Project Engineer (Mechanical or Electrical) in Newcastle upon Tyne

Project Engineer (Mechanical or Electrical)

Responsible for implementing the requirements of the contract and / or project planning procedures, ensuring compliance with the business management system.

• Liaise with Main Contractors and Subcontractors to create detailed programmes for all projects, implementing recommendations, innovation and best practice as applicable. A detailed review of the scope of each project to ensure all relevant activities and milestones are included.
• Ensure that the programme content is functionally compliant with the particular tender/contract requirements, planning procedures and best practice guidance.
• Identify major constraints and contract requirements
• Identify milestones and factors affecting the programme
• Establish construction outputs and identify labour hours with the Estimators to determine labour histograms. Apply resource levelling techniques as necessary
• Apply cost information to each project programme to produce ongoing live cashflow forecasts on each job as well as feeding into an overall operational business cashflow forecast.
• Get involved in tender bids where programming reviews are required
• Produce planning deliverables including regular progressed programmes, presentations and feed into reports.
• Interfacing with third parties to identify and resolve issues and lead regular programme meetings as applicable to each project to monitor progress and identify areas of concern.
• Assess delays and produce critical path delay analysis and substantiation for entitlement to Extension of Time claims as applicable. All live contracts to be reviewed each month for potential delays.
• Manage the programme deliverables associated with NEC contract conditions where applicable.

Minimum of HND or equivalent in related Mechanical or Electrical engineering subject or relevant experience.

• A minimum of two years’ experience in a similar role
• Proficient in the use of planning techniques and the required planning toolsets; particular the sequencing of M+E trades and their interfaces and dependencies with other non‑M+E trades
• Experience with using ASTA Powerproject
• An understanding of various forms of tender documents, contract documents and specifications; particularly the NEC form of contract.
• An understanding of various methods of planning, programming and progress monitoring.
• An understanding of risk and opportunity management with particular reference to planning programming.
• An understanding of the events that initiate, and of the methods used to demonstrate, delay or change entitlement.
• High level of communication, control, organising, motivational and management skills
• Excellent analytical and organisational skills
• Excellent report writing skills and presentation of documentation

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Construction