Civil Engineer - Tunnelling - Review & Acceptance

Morson Talent; Bridgwater; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is looking for a Civil Engineer (Tunnelling) to join a significant energy infrastructure project in Bridgwater. The role involves providing technical expertise, reviewing design changes, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. Candidates should have a strong background in concrete design and tunnelling, alongside relevant qualifications. This position is contract-based and offers a hybrid working pattern.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of design experience in tunnelling structures.
• Knowledge of reinforced concrete methods in marine and tunnelling environments.
• Working within UK CDM regulations.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise for design changes.
• Manage CDM aspects and principal designer role.
• Ensure timely delivery of design and construction changes.

Skills

Concrete design codes

Tunnelling safety training

Delivery-oriented

Team player

Technical quality maintenance

Education

Advanced degree in Civil or Structural Engineering

Working towards Chartered Engineer

Job description

Overview

Location: Site based, Bridgwater (3 days per week) and remote working (2 days per week). Status: Inside IR35. Type: Contract - approved until 31 December 2026. Reports to: Area Lead. Morson Talent are delighted to present an opportunity for a suitably qualified and experienced Civil Engineer (Tunnelling) to join our client's established team for work associated with a nationally significant energy infrastructure project in Somerset.

The Civil Engineer (Tunnelling) will provide technical expertise to support and ensure the review, acceptance and technical delivery of design changes during construction of the marine works. The successful candidate will have a working knowledge of concrete design codes such as Eurocode 2 and their application in the marine and tunnelling environment. You will work closely with the Site Joint Design Office (JDO) Design Team and Construction team to maintain the technical quality of responses (content / consistency / exhaustiveness / accuracy) and construction safety. You will demonstrate accuracy, tenacity, diplomacy, results-orientation and be a team player, draft programmes and action plans in order to deliver specific project / assignment objectives.

More specifically, you will:

• Support the JDO in the handover of Design Packages released for construction and initiate the delegated responsibilities through this process.
• Review and accept changes to designs raised by the site contractor and manage interfaces between construction contractors and designers (Request for Information, Field Change Request or Non-Conformance Report).
• Ensure all design and construction changes are delivered on time to meet construction needs.
• Attend readiness reviews of Design Packages released for construction as required by design owners.
• Manage CDM aspects relating to the design changes during the construction period, including discharging the role of principal designer.
• Work closely with Design teams, Contractors and Construction teams to maintain technical quality responses, construction programme and construction safety.
• Be responsible for the nuclear safety acceptance of the design by carrying out surveillance on the design changes during construction.
• Support Safety Case / golden thread: in the review and acceptance process, ensure the high-level safety case and the design have a clear golden thread to support operations.

Criteria

• Strong knowledge of secondary lining to tunnels and shafts using reinforced concrete methods in the marine and tunnelling environment.
• Strong knowledge of pipe jacking and associated launch/termination structures.
• 3+ years of design experience of TBM, pipe jack and secondary lining tunnelling structures.
• Design process and design activities (preferably related to Nuclear Industry).
• Working knowledge of Concrete design codes (e.g. Eurocode 2).
• Design with hazard & accidental safety cases.
• Working within UK CDM regulations and in a highly regulated industry.
• Delivery-oriented and ability to set action plans and meet deadlines.

Desirable

• Knowledge of pipe jack construction methods and common defects and their repair methods.
• Knowledge of common defects to RC underground structures and their repair methods.
• Experience in the design of offshore structures.
• Experience working in a construction environment with clients, designers and contractors.
• Knowledge of construction change procedures.
• Experience in large-scale, multi-cultural industrial projects with safety case architecture.
• Understanding and application of the Intelligent Customer Role.
• Health & Safety legislation including CDM and Nuclear Site License requirements.
• Familiarity with safety case process and design substantiation.

Qualifications & Experience

• Essential: Advanced degree in Civil or Structural Engineering.
• Desirable: Working towards / Chartered Engineer with either ICE or IStructE.
• Medium Risk Confined Space qualification.
• Tunnelling Safety Training Scheme (TSTS) qualification.
• PWR technology design, safety case or operation.