Senior Project Engineer

Kier Group; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to oversee the quality engineering team for a significant redevelopment project in Plymouth. This role requires a Civil Engineering qualification and experience in major projects, particularly in nuclear environments. Responsibilities include managing a team, coordinating technical data, and maintaining health and safety practices. The company promotes diversity and inclusion and offers various benefits to its employees.

Benefits

Wide variety of benefits

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Role requires a Civil Engineering qualification or relevant experience.
• Expertise in FRC construction techniques is necessary.
• Experience with Major Projects and CSCS certification is also required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Infrastructure Project Quality Engineering Team.
• Manage a team of Quality Assurance Engineers.
• Coordinate technical data with project teams.
• Advise on project impact during construction.
• Drive health and safety culture on site.

Skills

Civil Engineering qualification or relevant experience

Expert Knowledge on FRC construction techniques

Experience in Major Projects including nuclear environments

CSCS Card Holder

Job description

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Project Engineer to join our Joint Venture (JV) partnership between Kier and Bam Nuttall. We are currently delivering the redevelopment project at a Royal Navy site located in Plymouth.

Location

Royal Dockyard, Plymouth - remote working available

Hours

42.5 hours per week. Some flexibility on hours available if desired; please indicate availability when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

Due to the site being a high Security Military Naval base, additional security checks will need to be made – BPSS level of security clearance is required. These checks can take up to 8 weeks to process. Only candidates holding EU, NATO, 5 Eyes, or MISWG member passports and have been a UK residence for the last 5 years can be considered for this role.

Responsibilities

The Senior Project Engineer role is responsible for leading the Infrastructure Project Quality Engineering Team. The role will be focused on all sub-programme and main works packages within the Infrastructure development programme.

Your day to day will include:

• Managing a team of Quality Assurance Engineers across the KBJV 10 dock delivery programme, ensuring project engineering cover on a 24-hour basis depending on the nature and volume of works
• Supporting the development of the project engineering team to ensure appropriate skills and resource are in place
• Prepare, review and co-ordinate technical data with Project Teams, Pre-construction team and Engineering to ensure projects are planned with minimal impact to the project.
• Working with the Delivery Management Team (DMT) to advise and review project impact prior to and during construction
• Responsible for driving a health and safety culture on sites at all times

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Project Engineer is great for you if:

• You have a Civil Engineering qualification or relevant experience and are a member of a technical institution or working toward member status
• Expert Knowledge on FRC construction techniques, including Soils, Subbase, piling Sub-Structure and Super structure.
• Experience in working on Major Projects inclusive of nuclear environments - CSCS Card Holder

We\'re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don\'t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We\'re proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We\'re proud of the steps we\'ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier\'s diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role and the work at this site, you will be required to complete a Government Security Check (SC) Clearance, which takes place before your employment, and is conducted by the Cabinet Office's United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) agency who set out a pre-requisite criteria including residency history. (Applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us - to read more about our programme to support people with convictions into employment, visit jobs.kier.co.uk/prison-programme/). This role will also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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