Project Engineer

Currie & Brown is one of the leading international physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation, and reputation with a genuine global office network.

Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way.

The role involves joining part of a project delivery team leading the design of projects forming our clients' Capital Investment Programme. You will manage the interface with external design consultants ensuring that this process is managed effectively, maintaining progress against an agreed schedule and managing the cost of the work carefully. As the Project Engineer, you will also work alongside the Field Engineer to ensure that the projects are installed on site in line with the approved design.

Your core duties will involve:

• Delivering effective design management on individual projects.
• Developing the project scope for civil engineering and building projects to satisfy the business need and support the business case.
• Developing the design brief for external design consultants, ensuring that the design contract is implemented and effectively managed through the design process.
• Seeking safe and cost-effective design solutions to meet project requirements, working closely with Principal Engineers to align designs to Engineering Standards or to agree concessions from the standards where required.
• Managing external design consultants, ensuring that design outputs are reviewed, coordinated and meet quality requirements.
• Defining, in collaboration with the Asset Information Team and other stakeholders as required, the asset information requirements within the Employers Information Requirements for both design and construction contracts.
• Monitoring, coordinating and providing technical input to any design changes throughout the construction and handover stages.
• Supporting the wider project team and CDM Advisor discharge our client's statutory duties as a Principal Designer (where applicable).
• Supporting the technical evaluation of potential contractors and consultants as required.
• Supporting the continuous improvement of project delivery processes and procedures and implementing process improvements as these continue to be developed.
• Supporting the client's Project Manager as required with stakeholder management to support the delivery of projects, having consideration for the balance between operational disruption and project costs.
• Supporting the Field Engineer with management of safety and quality on site, ensuring that the construction on site aligns with the design and that quality testing meets necessary requirements.
• Supporting the effective commissioning and handover of projects through review of as-built information, ensuring quality and completeness in what is delivered against contractual requirements.
• Ensuring compliance with all legal and statutory obligations applicable to this role, including all standards and code compliance and required planning permissions.

What skills and attributes are we looking for from you:

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent in a relevant Engineering discipline - preference for degrees with honours at 2/ii and above.
• Qualifications - Chartered Member of a recognised Engineering Institution such as IMechE, ICE, IEE. (essential)
• Experience in engineering design or design management on large infrastructure projects or multi-year programmes of engineering works with a value typically more than £10m per annum.
• Experience of managing multiple, interfacing, concurrent design projects - (desirable)
• Good understanding of the importance of controlling and managing the project close out and handover process.
• Good understanding of Health Safety & Environmental issues associated with the Construction industry.
• Good understanding of construction techniques and constructability issues.
• Good understanding of monitoring the management of quality.
• Good working knowledge of basic computer skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project).
• Knowledge and understanding of NEC suite of contracts - (desirable)
• Experience of preparation of Project Manager Instructions and responses to Contractor Claims - (desirable)
• CSCS (Construction Skills Certification Scheme) card.
• Knowledge and understanding of BREAAM, or other Green Certification schemes - (desirable)
• Knowledge and understanding on managing innovative technologies that help reduce a building's carbon emissions - (desirable)
• Formal Project management qualifications - (desirable)

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people's futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage - providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

We don’t offer just a job; we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we passionately believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, which is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.

With the backing of our parent company, we are a truly independent business. Our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions, as well as work directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.