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 are currently sourcing candidates who have recently qualified with a degree in a Safety, Health and Environmental related subject and who are looking to build their knowledge and experience in exciting and varied sectors across the construction industry.
Costain offers an excellent opportunity for SHE Graduate’s to work across numerous sectors including Water, Rail, Highways, Integrated Transport, Aviation, Nuclear, Energy and Oil and Gas. This allows for fast progression and experiences meeting different clients, contractors and cultures in different locations across the United Kingdom in cities and rural areas.
As well as the Costain Graduate Scheme the SHE Team offers the SHE Academy which is a mixtures of SHE trainee’s, apprentices and Graduates. The group meeting quarterly at different locations; twice at Costain projects and twice at external companies to understand how other industries operate and understand SHE.
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, this will include specific technical training in relation to your specialised discipline.
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
*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
We are looking for candidates who are willing to locate to a variety of locations across the UK where they can develop and extend their skills and capabilities in this exciting discipline.
*Please note that final locations for the roles will be discussed at interview and finalised, depending on the candidate and business need at the time.
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.
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