Senior Design Engineer

Bachy Soletanche Limited; Camberley; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme

Enhanced Sick Pay

Income Protection

Private Medical Insurance and Life Ill

Employee Assistance Programme

25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays

Option to purchase additional annual

Paid annual professional memberships

Volunteering days

Professional growth and development

Job summary

Bachy Soletanche Limited, a world leading geotechnical contractor, seeks a Senior Design Engineer to develop and deliver robust designs from concept through to practical completion. You will work closely with estimating and operations, attend client meetings and drive design efficiency, buildability, and best practice across projects.

You will be responsible for providing technical support, mentoring colleagues, and contributing to ongoing process improvements while engaging with clients to

Qualifications

• Ability to deliver designs from concept to practical completion.
• Experience working with estimating and operational teams.
• Strong communication with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Proactive approach to design improvements and benchmarking.

Responsibilities

• Deliver competitive designs (wholistic rather than just pile element).
• Ensure design efficiency and buildability; take accountability for practical designs.
• Provide technical and design support to all BSL departments and estimators/operations.
• Attend external meetings with Clients and manage expectations.
• Embrace KPI targets set by Engineering Manager and drive improvement.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the Engineering process within the department.
• Train Design and Engineering colleagues and broader organisation members.
• Conduct benchmarking studies to determine best practices and trends.
• Engage with estimating and operational teams for continuous improvement.

Skills

Agile

Self-awareness

Resilience

Presentation skills

Determination

Innovative thinking

Job description

As part of a world leading geotechnical contracting group, Bachy Soletanche Limited specialises in all aspects of modern Geotechnics and Foundation Engineering, Including bored and displacement piling, diaphragm walls, grouting, mini piling, anchors, ground improvements and environmental engineering.

We value our team and colleagues as the most important assets we have and we know that it is working together to overcome the most complex geotechnical challenges that ultimately allows us to fuel that feeling of pride.

Our Mission: Proud to create sustainable geotechnical solutions through Trust, Partnership and Excellence.

Our Values: In line with our Mission Statement, the main Values that shape our behaviours, unify us a team and help us build long lasting relationships with our clients are: Teamwork, Excellence, Creative, Trust, Accountability, Caring.

The Role

Senior Design Engineer

What You'll Be Doing

Provide Engineering & design solutions from work winning concept phase to practical completion of projects with the common goal to win projects and to increase site net margin

• Deliver competitive designs (wholistic rather than simply pile element).
• Ensure design efficiency and buildability. Take full accountability for creating designs that are not only efficient
• but also practical and buildable, with input from collaboration with the operational teams.
• Provide technical and design support to all BSL departments and be fully integrated to the estimating teams and
• operational teams to aid their performance.
• Analyse the project input in order to interrogate it, reach an agreement and integrated in a design solution.
• Design on performance-based approach, observational approach rather than compliance approach.
• Contribute to deliver technical handover to operational teams. Define pre-agreed mitigations (anticipation vs
• reaction).
• Attend external meetings with Clients.
• Manage internal and external clients’ expectations.
• Embrace, promote positively and meet KPI set out by the Engineering Manager.
• Contribute to the continued improvement of the Engineering process within the department.
• Assist the new techniques PM to develop the innovations.
• Train Design and Engineering colleagues and to a certain extent broader organisation members. Share ideas.
• Conduct benchmarking studies to determine best practices/designs and future trends.
• Engage and receive feedback from estimating teams and operational teams for the purpose of continuous
• improvement.

What We’re Looking For

• Agile and efficient.
• Ability to independently recognise their knowledge and skill limitations and the limitations of those they will be working with.
• Resilient, assertive, humble, optimistic and open to change
• Confident manner, good presentation skills to Client, Consultant, Site teams, Supply Chain and internal departments.
• Determination - not easily discouraged or put off. Embrace personal challenge.
• Innovative - prepared to see beyond how it has been done before.

Why Bachy Soletanche?

When you join the world’s largest specialist geotechnical contractor, you’re part of an international community of over 10,000 experts, based in 31 countries around the world. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to prestigious, ground-breaking projects, using the very latest tools and technology to solve complex problems, constantly learn new skills and take your career in any direction.

As well as being part one of the largest specialist geotechnical contractor and working in a collaborative environment, we offer:

• Discretionary annual bonus (based on personal/project performance)
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme (min. 5% company contribution)
• Enhanced Sick Pay (after probation)
• Income Protection, Private Medical Insurance and Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 25-days annual leave + Bank Holidays per year (increasing with service)
• Option to purchase additional annual leave
• Paid annual professional memberships
• Volunteering days
• Professional growth and development

Bachy Soletanche is committed to equal opportunities in employment with the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion or belief and pregnancy/maternity.