Senior Design Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Pension scheme (salary sacrifice)

Enhanced sick pay

Income protection

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme

25 days annual leave + Bank holidays

Volunteer days

Professional memberships

Job summary

Bachy Soletanche Limited, a world-leading geotechnical contracting group, seeks a Senior Design Engineer to develop and deliver design solutions across projects from concept to practical completion. You will work closely with estimating and operations teams to ensure buildable, cost-effective designs and successful handovers to site teams.

Join a global team of over 10,000 experts, contributing to prestigious projects and embracing innovations, whilst developing your career in a collaborative,

Qualifications

• Ability to independently recognise knowledge limitations and escalate as needed.
• Confident in presenting to clients, consultants, site teams and internal stakeholders.
• Determination and openness to change with a proactive mindset.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering and design solutions from concept to completion to win projects and improve margins.
• Deliver competitive, holistic designs with input from operations.
• Ensure design efficiency, buildability and integration with estimating and operations teams.
• Provide technical support across departments and participate in handover to operations.
• Attend external client meetings and manage expectations.
• Drive continuous improvement of engineering processes and share innovations.
• Train colleagues and contribute to broader organisational learning.
• Benchmark best practices and engage with estimating and operations for improvements.

Skills

Independent work

Resilience

Client presentation

Innovative thinking

Team collaboration

Agile mindset

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: TEC-TAC = 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.