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Quality Engineer

Costain Group PLC Manchester, England, United Kingdom

onsitefull-time
Posted Feb 18, 2026

Role & seniority: Quality Engineer (role specified; seniority not stated)

Stack/tools: Quality assurance/quality control; compliance with project specifications and standards; site inspections and documentation; coordination with highways construction activities (drainage, lighting, motorway technology, signage, signalling)

Top 3 responsibilities

  1. Ensure effective performance of all quality activities against project specifications, standards, and compliance requirements

  2. Lead inspections, audits, and non-conformance management; implement corrective actions

  3. Maintain and coordinate QA/QC documentation, reports, and liaison with construction teams to support delivery

Must-have skills

  • Proven experience in quality engineering/QC on large infrastructure or highways projects

  • Knowledge of QA/QC processes, inspections, audits, and non-conformance handling

  • Familiarity with highway-related disciplines (drainage, lighting, signalling, asset systems) and regulatory standards

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with digital quality tools or asset optimisation in civil projects

  • Degree or equivalent in engineering or a related field

  • Stakeholder liaison and coordination across multi-discipline teams

  • Location & work type: Greater Manchester; on-site involvement within a large highways construction project

Full Description

Costain has been appointed as Delivery Integration Partner by National Highways (NH) for delivery of the £240m improvement of the Simister Island M60/M62/M66 interchange (M60 Junction 18), north of Manchester. As Delivery Integration Partner, Costain will overhaul the busy junction involving complex traffic management to keep tens of thousands of vehicles moving whilst construction takes place.

The works consist of

  • A new free flow ‘northern loop’ link road to take drivers directly from M60 eastbound to M60 southbound without exiting the motorway
  • M66 mainline southbound widening and southbound slip road realignment to allow for construction of the northern loop
  • A widened connector road from M60 northbound to M60 westbound – replacing the current single lane with two lanes
  • Adding an extra lane in each direction on the M60 Junctions 17 to 18 (increasing from 4 to 5 lanes) while retaining the hard shoulders
  • Upgrades to drainage, lighting, motorway technology, signage and signalling.
  • New opportunity for a Quality Engineer to join a large scale Highways project in Greater Manchester. The role of Quality Engineer is to ensure the effective performance of all quality activities against the compliance requirements of project specifications and standards
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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.

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