• Job Description

  Req#: req7027

  Due to growth, we are looking for a Solution Owner (Energy Transition) to join our vibrant team based in Manchester, London or Maidenhead.

  As a Solution Owner – Energy Transition, you will focus on the emerging markets associated with the decarbonisation agenda for example H2, CO2, sustainable aviation fuels. You will cultivate deep insights in the Energy Transition space and will convert these to tangible opportunities and successful contracts in line with the sector’s three year business plan.

  Costain’s Energy team improves people’s lives by solving our client’s complex energy challenges through excellence in engineering and delivery. We support clients through the whole project lifecycle, from identification of a problem and concept development, through design and into delivery. We have a rich heritage spanning over 70 years in the sector and we are now applying our expertise to the pressing priorities of the current age. There has never been a more exciting time to join our team. We are gearing up for growth across our target markets of Transition, Resilience and Connectivity and this has led us to restructure our business winning activities, leading to the creation of exciting new roles of “Solution Owners”.

  The Business Winning team will be responsible for all work winning across the sector, from concept through to contract. The team will adopt a solutions mindset – understanding clients’ needs, shaping discussions, offering solutions in line with Strategy and Capabilities across the Costain group, delivering bids and handing over for execution. You will be part of a highly motivated, ambitious team who want to use our talents to make a difference in the world.

  We have a vibrant, challenging and growing business, with a work environment that provides tremendous opportunities for everybody. We know that by being a more diverse company we will be more innovative, have a greater understanding of our clients’ needs and will deliver smarter, more inclusive solutions for them. Our goal is to have a workforce that is representative of society and the communities in which we work. As an inclusive, family friendly employer we believe that everyone matters, and we are committed to ensuring that everyone has the same opportunities to be able to reach their full potential.

  Role Requirement

  • Degree in relevant discipline, 10 to 15 years experience (desirable). Hold or seek Membership of Professional Industry Bodies (IChemE, Energy Institute, ICE) and actively engage.
  • Strategy & Plans: Develop deep insight into the Energy Transition market in the context of Costain’s services and value proposition within that market. Build these insights into the sector work winning plan.
  • Customers & Markets: Establishes and maintains trusted, long term relationships with clients, strategic partners, and other industry contacts.
  • Delivery: You will lead Costain’s tender responses for Energy Transition, motivating and leading the bid organisation to produce high quality, differentiated, commercially compelling bid submissions for our clients. You will develop and own the client value proposition and win themes working with the team to articulate these within in our written responses and contributing written inputs and content to our proposal responses.
  • Champions Sustainability, Safety, Health and Environment by putting personal safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do and helping the environment and communities to thrive.
  • Having integrity by always doing the right thing in the right way.
  • Must be customer focussed by striving for excellence through understanding, anticipating and meeting their needs.

  Working arrangement: This is a home based, hybrid role with 2-3 days based in our office in London, Manchester or Maidenhead.

  This position has a competitive salary dependent on skills and experience, in addition to a fantastic benefits package including pension contribution matched up to 10%, a day off for your birthday and a dedicated professional development budget.

  For a full job description, please contact careers@costain.com quoting the vacancy number.

  
  

  About Costain

  At Costain, we help to improve people’s lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet to thrive.
  

  We work together to shape, create, and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the UK’s infrastructure ecosystem across energy, water, transportation and defence markets. Through our collaboration with customers, partners, communities, and wider industry we will deliver an infrastructure fit for a better future.
  

  Your application

  Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: careers@costain.com

  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:

  https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/

  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

  Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.
  
  

  
  
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• About the company

  Costain Group plc is a British technology based construction and engineering company headquartered in Maidenhead, England.

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