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This is an excellent opportunity where you will hold the Principal CandI Engineer position on a major Energy project. Within this sector, Costain deliver projects to industry leading clients across a number of phases. Whether it be a concept study, FEED or EPCm project, you will work as part of multi-discipline team to deliver best in class engineering on time and to budget. Our pipeline provides the opportunities to work in a variety of areas from brownfield Oil and Gas assets to cutting edge Hydrogen production and storage. We also offer the opportunity to work in our other sectors such as Nuclear and Defence or Transport. Costain provide a collaborative and supportive working environment to enable our people to thrive.Job Description

This is an excellent opportunity where you will hold the Principal CandI Engineer position on a major Energy project. Within this sector, Costain deliver projects to industry leading clients across a number of phases. Whether it be a concept study, FEED or EPCm project, you will work as part of multi-discipline team to deliver best in class engineering on time and to budget. Our pipeline provides the opportunities to work in a variety of areas from brownfield Oil and Gas assets to cutting edge Hydrogen production and storage. We also offer the opportunity to work in our other sectors such as Nuclear and Defence or Transport. Costain provide a collaborative and supportive working environment to enable our people to thrive.

This is a hybrid role with 2/3 days based at the Manchester office with the option for dynamic working.

Senior Engineers will be considered for the position. Responsibilities and experience requirements will be reduced accordingly with job role requirements being addressed by a gap analysis and development plan

Responsibilities

This is an exciting and challenging role where you will perform or support the Lead Design engineer position on one or more Projects. A range of projects from Concept Studies through to Detailed Design provide a variety of interesting work. Industries can range across Water, Transport and Energy including Green Energy, Nuclear and Oil and Gas

As a client facing CandI Engineer, your responsibilities could involve:

Responsibility for instrument discipline technical input for projects and/or proposals; including preparation, checking and/or approval of engineering documentationOrganising discipline staff, allocating work and ensuring delivery against planMentoring and developing graduates and less experienced engineersProduction of high-quality CandI engineering deliverables to schedule, budget and client satisfactionEnsuring all applicable national and international codes of practice, legislation and company/client standards and procedures are complied withPreparing equipment and materials requisitions for control systems, safety systems, analyser houses, field instrumentation and other instrument equipmentPreparing installation scopes of worksReviewing supplier’s quotations and preparing technical bid assessments

More Specific Tasks Could Include

Full life-cycle development (hardware and software) of either control or protection systemsSoftware qualification of SMART devices and PLCsFunctional Safety determination (both probabilistic and deterministic)Preparation of CandI equipment datasheets and specificationsProduction and modification of CandI safety cases and / or cyber security cases

Qualifications

Degree in relevant engineering discipline (e.g. Electronic / Electrical / Control Engineering) Apprenticeships may be considered

Chartered or Incorporated engineer status with a relevant professional body or evidence of being close to gaining these professional titles

knowledge of design working practices and installation requirements of the discipline across a range of industries.

15 years engineering experience in the Oil and Gas, Nuclear and/or Water sectors

Extensive knowledge of UK legislation and standards

Competence in the specification and design of Safety Instrumented systems in line with IEC 61511 and IEC 61508

Competence in the requirements for installation of instrumentation in process plants involving potentially explosive areas

Experience in the requirements for CE marking of plant and equipment, including ATEX, PED, Low Voltage Directive, Machinery Directive and EMC Compliance

Awareness of risk identification, quantification, management and of HSE requirements

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.

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