Senior Engineer/Design Manager

NRL; Bristol; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering company is seeking a Senior Engineer to manage civil engineering projects with a focus on quality, safety, and compliance. The role involves overseeing a team, ensuring project efficiency, and implementing innovative construction methods while adhering to environmental standards. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in civil engineering and a strong commitment to safety and quality assurance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing civil engineering projects.
• Strong understanding of safety, health, and environmental regulations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee technical management and execution of civil engineering projects.
• Lead a team of engineers, ensuring quality and compliance.
• Prepare and approve method statements and risk assessments.

Skills

Safety Management

Quality Assurance

Dimensional Control

Project Management

Engineering Knowledge

Job description

The Senior Engineer plays a key role in overseeing civil engineering projects with an annual turnover of £10 million.

This individual is responsible for the technical management and execution of the project while leading a team of 2 to 4 section engineers, ensuring efficiency, quality, and compliance throughout the construction process.

Key Responsibilities & Objectives:

1. Safety, Health, Environment & Sustainability

• Prepare, check / approve method statements and risk assessments, ensuring appropriate priority is given to the public and that third-party approvals are obtained where necessary.
• Assist with the preparation of project environmental procedures and ensure systems are implemented to satisfy contractual and statutory requirements, liaising with third parties such as the Environmental Agency.

2. Dimensional/Spatial Control

• Review the achievability, suitability, and compatibility of specified tolerances and amend as required.
• Review and modify proposed construction methods to ensure compliance with specified or stated tolerances.
• Determine and implement the most appropriate methods for primary & secondary control on the project.
• Supervise, train, and ensure competence of those carrying out dimensional control tasks.
• Provide advice and assistance in resolving survey and dimensional control issues.

3. Workmanship, Quality, Inspection & Testing

• Review ITPs to ensure they correctly interpret the specified quality requirements and improve them as necessary.
• Ensure subcontractors' quality procedures comply with company/contract quality requirements and carry out audits as necessary.
• Determine remedial actions for non-conformances and ensure their approval and implementation.
• Ensure NCRs are satisfactorily closed out and appropriate controls are applied to prevent reoccurrence.
• Produce construction/installation details to improve buildability, compatibility, and minimize risk of later issues.
• Manage the production of quality assurance information for construction records.
• Ensure company and project quality requirements procedures are implemented.

4. Information, Change Control & Records

• Record change requests from the client, including any abortive work resulting from the request.
• Ensure information provided to the facility accounts for any change.
• Assist the project engineer with this as per their role.

5. Permanent Works Materials, Products, Plant & Systems

• Assist the project engineer with this as per their role.

6. Construction Methods, Practices and Innovation

• Challenge existing methods and procedures being used.
• Evaluate alternative solutions and proposed innovations to determine if they are more effective than current methods.
• Drive priority for improvement to software developed for the facility.
• Initiate 3D modelling to develop methods, clarify issues, and resolve method-related problems.
• Carry out value engineering, understanding the financial and client implications of de-scoping, and strive to add value to projects.
• Find alternative solutions to improve productivity, quality, or safety, helping to create best practices.
• Produce method statements for complex and high-risk operations affecting the public.
• Approve method statements and risk assessments, evaluate them, and suggest improvements.
• Develop site practices to ensure method statements are always followed.

7. Temporary Works/Systems & Cranes

• Produce design briefs for temporary works.
• Carry out the role of Temporary Works Inspector (TWI) for complex temporary works, ensuring compliance with procedures.
• Serve as Temporary Works Coordinator (TWC) for projects involving standard temporary works, and as Deputy TWC for complex projects.
• Apply standard temporary works design rules across various products.

8. Design Process, Coordination and Management

• Attend early-stage model reviews and confirm compliance with facility capability.
• Guide detailers on aligning cages with facility requirements.
• Input into cage triage and sequencing.
• Lead a team of Digital Engineers.
• Provide forecasts of work for external parties.
• Manage external teams drafting engineering drawings.
• Review and approve drawings considering buildability, temporary works, and facility requirements.
• Maintain document control via Common Data Environments.
• Report on design status regularly.
• Assist the project engineer as per their role.

9. Engineering Knowledge – Capture, Sharing & Using

• Provide value engineering solutions to engineering problems.
• Ensure lifting, handling, storage, and transport requirements are captured and communicated in temporary works design and drawings.
• Understand manufacturing plant and equipment capabilities and constraints for reinforcement cages.
• Capture facility knowledge for continuous improvement, innovation, and capability enhancement.

About NRL

The NRL Group connects global companies with the right people to bring engineering projects to life. We support contracting companies with energy transition plans and work with our clients to create a cleaner, greener future.

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