Project Engineer

KIER GROUP; Lewes; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction and services company is seeking a Project Engineer to join their water team in the UK. The successful applicant will manage engineering support for clean water and wastewater projects, ensuring designs align with industry standards. Candidates should possess a relevant technical qualification and experience in the water sector. The role offers flexibility in hours and a permanent contract, along with a range of benefits.

Benefits

Wide variety of benefits

Qualifications

• Experience within the water sector or similar regulated sector.
• Demonstrable experience in hazard reduction workshops.
• Knowledge of management systems in design and build projects.

Responsibilities

• Support the Southern Water team in delivering projects.
• Ensure design solutions meet Southern Water's requirements.
• Produce necessary design deliverables for project delivery.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Education

Relevant technical qualification (NVQ L3 / HNC / Degree)

Job description

Overview

Project Engineer. We're currently recruiting for a Project Engineer to join our water team working closely with our strategic partner Southern Water to deliver a range of clean water and wastewater projects under the AMP8 Framework. In this role you'll report to the Project Manager and provide management and engineering support to deliver the design development, construction, commissioning, and transfer into use supply of various water and wastewater projects during AMP8.

Location

Flexible and will vary depending on the location of the project.

Contract

Permanent, full time — some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

Responsibilities

As a Project Engineer, you\'ll be working within the Southern Water team, supporting them in ensuring the project is delivered in line with Kier\'s and Thames Water\'s KPIs.

Your day to day will include:

• Analysing and interpreting preconstruction information (PCI), Southern Water standards, and industry good practise, to ensure design solutions meet their requirements.
• Solving problems and ensuring the development of coordinated and integrated design solutions relating to Mechanical or Civils work scope.
• Ensuring the production of all necessary design deliverables by supply chain partners such as specifications, models, drawings, data sheets and schedules required for the delivery of the project.
• Ensuring that design solutions include specific design risk assessments and consider innovation, best value, safety, and delivery programme.
• Collaborating with the procurement team in identification, selection, technical appraisal and appointment of suppliers and sub-contractors to deliver the Mechanical work scope.

Qualifications

• Relevant technical qualification (NVQ L3 / HNC / Degree) and membership of a relevant Professional Body/Institution.
• Demonstrable experience within the water sector or similar regulated sector.
• Demonstrable experience of significant contributions to hazard reduction workshops such as Structured What-If-Technique (SWIFT), Access, Lifting & Maintenance (ALM), HAZ-ID, or similar workflows.
• Knowledge and experience of the main management systems and processes used within a similar large multidisciplinary design and build projects.

We\'re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don\'t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business here.

There\'s never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!

Rewards and benefits

We\'re proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We\'re proud of the steps we\'ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier\'s diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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