Location
Manchester with hybrid working - office attendance circa 2-3 days per week. Occasional site visits, design reviews and client meetings at client offices.

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Costain’s Water Division within CEL is seeking a Principal Civil & Structural Engineer to join their multi-discipline engineering and design team. This team delivers design outputs ranging from studies to detailed design for permanent and temporary works, focusing on sustainable, safe-by-design solutions with a strong constructability ethos. Working within a multi-disciplinary team on Water Sector projects, you will provide civil and structural advice, analysis, calculations, reports and specifications. As a Principal Engineer, you will lead key design elements, manage technical resources, and ensure delivery meets Costain and client expectations. The role requires significant technical interface management, driving delivery, ensuring compliance and quality, and resolving complex challenges. You will lead projects and sub-tasks from a technical perspective and communicate designs effectively to BIM teams, other disciplines, construction personnel and stakeholders. You will also support and guide junior team members, challenge and deliver value engineering solutions, and confidently represent Costain in front of clients.

Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing C&S discipline technical input for projects and proposals, including preparation, checking and approval of engineering documentation
- Organising discipline staff, allocating work and ensuring delivery against plan
- Mentoring and developing graduates and less experienced engineers
- Producing high-quality C&S engineering deliverables to schedule, budget and client satisfaction
- Ensuring compliance with national and international codes of practice, legislation and company/client standards
- Preparing installation scopes of work and supporting constructability and delivery specialists
- Reviewing supplier quotations and preparing technical bid assessments
Additional tasks may include:
- Defining client requirements
- Planning and delivering project tasks undertaken by the C&S team
- Designing new structures, assessing historic structures, and checking and approving subordinate C&S documentation
- Developing specifications and sub-contract scopes of work including GI/SI contamination scopes
- Conducting optioneering assessments, defining scopes of work, supporting estimates and business development
- Providing advice on specialist discipline matters related to nuclear sector requirements, regulations, technologies and best practice
- Supporting project management in identifying change, progress reporting, and tracking issues, risks and resolutions

Experience
- Significant and proven experience within the UK water industry at all project lifecycle stages
- Good knowledge of design working practices and installation requirements across various industries
- Extensive knowledge of UK legislation and standards
- Awareness of risk identification, quantification, management and HSE requirements
- Desirable: Experience with UK water industry standards and processes, new and historic structures, optioneering assessments, business development, leading small teams, knowledge of common contract forms, project and requirements management experience

About you
- Confident and authoritative client-facing professional
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills
- Ability to manage complex technical interfaces and deliver high-quality outputs
- Proactive in driving delivery and resolving challenges
- Committed to sustainable and safe-by-design engineering solutions

Qualifications
- Essential: Minimum BEng in Civil or Structural Engineering
- Chartered status with ICE or IStructE
- CSCS or CCNSG certification
- Desirable: Additional technically focused qualifications or training