Principal Civil

**Principal Civil & Structural Designer**

Costain is currently looking for an experienced **Principal Civil & Structural Designer**to provide additional support to our civil and structural engineering team here in **Aberdeen**on a c**ontract basis**.

We would expect you to have demonstrable experience building structural models and details using **E3D/PDMS** from concept to detail design level, as well as experience with civil design and offshore structural design including topside modifications.

Experience and availability to carry out onshore and offshore surveys is essential.

**Duties**
- Preparation of design documentation as requested by Senior/ Principal or Lead Engineers.
- Ensure that asset or project discipline draughting activities are executed within budget and schedule, while maintaining technical integrity.
- Ensure work is carried out in accordance with relevant codes, standards and procedures. Maintain and develop current awareness of relevant codes and standards.
- Implement company, and where applicable, client/project policies and procedures.
- Remain abreast of legislative requirements.
- Ensure all interfaces to other disciplines are clearly defined and correctly designed
- Liaise with other disciplines, departments, project personnel, vendors, clients, etc.

**Qualifications / Experience**
- Qualified to City & Guilds or HND Level
- Extensive experience as a designer
- Expert E3D/PDMS experience
- Valid BOSIET
- Valid MIST
- Offshore structural design experience - topsides
- Ideally civil design experience
- Ideally experience carrying out 3D Laser Scans, but not essential
- Good communication and team working ethic

**About Costain**

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.

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

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**Right to Work & Security Checks**

Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we'll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, 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 have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

**Closing date**

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares 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.
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