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Engineering Manager
Costain —King's Lynn
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Engineering Manager

Costain -
King's Lynn

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time

Qualifications

Procurement
Engineering
CSCS
Contracts
Construction

Full job description

Costain have a unique opportunity for an Engineering Manager to join our West Winch Housing Access Road (WWHAR) for Norfolk County Council project.

Costain has been appointed to design and construct the West Winch Housing Access Road (WWHAR) for Norfolk County Council (NCC). The project is in 3 stages

Stage 1 will involve detailed design, early contractor involvement (ECI) and on-site investigations, including gaining approvals from stakeholders
Stage 2 will be to construct and handover the works into operations
Stage 3 will be to maintain the environmental mitigation and biodiversity nett gain planting

The project team will mobilise in Stage 1 to lead the design and ECI with a whole project lifecycle approach. The team will deliver a design that enables a Safe, Efficient, Right First Time construction and efficient handover into maintenance, for both NCC and NH assets.

The new housing access road will connect the A10 to the A47 to the west of West Winch. Works will include

2.5km of new single carriageway associated active travel routes and roundabouts forming access to new developments and onto the A10.
A new structure over the housing access road and modification of an existing structure on the A47
Management of groundwater to enable installation of the drainage
Management of utility works
Modifications to the existing A10 improve active travel

The NCC project will also include works to enhance the A47 near to Kings Lynn, requiring 800m of dualling of the A47, a new roundabout to connect to the housing access road and reconfiguration of the existing Hardwick Interchange – all National Highways (NH) assets.

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Responsibilities: The Engineering Manager will be accountable for all aspects of engineering associated with delivering the WWHAR throughout the entire project lifecycle, from detailed design through to handover (to NCC and NH). Working directly under the Project Director as part of the Senior Management Team, you will:

lead the detailed design to ensure design is delivered by the design teams, on time and to a high right first time standard, so designs can be approved by the relevant stakeholders without iteration, and in conjunction with the Construction Manager ensure said design is suitable for construction and that will be adopted by the asset owners.

provide technical leadership and manage site engineering activities to ensure all elements are delivered safely, to the required quality, on time and within budget, all in line with the scheme design and associated highway specifications and in compliance with planning constraints.

align the designer and sub-contracted contractor designed elements.

Further develop the groundwater strategy to enable consents to be granted and works to be constructed

lead a team comprising technical leads for managing design compliance and change, temporary works coordination and design, digital modelling and information management (BIM), materials management, quality assurance and handover.

work alongside the site delivery and supervisory team and other disciplines - SHE, Stakeholder, Commercial etc.

engage with the client team, including the Technical Advisor, NEC Supervisor as well as stakeholders from National Highways to foster good relationships and enable successful handover of the scheme into operation and maintenance.

ensure all elements are delivered safely, to the required quality, all in line with the scheme design and associated specifications and in compliance with the planning conditions, environmental and stakeholder constraints.

Provide technical engineering leadership and for all aspects of delivery.

Ensure all works are carried out in accordance with the design information, planning constraints, relevant technical specifications and Costain Way guidance.

Put safety above all else and lead by example, for example by ensuring temporary works are correctly designed, checked and implemented.

Promote a Right First-Time approach to quality to avoid rework.

Manage a team of technical design management, engineering and quality assurance staff, including TWC, lifting AP and electrical AP.

Collaborate with other members of the project leadership team to ensure safe, efficient design, delivery and handover

Provide planning and procurement support where required.

Knowledge Skills and Experience

Essential:

Extensive experience in construction delivery with a note worthy proportion spent in management position (e.g. Agent/Senior Agent)

Knowledge and experience of relevant design solutions and standards (Specification for Highways Works), common highways construction techniques and related procedures

Experience of working within a Principal Designer and Principal Contractor environment (i.e. where Costain undertakes these roles)

Knowledge and experience of Temporary Works procedures

Desirable:

Understanding of National Highways’ handover processes

Local authority and SRN environment design/construction experience

Experience of gaining and discharging consents from Statutory Environmental Bodies

Experience of gaining design approvals from relevant authorities and discharge of planning conditions

Knowledge of pavement design and stabilisation

Knowledge of construction contract law and forms of NEC contract through formal training

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.

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

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