Sub Agent

Costain are the Asset Renewal Partner at Heathrow Airport, an exciting opportunity for Costain and potential candidates looking to grow their experience in infrastructure projects. With work in the terminals, Rail and Road tunnels there are excellent opportunities for candidates to broaden their experience in infrastructure projects. The Asset Renewals Partnership is made of up of programmes and projects varying in value, size and complexity putting the client and the passenger at the heart of everything it delivers. 

The Asset Management and Compliance Programme, the largest programme at Heathrow, involves the replacement or renewal of engineering, technology, and commercial assets across the Heathrow estate; it also ensures that assets are compliant to regulatory or statutory requirements throughout the service offering at the airport. 

Based at Heathrow, the UK’s biggest airport - Come and join a vibrant, dynamic team in a truly unique environment with endless opportunities to diversify your experience and develop your career.

Our partnership at Heathrow continues to grow and as such the Costain Heathrow team are looking for a Sub-Agent / Senior Engineer to manage the H7 Renewals works in the Main CTA Tunnel at Heathrow Airport within the ARP portfolio.

The CTA tunnel is one of Heathrow’s most important assets and links the Central Terminal Area to the M25 and M4 spur to the north. 

The Main CTA tunnel scope involves the delivery of two separate packages. Q6 (Cladding) and H7 renewals. This role is recruiting for the H7 Renewals package, and the successful applicant will lead constructability reviews, the delivery of the package through to close out of assurance and handover. 

One tunnel bore closes each night to allow approximately 4-5 hours of work, whilst the other main tunnel bore operates on contraflow to maintain traffic flow through the night.

The H7 renewals covers the following headline areas and is a group of requirements which fell out of various inspections, PI reports, other observed issues etc. by HAL

• Civils repairs (including steel structure repair and replacement, concrete repairs, water ingress, subsoil drainage, Drainage repairs 

• Portals and Approaches

• Tunnel Accessibility

• Contraflow

• Approach Traffic Signage

• Landscaping 

There will be a requirement for the H7 renewals scope to be delivered in as efficient a manner as possible, whilst maintaining the focus on Q6 cladding. The successful applicant will be reporting to Costain Q6 & H7 PM.

Sub-Agent / Senior Engineer is to work on H7 and liaise with Q6 Agent to fully deconflict, integrate and coordinate both projects. 

Prepare packages, scope, assist the PM and wider team with procurement, programme, planning, preparation of all required documents, and liaise with night shift lead and works manager to ensure the work son nights are completed safely, within budget and on time.

This position offers up the opportunity to demonstrate Costain’s capability and values to grow the Costain account at Heathrow to ensure a future pipeline of work for our organisation and growing talent within the team. 

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Responsibilities 

• Lead a H7 renewals project from the stage in which it is allocated to us to its end point working with the various disciplines, the supply chain and with Heathrow (our partner) 
• Packages manage all the subcontractor 
• Lead the progress meeting with clients providing the weekly progress, and support planning term planning and long term plan.
• Ensure the project and contractual requirements are met while maintaining a strong relationship with our partner.
• Proactively manage the Programme, risks, opportunities and budget 
• Deliver Internal and external reporting with overall responsibility for meeting the performance requirements of the project (s)
• Leading by example in respect of Health, safety and wellbeing,
• Drive efficiency and continual productivity improvements, creating best practise for the team and adding value for our customer.
• Understand and Champion the Heathrow one team ethos.
• Champion Sustainability for all those involved
• Establish clear lines of communications throughout the integrated team, defining roles and responsibilities in order to ensure the efficient use of resources and the delivery of cost-effective solutions.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Logical and concise approach to work  

• Ability to pay close attention to small details that could impact results 

• Effective communication and strong stakeholder management skills 

• Problem solver who is comfortable working others

• Passionate about improving performance in the sector through best practice, process improvements and continuous improvement practices. 

• A good understanding of change processes 

• Good organisational skills and the ability to manage a busy workload, balancing competing priorities and deadlines. 

• Able to work and learn quickly in a fast paced, fun and dynamic environment. 

• Care about doing a great job and exceeding expectations with the quality of what you do. 

• Previous experience of people management on complex/sensitive programmes and have successfully impacted peers/others in order to gain buy-in to enable change to happen

Desirable

• A background in infrastructure projects
• Management of Civils projects
• Worked in Aviation ideally Heathrow 

Qualifications

• Degree or level qualification in Civil Engineering or relevant field
• SMSTS Card
• CSCS Card

Desirable

• First Aid and Mental Health First Aid