Lead DFMA Engineer

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Sector: Engineering

Role: Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Are you a Lead DfMA Engineer with mechanical, electrical and plumbing sector knowledge? Are you passionate about making improvements? Can you solve problems and embrace change through innovation? If the answer is yes, then the opportunity below is for you!

The opportunity:

Laing O'Rourke's 2025 Mission is to become the recognised leader for innovation and excellence in the construction industry, driven by innovation and with technical excellence in design, manufacturing, and construction at its core.

Crown House technologies are the specialist MEP delivery unit of Laing O'Rourke and are currently recruiting a Lead MEP DfMA Engineer to join the team.

Through DfMA, we are installing building services quicker, safer, and more sustainably. Using manufacturing systems in a controlled environment, we produce components of consistently high quality to a predictable schedule, leading to dependable financial control, as well as ensuring a safer, more productive site with less congestion between trades.

The use of a factory-controlled environment brings significant quality benefits to the finished services, allows pre-commissioning, and provides a safer, more productive environment for our staff.

What will the role look like?

• Ideally, you'll have experience managing a team, with the ability to lead, support, and drive performance.
• Manage works associated with the integration and deployment of building services DfMA solutions on projects, from product development through to subcontractor management.
• Implement DfMA Solutions to consultant designs and drawings to produce technically compliant DfMA Strategies, interrogating designs and manufacturing drawings to ensure efficient information flow to our Manufacturing Facility.
• Integrate the design and know the key design phases on a project and how they fit into the overall project programme, envisioning the multi-disciplinary nature of design and what this means for the DfMA works.
• Actively contribute to the RDC (Request for Design Change) procedure for change of design information of the properties of commonly used DfMA materials and where these materials are best suited for use on engineering and construction projects.
• Support the work winning function in producing collaborative DfMA strategies and building DfMA Cost Plans.
• Ensure DfMA Solutions are designed and delivered safely, with value add and efficiently.
• Interpret the principles of design, installation, and commissioning various building services systems and apply that knowledge in a DfMA setting.
• Review and approve manufacturing drawings in line with exemplars and project-specific engineering, ensuring incorporation of comments as necessary and applying manufacturing principles in DfMA product design.
• Review Digital Engineering modelling for project construction/logistics purposes (e.g., temporary works, sequence animation and site induction).
• Inform the DfMA team of changes. Mark up drawings with changes referencing documentation that verifies change.
• Help develop and influence site logistics plans for delivery of the DfMA products for the project.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• Passion and interest in DfMA
• HNC/HND/Degree in relevant engineering field, or equivalent skills and knowledge to demonstrate experience.
• Capability of using: BlueBeam, Microsoft Office Suite, Navisworks.
• 2+ years as a DfMA Engineer (or equivalent industry role), with a minimum of 5+ years relevant technical and practical experience within an engineering role.
• Knowledgeable in construction methods, practices, and innovation improvement.

About us:

Crown House Technologies (Cht) is one of the UK's most advanced and innovative engineering and business services specialists. Part of the Laing O'Rourke Group, and founded on more than 200 years of experience, we are a leading construction and infrastructure technology services provider, supplying a complete Building Services package with communications, ICT, intelligent building, monitoring, BMS, and the UK's largest mechanical, electrical & public health manufacturing facility - a 129,000 sq. ft factory - offering Off-site manufacturing and assembly for our digitally engineered modular MEICA packages.

Don't match all the criteria? We are open to flexible working and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long-term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to the interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

Company

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East, and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people, and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

“As an engineering enterprise, Laing O'Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general.”

– Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer

Diversity & Inclusion:

Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Laing O'Rourke believes that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood, and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES

Laing O'Rourke have ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of the diversity and inclusion sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other.

The sub-committees help to drive education, events, and initiatives across the organisation as well as help colleagues to understand their purpose.

Current subcommittees include Dis-Ability, Carers, Ethnicity, Gender, Families that live abroad, LGBTQ+, Women & Menopause, & Working Families.

Support for Disabled Employees:

• LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership, and management have undertaken disability awareness training and are eager to provide an inclusive and accessible experience to job applicants and new colleagues.
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommittee is an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity, and long-term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.
• Disability Confident Leaders – We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.
• LOR are members of the Business Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support line.
• LOR are partnering with Even Break to have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion.

Sustainability:

In April 2021 Laing O’Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include:

• To be a net zero company by 2050
• By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff

Rewards and Benefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension – basic and enhanced schemes
• Health and Wellbeing
• Virtual GP
• Health Assessment (Age 50+)
• Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 5 days leave extra can be purchased
• Employee Discounts
• Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade