Senior Project Engineer - Hampton

MWH Treatment; Hampton; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MWH Treatment seeks a Senior Project Engineer/Senior Contracts Engineer to join the Delivery team in Hampton. You will report to the Project Manager and manage design, construction, commissioning and contract execution to meet the tender estimate and schedule while upholding safety and customer satisfaction.

You will lead planning sessions, coordinate with engineering and supply chain partners, monitor costs and risks, and ensure proactive issue resolution.

Qualifications

• Project management experience.
• Experience with NEC3 contracts.
• Degree or equivalent in construction.
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and CDM 2015.
• Experience delivering engineering projects.
• Delivery-driven with targets and programme monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Input to and update construction programmes ensuring milestones are met.
• Lead collaborative planning sessions with stakeholders to programme critical activities.
• Prepare and issue Invitations to Tender, collate responses and provide analysis for award.
• Prepare requisitions to buyers and coordinate procurement.
• Coordinate technical interfaces between engineering and supply chain partners.
• Day-to-day management of site management team; resolve or escalate issues.
• Review consolidated invoices for errors prior to payment.
• Identify opportunities for innovation to reduce risk and improve safety and productivity.
• Manage risk register and provide monthly updates; assist in variances mitigation.
• Attend Health & Safety, Progress, and Coordination meetings; report near misses/incidents.
• Collaborate with PM, H&S, Design and Construction to monitor costs and variations.
• Champion design liaison meetings and ensure adherence to safety procedures.

Skills

Project Management

Contract Management (NEC3)

Stakeholder Communication

Risk Management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in construction-related discipline

Tools

Primavera P6/APMP or equivalent

Job description

We are looking to strengthen our Delivery team with a Senior Project Engineer or Senior Contracts Engineer based at Hampton.

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;

Essential:

• Project Management experience
• Experience of delivering utilising NEC3 form of contract
• Degree or equivalent qualification in a construction related discipline
• Excellent oral and written communicator with the ability to work in close partnership with clients and end users
• Understanding of Health and Safety legislation and regulations including CDM 2015
• Experience of delivering engineering projects
• Delivery driven with experience of setting and monitoring targets and programmes

Desirable

• Chartered with a recognised institute or be near chartered
• Water industry experience (non-infrastructure)
• Experience of using Primavera P6APMP or equivalent

Technical Competencies: Skilled

• 1. Contract Management
• 2. Governance
• 3. Budgeting and cost control
• 4. Risk, Opportunities and issue management
• 5. Project Planning (schedule)
• 6. Digital Delivery
• 7. Procurement (negotiations and management)
• 8. Solutions development (pre- construction / design development)
• 9. Client, stakeholder and conflict management
• 10. Resource management
• 11. Change management
• 12. Quality management

Behavioural competencies: Skilled

• 1. Communication
• 2. Collaboration
• 3. Client Focus
• 4. Striving for Results
• 5. Integrity, Trust and Respect
• 6. Coaching and Providing Feedback
• 7. Leadership