Project Engineer

Mitie Group plc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Mitie Group plc. is seeking a Project Engineer to assist the Senior Project Manager across allocated projects, ensuring on-schedule delivery and meeting customer expectations, while supporting HSE, installation progress and quality control.

You will conduct site surveys, plan and coordinate fire detection, access control, CCTV and intruder alarm works, and ensure designs meet EN/BS/HTM and BAFE/NSI standards. You will also prepare reports and assist with commissioning.

Qualifications

• Experience with fire detection, access control, CCTV and intruder alarm systems against British/European Standards.
• Ability to follow design specifications and implement good installation practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with ability to interpret technical documents.

Responsibilities

• Conduct site surveys and prepare documentation considering security and fire risk factors.
• Plan fire detection, access control, CCTV and intruder alarm systems.
• Ensure design specs are compatible with EN, BS, HTM and BAFE/NSI Codes of Practice.
• Coordinate installation activities to follow procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Actively monitor and manage project progress.
• Ensure adherence to company policies on quality, health & safety and false alarm management.
• Provide reports to the Project Manager and company officers.
• Commissioning and testing systems; complete commissioning paperwork.
• Demonstrate operation of systems to client representatives.

Skills

Fire detection systems

Access control

CCTV systems

Intruder alarm systems

Design interpretation

Communication skills

Project planning

MS Office

Regulatory standards knowledge

Job description

Job title: Project Engineer

Based from: HPC

Reports to: Senior Project Manager

The Role

The role of the Project Engineer is to assist the Company's Senior Project Manager across allocated projects, ensuring smooth, on schedule running including the achievement of all customers' expectations and adherence to statutory regulations. You will also be supporting the Company's Project Managers, with regards the following, H&S management, installation progress and quality, material management and test and commissioning.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Conducting site surveys and preparing documentation accordingly giving due consideration to all applicable security and fire risk factors
• Planning fire detection, access control, CCTV and intruder alarm systems
• Ensuring system design specifications are compatible with the requirements of all applicable technical and regulatory standards (i.e. EN, BS, HTM) and BAFE/NSI Codes of Practice
• Coordinating installation activities to ensure that they are carried out in a controlled manner and in accordance with the Company's documented procedures and processes plus any statutory and regulatory requirements that may apply
• Actively monitoring and managing project progress
• Ensuring adherence to all Company policies – including those for quality, health & safety and the management of false alarms.
• Providing reports as appropriate to the Project Manager and any other Officers of the Company
• Carrying out any other job specific duties as deemed appropriate by the directors of the Company
• Health & Safety reporting (Safe Starts, Tool Box Talks, Site Inspections, Plant & MEWP inspections)
• Quality reporting including snagging installation work, ensuring snags are cleared and documented
• Reporting on progress including mark ups of drawings or schedules
• Liaising with the Project Managers to ensure sufficient labour is available to meet project requirements
• Attending site meetings as and when required
• Accepting the installation from the installers ready for commissioning
• Commissioning & testing systems, complete commissioning paperwork
• Demonstrating operation of systems to client/client rep
• Keeping up to date in respect of new technologies and regulatory standards that are relevant to the design process

No job description can be entirely comprehensive and the jobholder will be expected to adapt and carry out such other duties as may be required from time to time, on the understanding that they will be within the individual's remit and capability, and consistent with the status and responsibilities of the role within the business.

Person Specification

Essential

• Experience of working on but not limited to the following systems:- fire detection, access control, CCTV and intruder alarm systems to the applicable British and European Standards and knowledge also of all relevant BAFE/NSI codes of practice
• Ability to follow design specifications and to implement good working practices of installation works
• Excellent communication skills (both written & verbal), including the ability to interpret technical documents
• Ability to plan and monitor work to tight time scales and deadlines
• Ability to work creatively and innovatively dealing with core issues with customers
• Ability to form good working relationships with colleagues, customers and outside bodies
• Computer literate and proficient in all core Microsoft Office packages

Desirable

• CSCS card (or equivalent)
• SSSTS
• Experience of Eque2 or other similar contract management software
• IPAF

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

Working Conditions

The physical environment requires the employee to work in office and construction site locations around the UK. Construction site locations will involve both inside and outside working environments and the employee will frequently be required to use personal protective equipment. The employee may be required to work nights, weekends and on public holidays and will be required to spend time away in order to fulfil the job role.

Group Compliance

As part of the companies compliance to The Health & Safety at Work Etc Act 1974, ISO9001 for Quality, ISO14001 for Environmental and ISO27001 for Information Technology, there are several key objectives that are issued each year upon management review that we expect all staff to work towards in order for the company to meet these objectives and include but are not limited to:

• Compliance to all legislative and British Standard requirements
• Compliance to associated accreditation bodies schemes from NSI, BAFE, LPCB, FIA and others as required
• Maximise customer satisfaction with the services provided by GBE Converge
• Working to reduce, renew and recycle any waste on and off our sites including our offices
• Protect the environment and ensure use of toxic materials is avoided where possible
• Work to best safe practice and ensure actions do not cause harm unto themselves or others
• Employees will not tamper with any issued PPE or plant machinery that it may cause harm unto themselves or others
• Ensure all minimum training requirement are met in compliance with the relevant ISO standards
• Ensure that any Information Technology ‘incidents' are effectively reported and resolved in a timely fashion (internally or externally)
• Maintain clear desk and screen at all times
• Compliance to ensure no deliberate breaches in security information and/ or systems