Project Facade Engineer

Laing O'Rourke; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading construction company as a Project Facade Engineer, playing a key role in delivering high-profile projects for the Ministry of Defence. You will manage façade systems, ensuring technical excellence and compliance throughout the project lifecycle. This position offers a hybrid working environment with opportunities for professional development and a competitive remuneration package.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Enhanced Pension Scheme

33 Days Holiday

Professional Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience as a Façade Engineer or Project Manager.
• Solid technical engineering background.
• Familiarity with subcontractors and design processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage design and implementation of façade systems.
• Lead coordination between design teams and contractors.
• Ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

People Management

Education

Degree in Engineering or Design

MSc in Façade Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Adobe Acrobat

Basic CAD

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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 in 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, including critical quality and tolerance matters as the design progresses. Contribute to the contract review process and expedite designers' and trade contractors' contributions to the project Health and Safety file/Operational and Maintenance Manuals.
• Technical Oversight: Review tender documents, assess risks, and explore value engineering opportunities. Comment on and propose appropriate arrangements for the design responsibilities of both internal teams and specialist trade contractors. Review concept design feasibility to identify key issues and critical areas.
• Programme and Deliverables Management: Contribute to the production of the package design and procurement programme, collaborating with planning and resourcing functions. Identify and agree deliverables, ensuring effective processes are in place for reporting design, procurement, production, and installation progress. Contribute to the procurement process, including scope definition, review of returns for compliance, buildability, quality, and value engineering.
• Subcontractor Management: Monitor the design, manufacture, and installation of subcontractor works to ensure compliance with project standards. Assess subcontractor staff capability and performance, ensuring coordination and package interfaces are addressed and that each party amends their work as design progresses.
• Information Flow & Communication: Facilitate effective communication across teams and ensure timely responses to RFIs/TQs. Monitor external changes to work plans and report on the effects of these changes.
• Compliance & Approvals: Ensure design outputs meet contract, statutory, and internal standards, coordinating required approvals and ensuring critical deliverables are in place.
• Safety and Quality Assurance: Champion safety, zero-harm principles, and quality assurance throughout all phases of the project.
• Interface & Integration: Collaborate across design and construction teams to share best practices, optimise resources, and promote innovation by introducing and implementing ideas from within the business and workforce.
• Risk & Commercial Insight: Advise commercial teams on design-related risks, opportunities, and cost-effective solutions. Ensure that buildability and value engineering opportunities are fully considered in design outputs.
• Project Reporting & Leadership: Track progress, lead section/package meetings, and ensure alignment with commercial, programme, and safety objectives. Plan the programming of day to day resource requirements and communicate them to the construction team.
  
  

About You

• A degree in an engineering or design related 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, metal cladding) and expertise in design and construction processes.
• Broad understanding of facade engineering 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 [e-mail] 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 [e-mail] .

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Construction and Engineering Services

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