Senior Materials Engineer - London, United Kingdom - COSTAIN GROUP PLC

COSTAIN GROUP PLC

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Working within the site laboratory, which involves testing of bulk construction materials including concrete, aggregates and bituminous materials.

Flexible working:
We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need. This might be part-time, remote working, or compressed hours for example. Anyone who applies for a role can ask about flexibility at interview. In return, we will explore what is possible for the role.

Main Responsibilities

Carry out testing on site and in the laboratory as required by the contract
Maintaining high standards of work and compliance with UKAS accreditation requirements
Comply with the site quality system for materials testing laboratory, including materials reporting
Deliver results by deadlines as required by the Laboratory Manager
Maintain equipment calibrations and notify the Lab Manager of any defects requiring attention
To plan and organise junior technician's workload.
Train junior technician' on tests and calibration methods
Previous experience of working within a busy UKAS accredited laboratory
Relevant CSCS Card
Safe use of coring rig, an advantage
NVQ3 or equivalent an advantage
SMSTS or SSSTS an advantage

Geology degree would be highly beneficial

Experience:

Experienced in construction materials specifications and standards particularly earthworks, aggregates, concrete, and pavement construction
Knowledge of ISO 1702
Extensive knowledge of site and laboratory tests
Supervisory and management skills would be useful

Misc:
Full valid UK driving licence (preferably with categories B + E for towing)

Basic IT skills

Flexibility to work out of hours including night shifts and weekend working as required

Compliance reporting to Lab Manager and site teams

Proactive in identifying problems / defects

Work in difficult conditions and to deadlines.

About Costain

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.

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:

Right to Work & Security Checks
Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you.

For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we'll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance).

To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

Closing date

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
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