[Hiring] Lead CAD/BIM Revit Engineer @Costain Group

Role Description

The Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) project currently involves the planning, design and construction of circa 320km of new strategic, large diameter, clean water interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure across Anglian Water’s region. The SPA Alliance is also taking on responsibility for the future interconnector pipelines, a further 260km of strategic interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure. This role will be remote and be a full-time, fixed-term contract until December 2027.

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.

  • Lead the development of MEP, process, civils Non-Infra, and structural Revit models.
  • Approve model geometry, metadata, and model maturity progression.
  • Create and maintain Revit families, schedules, templates, and discipline libraries.
  • Conduct technical reviews on models produced by others before issue.
  • Lead Non-Infra modelling work allocation and planning across multiple work packages.
  • Own and maintain Non-Infra Revit modelling procedures, ensuring compliance across the team.
  • Manage Revit model QA/QC, including model audits, clash resolution, and quality gates.
  • Proactively identify modelling risks and escalate/mitigate early.
  • Lead the integration of Safety in Design (SiD) information within Revit models.
  • Ensure models include maintenance zones, hazard tagging, temporary works information where applicable.
  • Lead cross-discipline coordination workshops for Non-Infra assets.
  • Act as the key liaison between process, mechanical, electrical, structural, civil Non-Infra designers and BIM teams.
  • Provide leadership for the Non-Infra Revit working group.

Qualifications

  • Professional registration or working towards IEng or CEng (desirable).

Requirements

  • Demonstrates compliance with the organisation's business ethics, a respectful attitude to others within the alliance, Anglian Water and customers, the need to protect our reputation, and integrity.
  • Demonstrable experience leading Revit modelling on complex water/wastewater or process engineering projects.
  • Strong knowledge of Revit MEP, Revit Structures, Process Plant modelling, and multi-disciplinary interfaces.
  • Proficiency in model federation, clash detection, and model validation.
  • Experience in progressive assurance and digital delivery compliance.
  • Influences colleagues using sound advice to get the best outcomes.
  • Actively realises project opportunities and mitigates project risks.
  • Understands the overall project affordability and actively works to improve the commercial performance.
  • Understands individual CDM responsibilities.
  • Applies health, safety, and welfare practices to their work.
  • Continuously strives to improve their engineering skills and ability.
  • Contributes to the development of engineering documents, drawings, and 3D models.
  • Actively seeks and embraces innovation concepts to improve efficiency.

Company Description

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. We do share individual feedback following an interview.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose 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: Disability Confident .

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