The posting
Job Description
As a proud Armed Forces Covenant signatory, we recognise and value the breadth of experience gained through military service. We actively support Service Leavers, Veterans, Reservists and military families as they transition into fulfilling civilian careers. You will become part of a strong and growing Armed Forces Community that is already making a meaningful difference across our business.
Costain have won extensive work across the water sector to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We are seeking expressions of interest from candidates wishing to develop their careers in the water sector and join our growing delivery team on the United Utilities AMP8 Framework. We are offering a 4-week work experience for military leavers with the view of long-term permanent opportunities within Costain.
Responsibilities
We are particularly interested to hear from candidates of all levels who would be interested to build a future career within Planning and Project Controls.
As a Planning Engineer you will be a fundamental part of the team, working with stakeholders to develop and manage programmes , completing updates and reporting both internally and externally.
We are looking for Candidates with the following transferrable skills:
- Able to lead people and commitment to a team
- Passionate about their role and personal development
- Attention to detail and commitment to quality and seeing things through relentless and focused
- Technical problem-solving ability and critical thinking
- Proactive work ethic and comfortable in challenging the team to implement savings to the programme and explore and propose mitigations
- High level of numeracy and excellent analytical skills
- Excellent MS Office skills
Please register your interest and we look forward to speaking with you about our opportunities.
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Qualifications
- Minimum GCSEs (or equivalent) in Maths
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.
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