Costain
Principal Constructability Engineer
7 days ago
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Location:
United Kingdom
Work mode:
Remote, Hybrid
Published on:
13 October 2026
What they need
As a Principal Constructability Engineer within CEL our in house engineering services team, you will be responsible for delivering key elements of constructability work on commissions, primarily through the management and delivery of key documents and processes to deliver to Costain and Client promises. Our consultancy team is involved at early design stages to help the client and design teams understand the engineering and construction considerations to enable safer schemes to be developed that also reduce the impact of infrastructure projects on the environment.
As a Principal Constructability Engineers, you have a deep knowledge of your own discipline and clear appreciation of the impact on related disciplines and can train or mentor junior knowledge staff.
You will be the client / designers facing Costain representative and must manage external relationships ensuring deliverables are submitted as planned to the expected standard.
Home based, hybrid role, typically 1 day a month in London Office – with a blended approach to dynamic and home/office working to support wellbeing.
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Responsibilities: Expert level contributor, source of expertise for complex problems in constructability:
Responsible for the development of first-class technical constructability advice to clients and designers and delivering value by consistently being the best at what we do.
Manage on-going relationships with internal and external client teams.
Main contributor to the management of constructability and delivery strategy development on behalf of Costain Engineering Limited.
Resolve complex issues in own specialised areas reaching out to senior company experts and solves complex problems utilising innovative thinking.
Deliver outputs to agreed schedules and standards
Participate in team meetings, sharing knowledge and proactively challenge constructability solutions
Trains and mentors’ junior knowledge workers
Thought Leading
Assists setting the strategy for commissions
Thought leader for expertise / input in complex Documents / Processes / Techniques across all commissions.
Accountable for setting the required standards of the Documents / Processes / Techniques across multiple commissions and manages its progress and submission
Leads the development of Documents / Processes / Techniques in complex commissions
Lead reviewer of deliverables.
Guides / mentors team members within the commissions they are working on.
Assists in obtaining future commissions including proposals / bids.
Supports the team management.
Managing / Independent Delivery
Manages the agreed strategy for the commission.
Responsible for the Documents / Processes / Techniques within a commission, inputs key information and manages its progress through to review and submission.
Undertakes works independently and assists others in contributing to the Documents / Processes / Techniques.
Reviewer of deliverables.
Mentored on complex Document / Process / Techniques and delivery of complex commissions.
Ability / Significant Independent Contributor
Main contributor / author to the Documents / Processes / Techniques within a commission.
Works closely other contributors and gains approvals from commission manager / thought leader.
Mentored to develop skills to ensure the minimum standards of a Document / Process / Commissions / Technique are met.
Knowledge / Supporting / Contributor
Contributor / author to Documents / Processes / / Techniques within a commission.
Works closely with main contributor of the commission
Mentored to develop their contributions to Documents / Processes / Techniques used within a commission.
Appreciation
Gaining an understanding of new Document / Process / Techniques.
Qualifications: Significant and relevant industry including site delivery experience.
Degree level (or equivalent) in discipline specific Engineering.
- Chartered Engineer in discipline specific Engineering.
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