Job Description

When taking on one of the many apprenticeships on offer by Costain, you will be supported by your project line manager and team, the Costain Early Careers Team, and the training provider of your academic qualification. The training provider may be a college, a university or even an independent training provider.

You will be supported throughout your apprenticeship by your local team and line manager, and you will be given time to carry out your studies with the provider etc. Your on-the-job training will be in line with the work available on site but will afford the opportunity to ensure that you are given on site experience required to meet the technical and competency levels to achieve your apprenticeship goals.

Click the link for the job description, responsibilities, and qualifications - PRJK01 - Apprentice Project Controls Engineer.pdf

Click the link for the job description, responsibilities, and qualifications - PRJK05 - Project Management Apprentice.pdf

Locations

These roles will be across Costain projects in the north of the UK, mainly located around:

• Manchester
• Liverpool
• Cumbria

*Please indicate the role and location you are interested in by attaching a cover letter to your application

Responsibilities

Responsibilities for an Apprentice Project Controls

• Providing support in planning and scheduling of project activities
• Cost management support for projects
• Cost estimating support to project managers and engineers
• Collating, analysing and presenting project data in reports
• Provide support to document control and project governance
• Developing skills in new software including, Primavera (P6)
• Working towards your formal qualification
• Keeping a work diary outlining your training progress throughout your apprenticeship

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Flexibility to travel to sites across the UK - driving licence preferred or willing to use public transport for travel
• Works well within a team, but equally on your own

Desirable

• A passionate individual looking to undertake an apprenticeship with an award-winning employer
• Has an interest in looking at costs and estimates
• An organised individual that can work well to deadlines
• Someone who is creative, with a keen interest in the latest technology
• Someone that enjoys challenges and problem solving in their day-to-day work
• Communicating clearly, both written and verbally
• Problem solving
• Getting it right the first time, with good attention to detail
• Building and maintaining positive working relationships
• Using a computer and Microsoft software
• Numerate

Responsibilities for an Apprentice Project Manager

With the support of our industry experts, you will learn and gain expertise in, including:

• Project Management: Learn to oversee and drive projects from start to finish.
• Project Controls: Gain insights into managing project budgets, schedules, and resources.
• Quality: Be involved with checking, measuring, and evaluating the quality of your project work against the quality criteria and standards, and taking corrective actions if needed
• Commercial: Ensure that all commercial aspects of the projects under your remit are properly managed and controlled. Then supporting your manager to ensure that the commercial strategy is developed and delivered in accordance with the requirements of the business.
• Construction: Get hands-on experience in the execution and operational phases of projects.
• Throughout the training programme and in your career, you will be an integral part to the success of pioneering projects

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• An organised individual that can work well in teams and to deadlines.
• Someone who is creative with a keen interest in the latest technology.
• Someone that enjoys challenges and problem solving in their day-to-day work Communicating clearly, both written and verbally.
• Building and maintaining positive working relationships

Desirable

• Appropriate Members of the APM or similar
• MS Office Skills for Business

Qualifications

Essential

• Minimum of 5 GCSEs Grade 4/C in Mathematics, English Language & or Science/Engineering subject
• Vocational equivalents at level 3 or higher will also be considered as equivalent to UCAS points
• Functional Skills Level 2 will also be considered as equivalent to GCSE Grade 4/C
  
  Desirable
• Minimum of 96 UCAS Points, at A Level / T-Level, all subjects considered

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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