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Job Description
Costain are working closely with Northumbrian Water Group to help shape and deliver its strategic AMP8 infrastructure upgrade programme.
Under the new industry leading collaborative partnership, the Living Water Enterprise (LWE), our role is to upgrade Northumbrian Water’s wastewater and water treatment infrastructure and deliver social value by safeguarding the environment while also ensuring that customers continue to have access to high quality drinking water throughout the North East region.
We are now seeking expressions of interest from candidates wishing to develop their careers in the water sector and join our growing delivery team in the North East.
We are particularly interested to hear from candidates of all levels across various disciplines including:
- MEICA – Mechanical/Electrical Engineers
- Project Management – Construction Manager, Project Manager
- Site Delivery – Site/Senior Site Engineer, Site Agent, General Forepersons, Works Manager
- Commercial – Quantity Surveyor, Senior Quantity Surveyor
- SHE – SHE/Senior SHE Advisor
Please register your interest and we look forward to speaking with you about our opportunities as they become available early 2027.
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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.
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