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Costain Group PLC

Civil & Structural Engineer

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Contract type:

Permanent

Location:

Manchester, UK

Work mode:

Hybrid

Published on:

17 September 2026

What they need


With continued growth in all of our sectors, Costain is hiring for a Civil & Structural Engineer to join our multi-discipline engineering and design team.

This role is within the Civil and Structural Design Discipline within CEL. Costain’s multi-discipline engineering and design team deliver design mainly across Costain projects. The design outputs range from studies to detailed design for permanent and temporary works. This team focus on the delivery of sustainable, safe-by-design outputs with a strong constructability ethos.

The fundamental requirement of this role is to deliver civil and structural analysis, calculations, reports and specifications for projects in a range of sectors, including water, rail and highways.

Rail experience is desired as well as suitable permanent works experience designing foundations, fencing, ducting, drainage, highways for substations or similar.

This is a hybrid role. Your office will be in Manchester, office attendance typically up to 3 days per week, with remote working to promote well being and occasional visits to other offices and sites.

RESPONSIBILITIES Key Responsibilities You Will:

  • Prepare preliminary and detailed design analysis, calculations, specifications and related documentation for civil and structural temporary and permanent works
  • Communicate designs effectively to the BIM teams
  • Challenge and deliver value engineering solutions
  • Be supervised and mentored by our senior engineers in a friendly teamwork environment

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

  • Good general IT skills, MS Office Suite
  • Good problem solving, presentation and communications (written and verbal) skills
  • Some UK experience in design of foundations, drainage, highways, steel and concrete an advantage
  • Have UK engineering experience from previous employers or work placements
  • Be able to accurately report progress / risk / opportunities / change etc
  • Be digitally proficient in multiple design systems / software
  • Be able to lead design meetings, deliver presentations and groups
  • Be passionate for sustainable design
  • Good organisation, communication, and time management skills
  • Eligibility to obtain Security Clearance - UK Citizen or UK resident for minimum of 5 years.

Desirable

  • Mobility to work on various projects throughout the UK
  • Have site or construction experience
  • Rail experience is desired as well as suitable permanent works experience designing foundations, fencing, ducting, drainage, highways for substations or similar.

Essential QUALIFICATIONS

  • Minimum BEng Civil or Structural Engineering

Desirable

  • Additional technically focussed qualifications / training
  • Safety passport or similar

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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