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We have an exciting opportunity to join our leading-edge Graduate programme for a Civil Engineer starting in September 2024.

Costain’s Defence & Nuclear Sector is an important and expanding area of our business, where we are growing and maintaining a workforce which delivers the highest levels of skills and capabilities. In the defence arena we work in partnership with UK agencies to support the Country’s strategic defence capabilities and maintain the UK’s nuclear deterrent programme. Alongside this, we work in the civil nuclear sector to ensure long-term, low carbon energy security. This encompasses all aspects of civil nuclear, including new build, operation of the current UK nuclear generation infrastructure, and the decommissioning of old and obsolete facilities.

Key tasks & responsibilities

  • Supporting the management of site operations, to ensure safety, quality, cost effectiveness, timely production and customer satisfaction
  • Planning and sequencing of operations, including writing method statements and risk assessments, and procuring sub-contractor, labour, plant and material resources
  • Briefing teams
  • Implementing operational quality control including setting out and QA processes
  • Commercial management
  • Design and design management
  • Work winning
  • Identifying opportunities to improve the sustainability considerations in our projects including delivering low carbon solutions in our design processes
  • Seek to improve existing ways of working, by finding efficiencies in processes and automating design deliverables

Costain Graduate Development Programme

The programme will focus on helping you to grow your personal and leadership skills, alongside business and of course, the technical skills you will learn day-to-day on the job. The programme is delivered in a variety of formats throughout the 2 years and will allow you to establish a network of contacts that will help and support you through your first 2 years and beyond.

We expect some of our graduates to rotate after a period of 8-12 months, to another project/sector of the business to fully understand the depth and breadth of the services offered by the company.

Our line managers are fully supportive of the Graduate Development Programme and will be involved in helping you along the way. In addition to the programme, we offer mentoring and support in every area of work, as well as a structured training programme to enable graduates to work towards achieving Chartership. Graduates may have the opportunity to work on a number of exciting and progressive projects around the UK during the 2-year period across different sectors that we work in.