Senior Project Engineer - Design in Leatherhead

We are looking for a Senior Project Engineer with significant Design Management experience. Ideally, the candidate would have worked at a Senior Designer or Lead Designer level within the Piping or Structural discipline before moving to Project Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting the Engineering Manager in the development of project basis of design, philosophies, key studies, novel technologies and value improvement practices.
• Being familiar with the contract terms and scope of work, communicate them properly to the engineering staff, and perform all activities required of engineering, as required by the contract.
• Prepare, issue, and maintain a project design basis document. Changes to the document after issue should be considered changes to the scope of work. This will require the coordination of multi-discipline input.
• Work with the engineering disciplines to ensure readiness for project stage gate reviews.
• Work as the Object Engineering Champion on a project and support successful roll-out on projects.
• Advocate the KBR staged execution approach ensuring the correct sequence of working between disciplines to support project success.
• Support Project Controls in development of project schedules and resolve potential conflict between disciplines.
• Support the disciplines for mitigation measures where additional parallel working is required.
• Support and collate the ITT package ensuring a high level of quality through engagement of key stakeholders.
• Facilitate project workshops around lessons learnt, risk management and other discipline specific workshops.
• Keep up to date with KBR Digital solutions and initiatives and support their effective roll-out on projects.
• Support the KBR Project Start-up process ensuring the project works through the requirements in a timely manner.
• Committed to the success of KBR's global workshare execution methodology.

Key Attributes / Skills

• Experience in multiple project delivery as a Project Engineer or Design Manager across different phases of projects FEED, Detail Design etc.
• Aspirations to develop into a Project Engineering Manager.
• Willing to travel on business trips and to site locations if required.
• Experience in developing scoping documents with multi-discipline inputs.
• Collaborates well within a team environment and demonstrates good communications skills for internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstratable flexibility and ability to adapt to changing project-related priorities and deliver high quality, accurate work within deadlines.
• Ability to work with clients to resolve issues, including conflicting demands, sensitive situations, and conflicts with other groups.
• Experience of working with clients in lump sum environments with a focus on change management.
• Extensive experience in 2D and 3D applications to drive efficiencies with the discipline teams.
• Have an understanding of project safety requirements, international standards and implications on design.
• Experience leading 3D Model Review meetings and coordinating multi-discipline input to the review and resolution of actions.
• Experience communicating across a multi-discipline team and across different offices.
• IT literate and fully conversant with Microsoft Office suite and in particular Microsoft Project.

Desirable

• Experience of the configuration and management of 3D databases.
• Experience working with Building Information Management (BIM).
• Experience in UK project execution.
• Experience in Nuclear Project Execution.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering BEng or BSc.
• Professional accreditation with registered Institution or Engineering Council or equivalent.