Contracts Engineer

PWS TECHNICAL SERVICES (UK) LTD; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

PWS Technical Services (UK) Ltd is seeking a Contracts Engineer to oversee ground engineering contracts, ensuring safe, timely and profitable delivery across multiple projects. You will lead a site-based team, resolve technical, operational and commercial issues, and maintain high standards of quality and compliance.

Supporting the Contracts Manager, you will attend client and subcontractor meetings, check buildability, and contribute to estimates, pre-tender activities and final accounts to

Qualifications

• Experience in contracts, projects or site roles within the ground engineering sector (consultancy or contractor).
• Hands-on approach with a diplomatic yet pragmatic style when dealing with clients, sub-contractors and teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects from front and adapt to varied contracts and delivery plans.

Responsibilities

• Plan, programme and deliver contracts with regional teams, departments and subcontractors.
• Review estimates and designs for buildability and lead projects from order to completion.
• Attend pre-contract and site meetings to ensure smooth contract execution.

Skills

Ground engineering

Contract management

Site supervision

Client liaison

QA and HSEQ RAMS

Job description

This challenging and exciting opportunity requires an individual with a good technical background and demonstrable experience in taking the responsibility for supporting and overseeing ground or geotechnical engineering sites and projects.

Due to sustained growth, a significant forward order workload and a continued commitment to be at the forefront of the industry, our client is now searching for a talented and motivated Contracts Engineer with experience (at any level) within the piling, foundations or ground engineering sectors.

Supporting the Contracts Manager, the successful candidate will have the day-to-day responsibility for the safe, timely and profitable delivery of a wide variety of projects and schemes, all running simultaneously at differing stages of completion. This will include managing a site-based team, and resolving any technical, operational and commercial issues as required.

The Role

Plan, programme and deliver contracts in conjunction with the regional team, internal departments, and subcontractors in accordance with company policy

Take responsibility for all assigned projects, including the review of estimates and designs to ensure buildability, and leading projects with the client from receipt of order to completion

Attend pre-contract and regular site meetings with the client, clients agents and key sub-contractors (internal and external) to ensure the smooth running of contracts

Inspect works in progress to ensure conformance to QA procedures and specification, and that schemes are delivered in accordance with the correct designs and specifications

Ensure HSEQ plans and RAMS are prepared for contracts in accordance with company policy

Attend regular meetings with the contracts team to provide progress reports on projects, and if required, offer proposals or recommendations to enable successful delivery

Provide technical and operational input into estimates for schemes

Assist in the preparation of proposals during the pre-tender phase as required

Ensure the commercial team is provided with all relevant information, documentation and instructions to support contract variations and final accounts submissions for payment

Carry out toolbox talks as required

Ensure all projects are planned and executed in accordance with company policy, whilst maintaining and improving the professional and progressive image of the company wherever possible

Analyse and interpret detailed client requirements, drawings and specifications

Work under deadline pressures in an efficient, composed and calm manner

Assist the business as a whole to meet their financial targets

Help to manage suppliers and sub-contractors to improve safety, performance and profit

The Person

• Possessing experience in a contracts, projects or site role from any area of the ground engineering sector (consultancy or contractor background)
• To have assisted in the development and delivery of projects with a diplomatic and pragmatic approach, but also with a hands-on attitude to clients, sub-contractors and teams
• To possess first-hand exposure to various contracts, and demonstrate a lead from the front approach
• Hold experience of a variety of projects, including multi discipline techniques
• Possess an understanding of all stages of the contracting process, coupled with the ability to manage and develop yourself both technically and commercially
• Able to identify the requirements of assigned projects to efficiently and effectively produce the most appropriate delivery plan or programme
• Correspond and negotiate with clients, suppliers, contractors, site teams and colleagues
• Efficiently manage situations when workload presents conflicting demands on time and availability, demonstrating an ability to effectively prioritise and schedule
• Monitor, progress and implement controls to ensure tasks are achieved to time, cost and quality
• Develop and select effective solutions to project requirements
• Communicate facts to stakeholders (internally or externally) in an effective manner
• Deliver efficient and effective customer service at all times

Our Client

Our client is a market leading ground and geotechnical engineering specialist. 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 not only complete projects successfully and to the highest of standards at all times but also adds value to their clients by giving them total support from the beginning to the end of each and every contract.

An attractive basic salary (commensurate with experience) plus extensive benefits package is on offer to the successful Contracts Engineer 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.