Senior Engineering Manager - Mechanical

Skanska UK Plc; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Engineering Surveyor to join their Infrastructure Water team in Cambridge. In this pivotal role, you will provide technical direction to mechanical discipline engineers, ensuring effective integration of design elements across all phases of projects. Your leadership will foster innovation in reducing carbon footprints and enhancing biodiversity. You will mentor junior engineers and manage specialist contractors, ensuring projects meet cost, quality, and safety standards. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact in a company committed to building a better society through responsible construction practices.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or equivalent experience is essential.
• Preferably chartered or working towards chartered status.

Responsibilities

• Lead the mechanical design team to create innovative engineering solutions.
• Oversee production and coordination of mechanical design deliverables.

Skills

Mechanical Engineering

Team Leadership

Project Management

Mentoring and Coaching

Innovative Problem Solving

Education

Engineering Degree

Chartered Status (preferred)

Job description

Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Surveyor to join our Infrastructure Water team in Cambridge.

You will provide engineering technical direction to the mechanical discipline engineers and ensure an effective team is maintained to integrate all mechanical design elements across all zones & phases of the scheme and ensure right first-time functionality through design, construction, commissioning and takeover. You will also provide design support for the Cambridge Relocation Project as required and ensure all designs are fit for purpose and meet current legislation and standards.

What you'll do:

• Lead and develop the mechanical design team to create industry-leading engineering solutions.
• Be a key member of the Engineering Leadership Team (ELT), reporting directly to the Engineering Director.
• Innovate and adopt new work methods to reduce carbon, enhance biodiversity, tackle climate change, and incorporate digital technologies.
• Expand professional networks with internal and external partners.
• Assist in appointing and managing specialist contractors to meet cost, time, quality, and safety requirements.
• Contribute to the project design management plan and ensure team members understand their roles.
• Oversee the production and coordination of the mechanical design programme and deliverables schedule throughout the project.
• Collaborate with project planners to integrate mechanical design deliverables into the construction programme.

What you'll bring to the role:

• An engineering degree or equivalent, or demonstrable degree-level knowledge through relevant experience.
• Preferably chartered or working towards chartered status.
• Competence in practical mechanical engineering within the water/wastewater industry environment.
• Experience mentoring and coaching junior engineers.
• Experience designing multi-disciplinary water industry capital projects, from solution to detailed design.
• Experienced manager of people and teams, developing others, and managing staff welfare.

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [e-mail] if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [e-mail]

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.