At a Glance
- Tasks: Create innovative designs for ground engineering projects and collaborate with teams to deliver solutions.
- Company: Leading ground engineering contractor with a commitment to quality and client support.
- Benefits: Attractive salary, extensive benefits, job security, and opportunities for career progression.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with a focus on continuous improvement and mentorship.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the ground engineering sector while working on diverse projects.
- Qualifications: Experience in multi-disciplined piling design and strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 42750 - 52250 £ per year.
This challenging and exciting opportunity requires an individual with a good technical background and demonstrable experience in taking responsibility for producing designs within the piling, foundations and ground engineering sector. Our client is a market-leading ground engineering contractor. Their service offering includes restricted access and open sites and covers all disciplines and techniques for a wide variety of clients and project applications. They complete projects successfully and to the highest standards at all times while adding value to their clients by providing total support from the beginning to the end of each contract.
Due to continued expansion and an abundant pipeline of works, our client is looking to appoint a Senior Design Engineer. The successful candidate must be able to review enquiry documentation to determine the key considerations associated with proposed projects. Our client seeks a high calibre candidate with enthusiasm and drive to make an impact. You must have strong technical acumen coupled with a passion for ground engineering, a professional approach, a keen eye for detail, and excellent communication and IT skills.
The Role
- Provide design solutions from work winning concept phase to practical completion of projects with the goal to win contracts and increase site net margin.
- Deliver competitive ground engineering designs, holistic rather than simply piling elements.
- Accountability for creating designs that are efficient and practical, with input from collaboration with operational teams.
- Provide technical and design support to all departments and be fully integrated with estimating and operational teams.
- Analyse project input to interrogate it, reach an agreement, and integrate into a design solution.
- Design on a performance-based approach, observational rather than compliance.
- Contribute to deliver technical handover to operational teams.
- Define pre-agreed mitigations (anticipation vs reaction).
- Attend external meetings with clients to manage expectations.
- Embrace and promote positively and meet KPIs set out by the Engineering Manager.
- Contribute to the continued improvement of processes within the department.
- Mentor design team members to share ideas and knowledge.
- Conduct benchmarking studies to determine design best practices and future trends.
- Engage feedback from other departments for continuous improvement.
- Ensure design submissions and client communications are of the highest standard of presentation and clarity, submitted on time and contain the key elements required.
The Person
- Experience in the design of multi-disciplined piling techniques for various project applications.
- Proven experience in the use of relevant design industry analysis software is essential.
- Ability to understand and interpret complex data to produce innovative designs.
- High level of commercial awareness.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work well under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a wider team to deliver projects.
- Assist the work winning and project teams with any engineering or buildability issues.
- Ability to prioritise and organise your own work and the work of others effectively.
A highly attractive basic salary (commensurate with experience) plus an extensive benefits package is on offer to the successful candidate, along with longevity and security of work and forward career progression given that our client possesses a significant contract pipeline for the long-term future and is firmly committed to continued growth over the next 5-10 years.
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