Section Engineer

Carmichael UK; Royal Borough of Greenwich; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Carmichael UK is seeking a Section Engineer to join the team delivering the London Power Tunnels project. You will monitor works, ensure safety and policy compliance, and maintain strong relationships with client, designer and our supply chain.

You will advise on setting out methods, procure materials, prepare risk assessments and method statements, and ensure drawings and specifications are current. You will supervise site engineers, keep progress records and support timely project delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven engineering experience on large projects.
• Ability to produce, implement and manage safe systems of work for construction procedures.
• Understanding of commercial issues on large-scale construction projects.
• Excellent knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation.

Responsibilities

• Monitor work under control to remedy unsafe conditions and non-compliance.
• Maintain good working relations with client/designer/team and supply chain.
• Advise engineers on setting out methods and techniques.
• Identify materials required and procure to support programme; monitor stock levels and restock as needed.
• Produce and issue technical queries to resolve design information; distribute responses.
• Ensure permits, inductions, task briefs and other documentation are in place and briefed before work.
• Ensure drawings and specs contain sufficient information; request missing information to avoid delays.
• Communicate with foremen and supervisors to ensure understanding of information.
• Oversee selection and requisition of materials and plant.
• Maintain knowledge of project specification to ensure works comply with latest design.
• Ensure temporary works are in place and used; contribute to development.
• Prepare risk assessments and method statements for works control.
• Keep daily site diary with variations, subcontractor attendance and discussions.
• Ensure inspection and test plans are completed and check dimension accuracy and quality.
• Supervise site engineers.
• Maintain records of progress, changes, resources and subcontractor activity.
• Support the Package Manager on construction decisions.
• Promote lessons learnt and best practices.

Skills

Proven engineering experience

Safe systems of work

Commercial awareness

Health & safety knowledge

Environmental legislation knowledge

Education

Degree in Engineering discipline

Job description

Carmichael are seeking a Section Engineer to join the team working on the London Power Tunnels project.

• Monitor the work under their control to ensure that any unsafe work conditions and non-compliance with policies and procedures are promptly remedied
• Maintain good working relations with client / designer / Team, together with our supply chain
• Advise engineers on setting out methods and techniques
• Identify all required materials and procure them to support the programme of planned works. Monitor stock levels of materials within area of responsibility and arrange restocking as required.
• Produce and issue any required technical queries to resolve erroneous or incomplete design information. Distribute responses to all required persons.
• Within area of responsibility, ensure that all permits, inductions, task briefs and other documentation required to undertake works in accordance with legal, parent company and project requirements are in place, approved and briefed to all required persons, including subcontractors, prior to work commencing
• Ensure that the drawings and specification documents contain sufficient, accurate information for construction of the works. Formally request any missing information in sufficient time to allow the programme to proceed without delay
• Communicate with foremen and supervisors to ensure full understanding of information provided
• Overseeing the selection and requisition of materials and plant for the use in the construction process
• Maintain a working knowledge of the project specification, sufficient to ensure that all works within area of responsibility are compliant with specification. Ensure that works are constructed in accordance with the latest design and specification information.
• Ensure that approved temporary works solutions are in place and used as required during all works within the area of responsibility. Contribute to the development of temporary works solutions.
• Ensure that temporary works solutions are constructed, used and dismantled in accordance with approved designs and method statements.
• Prepare written risk assessments and method statements for the control of the works
• Keep a full and accurate daily site diary, including any changes/variations, subcontractor attendance, and records of work-related discussions with client / designer / project team
• Ensure that inspection and test plans are completed as required, including a check of dimension accuracy and quality
• Supervise site engineers
• Maintain appropriate and accurate records of works progress, changes, resources and issues, including works by subcontractors.
• Minimisation of disallowed costs throughout the project
• Support community and environment requirements
• Support the Package Manager on decision making and actions on all construction aspects of the project
• Promote and share lessons learnt, innovation and best practices

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Degree in Engineering discipline
• Proven experience in large engineering projects
• Ability to produce, implement and manage safe systems of work for construction procedures
• An understanding of the commercial issues in undertaking a large-scale construction project
• In depth technical knowledge of area of responsibility and good knowledge of remainder of project
• Basic knowledge of commercial and contractual requirements. Working knowledge of subcontractor scopes of work.
• Excellent knowledge of current civil engineering legislation as well as Health & Safety and Environmental legislation