Head of Mechanical & Electrical
About this role
We are excited to announce a leadership opportunity for a Head of Mechanical & Electrical to join CEL - Costain’s in-house Engineering & Design Services team, this role will oversee and lead the Mechanical, Electrical, Piping, and Control & Instrumentation disciplines supporting secured frameworks and confirmed demand, leveraging Costain’s robust pipeline of work across various sectors.
As we pursue our strategic growth ambitions to become an engineering-led business, this role will lead the mechanical, piping, electrical, and C&I engineering disciplines within Costain’s in-house Engineering Services team.
This high profile leadership position requires a proven technical background and experience in managing large design teams. The ideal applicant will have a proven track record of delivering complex projects from a design perspective and should possess experience with major engineering design consultants to understand pricing and professional services management.
Candidates should have experience of managing and growing large teams, reviewing technical compliance, finding alternative technical solutions in buildings and detail design across all Mechanical, Electrical, Piping, and Control & Instrumentation disciplines, including transmission if possible.
The base office will be located at Aviator Way, Manchester for those in the North or St Mary’s Axe, London for those in the South. This is a hybrid role with a flexible approach to home working to promote wellbeing.
You will be responsible for managing a multi-disciplinary engineering team delivering engineering and design services across a range of complex projects within the UK Energy, Water, Nuclear, Defence and Transportation sectors.
You will work closely with our other engineering disciplines and sector facing teams throughout the project lifecycle from tendering and preconstruction through to construction and handover.
The role will report directly to the Group Director of Engineering Services and offers a hybrid working arrangement predominantly based in London or Manchester with an occasional requirement to travel to project locations throughout the UK depending on contract needs.
At Costain, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If you’re passionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our team, we’d love to hear from you—even if you don’t tick every box. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need.
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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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Company at a glance
Costain helps to improve people’s lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet thrive. We shape, create and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets.
We are organised around our customers anticipating and solving their challenges and helping to improve performance. By bringing together our unique mix of construction, consulting and digital experts we engineer and deliver sustainable, efficient and practical solutions.
Our ambition is to become a net zero business by 2035, while enhancing biodiversity and natural capital, and we have plans in place to deliver this. We are committed to procure responsibly and to be an inclusive and accessible business for all, enabling us to be our best while focusing on the outcomes that we deliver for people and planet.
At Costain, we have a vibrant, challenging and growing business – an environment that provides tremendous opportunities for everybody. We're looking for curious, collaborative and courageous people who'll help transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem across the UK. For more information about our careers go to www.costain.com/careers
Today, we employ around 3,500 people and have been named in the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2023.
Top Benefits
- Hybrid working arrangement
- Flexible working
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