Project Facade Engineer

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Are you ready to play a pivotal role in delivering high-profile projects with national significance? At Laing O'Rourke, we're looking for a skilled Façade Engineer to join our dynamic team, supporting a multi-asset programme for the Ministry of Defence (MOD). You will have the opportunity to contribute to technically complex projects, from early-stage design to final delivery, ensuring innovative and sustainable façade solutions.

Your Role
As a Façade Engineer, you will be responsible for managing the design and implementation of façade systems, ensuring technical excellence, safety, and compliance across the project lifecycle. You will lead the coordination between design teams and specialist contractors, optimise the value of proposals, and drive quality and efficiency. From concept through to installation, your contribution will be vital in shaping the final outcomes.

Your Initial Project
You'll be working on the MOD's new facilities at Alexander Barracks in Pirbright, Surrey-a project currently at RIBA Stage 3. This multi-faceted initiative will provide accommodation, living spaces, and training facilities, all underpinned by a commitment to Modern Methods of Construction (MMC). The façade systems include precast concrete cladding, curtain walling, windows, and metal cladding, delivered through both internal and external teams.

Location: Dartford & Surrey (Hybrid). Some travel may be required to support other MOD projects across the UK.

Key Responsibilities
• Lead Design Coordination: Ensure alignment between concept design, project requirements, and trade contractors. Identify and address key design issues.
• Technical Oversight: Review tender documents, assess risks, and explore value engineering opportunities.
• Programme and Deliverables Management: Oversee the package design and procurement programme to ensure timely submission of deliverables.
• Subcontractor Management: Monitor the design, manufacture, and installation of subcontractor works, ensuring compliance with standards.
• Information Flow & Communication: Facilitate effective communication and ensure timely responses to RFIs/TQs.
• Compliance & Approvals: Ensure design outputs meet contract, statutory, and internal standards, and coordinate approvals.
• Safety and Quality Assurance: Champion safety and quality, ensuring zero-harm principles are adhered to throughout the process.
• Interface & Integration: Collaborate across teams to ensure resource optimization and best practices.
• Risk & Commercial Insight: Advise commercial teams on design-related risks, opportunities, and cost-effective solutions.
• Project Reporting & Leadership: Track progress, lead section/package meetings, and ensure alignment with commercial, programme, and safety objectives.

About You

• A degree in an engineering discipline (e.g., civil, structural, mechanical engineering, architecture, or construction management) is essential. An MSc in Façade Engineering or chartered status is highly desirable.

• Solid technical engineering background, with experience in technical due diligence for projects.

• Prior experience as a Façade Engineer, Project/Package Manager, ideally with a T1 or specialist façade contractor.

• Familiarity with key subcontractors (e.g., glass/windows, curtain walling) and expertise in design and construction processes.

• Broad understanding of curtain walling principles (mechanics, thermal physics, optics, acoustics).

• Experience identifying risks such as cold bridging or water ingress and implementing best practice solutions.

• Strong communication, leadership, and people management skills.

• Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation, Building Regulations, and relevant British Standards.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, basic CAD, document control, and planning systems.

CVs only tell us so much and so do job adverts.We'dwelcome an informal chat via Emma Woodall (Resourcing Partner) to discuss ewoodall@laingorourke.com or 07350368883.

About us:

Laing O'Rourke is dedicated to being a recognised leader in innovation and excellence in the construction industry. We focus on delivering projects that leave a lasting positive environmental legacy, driven by technical excellence in design, manufacturing, and construction.

We offer a competitiveremunerationpackage (base salary + car/travel allowance) with access to Private Medical Insurance; enhanced pension and parental leave schemes; Life/Dental/Critical illness insurance and income protection; 33 days holiday inc. bank holidays + 1 paid day for volunteering;professional development opportunities and more!

We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone. As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we enable access for candidates with long-term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an Interview Scheme', which supports applicants meeting the essential criteria by offering an interview for the position. If you need the application form in an alternative format or have any questions about our process, please contact resourcingteam@laingorourke.com.

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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

Our Origin Story:

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'Rourkebelieves 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 subcommitteesinclude 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 undertakendisability awareness trainingand are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommitteeis 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 theBusiness 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 withEven Breakto 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 andBenefits:

• 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

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