Due to continued growth, the position of Planning Engineer has become available to join our successful team based in Dungeness, Kent.
We have a fantastic opportunity on our EDF Project Controls Resource Framework, to be involved in the exciting challenge of project delivery on a generating AGR nuclear power station. As Planning Engineer, you will be responsible for learning to provide planning support, working with Project Managers to develop and manage schedules to incorporate risk, change, resource requirements, and cost.
This role will be site-based.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a career-enhancing project where you will be a welcomed member of the wider team. Costain is looking for skilled people who'll help us shape, create, and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem across the UK. Together we are creating connected sustainable infrastructure to help people and the planet thrive.
This position has a competitive salary dependent on skills and experience, in addition to a fantastic benefits package including pension contributions matched up to 10%.
We have a vibrant, challenging, and growing business, with project environments that provide tremendous opportunities for everybody. We know that by being a more diverse company we will be more innovative, have a greater understanding of our clients’ needs, and will deliver smarter, more inclusive solutions for them. Our goal is to have a workforce that is representative of society and the communities in which we work. As an inclusive, family-friendly employer, we believe that everyone matters, and we are committed to ensuring that everyone has the same opportunities to be able to reach their full potential.
Role Requirements
1. Experience/understanding of Earned Value Analysis and Primavera P6
2. Experience in building cost and resource loaded plans and working across the project lifecycle
3. Must be eligible for CTC level Security Clearance (3 years residency in the UK)
4. Champions Sustainability Safety, Health, and Environment by putting personal safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do and helping the environment and communities to thrive
5. Having integrity by always doing the right thing in the right way
6. Must be customer-focused by striving for excellence through understanding, anticipating, and meeting their needs
For a full job description, please contact careers@costain.com quoting the vacancy number.
About Costain
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.
Your application
Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: careers@costain.com.
We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background, and physical or neurological disabilities.
We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working, such as working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.
Right to Work & Security Checks
Understandably, given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.
For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully completed all stages of the vetting process.
Closing date
Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.
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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.
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