. It also incorporates one station, two depots and a twin bore tunnel.