Principal Constructability Engineer

Overview

As a Principal Constructability Engineer, you provide expert constructability guidance to clients and design teams, shaping delivery strategies and ensuring high-quality outputs. You manage client and designer relationships and mentor junior staff, while driving safety-focused schemes with reduced environmental impact. This hybrid, home-based role includes occasional London office work and cross-functional collaboration to meet project promises. You’ll lead the development of key documents and processes across commissions, delivering measurable value.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert constructability advice and deliver high-quality technical outputs
• Manage ongoing client and internal relationships to ensure timely delivery
• Lead development of constructability strategy and documents across Costain commissions
• Resolve complex issues through innovative thinking and senior collaboration
• Deliver outputs to agreed schedules and standards; participate in knowledge sharing
• Train and mentor junior staff; lead reviewers on deliverables
• Set standards for documents/processes/techniques across multiple commissions
• Lead involvement in proposal/bid activities and future commissions
• Oversee independent delivery and progress of documents/processes within a commission
• Support team management and guidance within commissions

Key requirements

• Significant industry experience including site delivery
• Degree in Engineering (discipline-specific)
• Chartered Engineer in discipline-specific Engineering
• Strong client-facing and relationship-management capabilities
• Ability to work independently and deliver across complex commissions
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Proven track record in developing and reviewing technical documents/processes

• Stakeholder management
• Mentoring and coaching
• Thought leadership
• Constructability expertise
• Development and review of documents/processes/techniques
• Commission leadership and delivery strategy

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