Graduate Project Controls Programme

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Graduate Project Controls Programme

Purpose of the role:

Be passionate about your field, have excellent written and verbal communication skills, high attention to detail, enjoy building networks and working with others and have a willingness to learn and experience new opportunities in a multidisciplinary environment. Within our encouraging environment, your initiative and desire to learn will result in outstanding career opportunities. 

Key skills and responsibilities:

• Assisting in the development of scope and Work Breakdown Structures 
• Establishment, management and reporting through Costain project controls systems 
• Prepare project reports including financial, resourcing and schedule analysis 
• Generating and maintaining schedules in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project 
• Assisting in the development of project proposal estimates. 
• Potential travel opportunities to work on interstate/international projects 

Costain's Graduate Development Programme: 

The programme will focus on helping you to grow your personal and leadership skills, alongside business and of course, the technical skills you will learn day-to-day on the job. 

The programme is delivered in a variety of formats throughout the 2 years and will allow you to establish a network of contacts that will help and support you through your first 2 years and beyond.  

We expect some of our graduates to rotate after a period of 8-12 months, to another project/sector of the business to fully understand the depth and breadth of the services offered by the company.

Our line managers are fully supportive of the Graduate Development Programme and will be involved in helping you along the way. 

In addition to the programme, we offer mentoring and support in every area of work, as well as a structured training programme to enable graduates to work towards achieving Chartership. 

Graduates may have the opportunity to work on a number of exciting and progressive projects around the UK during the 2-year period, in sectors including nuclear, highways, rail, water, airports and tunnels. 

About you: 

• Bachelor’s degree (min 2:1 or equivalent) in Project Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or Civil Engineering is preferred 
• Have passion for Costain's Carbon Net Zero targets 
• Able to demonstrate a keen interest in developing a career in Project Controls 
• Effective decision making and strong verbal and written communication 
• Proactive and driven approach to work and creating success 
• Ability to working in a team of diverse individuals to meet common objectives 
• Buy-in to achieving deadlines set by Clients and Managers 
• Good organisation skills; ability to manage multiple tasks and willingness to ask for help when needed 
• IT proficient 
• A willingness to learn with appropriate instruction 
• Excel at building and maintaining positive relationships 
• The ability to thrive in pressured situations 
• Mobility to work on various projects over the 2-year programme throughout the UK 

Please note that if you are invited to interview, we will require you to produce your passport and/or right to work documentation 

As some of our project sites are based in remote locations, it is worth noting that you will be required to have the ability to travel to site 

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.

How to apply

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