Skip to content

Open nowPosted 23 days ago

Commissioning Engineer

Costain Group144 open roles

Where
Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Work mode
On site
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowCommissioning EngineerCostain Group · Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Costain Group's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

13.3% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Costain Group postings stay open a median of 14 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.6%3 days
  3. 13.3%7 days
  4. 21.3%14 days
  5. 35.7%30 days
  6. 59.1%60 days
This job: posted 23 days ago

Costain Group median: 14 days open

The posting

Job Description

Costain have won extensive work across the water sector to support the AMP 8 investment cycle.

We have been appointed by United Utilities as one of 7 partners to the Enterprise, delivering £5.5bn of projects in the Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8) between 2025 – 2030, and AMP 9 (2030 – 2035). Our scope is to provide project management, design, construction and commissioning services on design and build schemes throughout the North West and Cumbria region covered by United Utilities. Projects vary in value covering both infrastructure and non-infrastructure assets on water and wastewater sites with wider Enterprise partners

The Commissioning Engineer will be responsible for planning, coordinating and delivering commissioning activities across water and wastewater treatment assets, ensuring systems are safely commissioned, tested and handed over to the client in accordance with project requirements, specifications and regulatory standards.

Working closely with project delivery, design, construction, MEICA and client teams, you will play a key role in taking projects from construction completion through testing, commissioning and operational handover.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and deliver project-specific commissioning plans, programmes and strategies
  • Lead commissioning activities from mechanical completion through to final handover
  • Coordinate commissioning activities across MEICA, process, electrical, mechanical and civil interfaces
  • Review designs, specifications, drawings and commissioning requirements to ensure they are deliverable
  • Develop and manage commissioning schedules, test plans, inspection and test records
  • Work closely with construction and engineering teams to ensure systems are ready for commissioning
  • Identify commissioning constraints, risks and interfaces and develop appropriate mitigation plans
  • Coordinate with water company clients, operational teams, subcontractors, suppliers and specialist commissioning partners
  • Ensure commissioning activities are undertaken safely and in accordance with relevant legislation, standards and project procedures
  • Support the resolution of technical issues identified during testing and commissioning
  • Maintain accurate commissioning documentation, records and evidence
  • Support the preparation of operation and maintenance information and final handover documentation
  • Promote a strong right-first-time approach to commissioning and handover.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

  • Previous experience in commissioning preferably within the water / wastewater sector
  • Good knowledge of water treatment processes (e.g., filtration, pumping, disinfection, sludge treatment)
  • Experience with MEICA systems and process control (SCADA/PLC)
  • In-depth understanding of health, safety, and environmental regulations
  • Strong stakeholder engagement skills
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously
  • Experience on large-scale infrastructure or utility projects
  • Familiarity with UK water industry standards (e.g. AMP programmes)
  • Knowledge of commissioning digital tools and data-driven performance monitoring

Qualifications

  • Degree/equivalent in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or related discipline)
  • Chartered Engineer status (or working towards it)

#LI-JA1

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

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Costain Group's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.
  3. We apply on Costain Group's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.
  4. Every reply, sorted

    Costain Group's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.
  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.