Senior Project Engineer

Mwh Treatment; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

MWH Treatment in Birmingham is seeking a Senior Project Engineer or Senior Contracts Engineer to join the Delivery team on site with hybrid working. You will report to the Project Manager and be responsible for designing, constructing, commissioning and putting contracts to work to meet the tender spec within the required time and budget while ensuring safety and customer satisfaction.

The role emphasizes driving innovation, coordinating with engineering and supply chain partners, managing risk,

Qualifications

• Senior-level engineer with site-based project delivery experience.
• Experience in design, construction, commissioning and handover.
• Ability to manage budgets and schedules while ensuring health and safety.

Responsibilities

• Input to and update construction programmes to meet milestones.
• Lead collaborative planning with key stakeholders.
• Prepare tenders, evaluate responses, and support award decisions.
• Coordinate between MWH engineering and suppliers.
• Manage site team and resolve issues, escalate when needed.
• Review invoices for errors before payment.
• Maintain risk register and report monthly on risks.
• Attend safety, progress, and coordination meetings.
• Support cost planning and monitor project costs.
• Champion design liaison meetings and safety compliance.

Skills

Project management

Construction planning

Stakeholder management

HSE awareness

Cost control

Job description

We are looking to strengthen our Delivery team with a Senior Project Engineer or Senior Contracts Engineer based at site with hybrid working available (Site options: Brancote or Mansfield).

You will report directly to the Project Manager and your role will be to manage the design (including challenging solutions and identifying opportunities for innovation), construction, commissioning and putting to work of contracts to ensure they are completed in the most efficient manner to the specification, within the time required and within the tender estimate without risk to the health and safety of all concerned while ensuring good customer satisfaction

Key responsibilities will include:

• Input to, manage and update construction programmes ensuring key milestones are met;
• Arrange, chair and participate in collaborative planning sessions to ensure critical activities are programmed with all key stakeholders ;
• Prepare and issue invitations to tender, collate responses and prepare cost benefit analysis with recommendations for award;
• Prepare and circulate requisitions to buyers;
• Technical co-ordination between MWH engineering and supply chain partners;
• Day to day management of site management team ensuring any issues are resolved or escalated;
• Review of consolidated invoices, identifying errors and omissions prior to payment approval;
• Challenge all stakeholders to identify opportunities for innovation, doing something differently and improving working practises to realise opportunities and minimise risk – both to safety and commercial performance;
  
• Management and coordination of the risk register and provide monthly updates. Assist Project Managers to manage early warnings to variations to risk register with the project management team;
• Attend Health & Safety, Progress, Employee Forums and Coordination meetings as required;
• Work with the Project Manager, Health & Safety, Design and Construction teams to report on all near misses / unsafe conditions/ accidents/ incidents;
• Preparation of pre-start packs and collation and uploading of collated data to systems
• Work closely with Project Quantity Surveyor to generate cost plans, input commitments and monitor project out-turn costs, reporting to the PM any variations and assist in preparation of mitigation plans
• Champion design liaison meetings
• Ensure that all Health and Safety procedures are adhered to and that all activities are carried out with due regard to the Health and Safety of all employees, Clients and members of the general public;