Site Engineer

Fawkes & Reece; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the housing sector is seeking a Development Engineer to join their established team. The role involves providing engineering strategies for housing developments, ensuring compliance with regulations, and supporting land acquisition processes. Candidates should have a strong background in civil engineering, particularly in house building design, and be proficient in relevant software. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to various projects across the North West region.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Contributory Pension

Bonus

Qualifications

• Experience in technical and engineering aspects of house building design.
• In-depth understanding of Highway & Sewer Standards.
• Substantial experience in residential housebuilding.

Responsibilities

• Prepare site viability reports for residential development.
• Ensure all approvals are obtained for site starts.
• Liaise with external consultants to meet deadlines.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Budget Management

Communication

Education

HNC in Civil Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

PDS

Microdrainage

Job description

This range is provided by Fawkes & Reece. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

A house builder seeks to appoint a Development Engineer to work across a number of housing developments throughout the North West region.

The role

You will provide lean but robust engineering strategies as part of an established, successful land and development team. The role will be working primarily with the land team to de-risk bids and support the due diligence process for land acquisition approval. This would include technical reporting and providing strategies for drainage, cut & fill, retaining walls, foundations, and utilities. Support with groundworks estimating and procurement would also be provided. This would then follow through to supporting planning applications with the necessary technical input and engineering strategy

Duties and responsibilities:

• Ensure all approvals are obtained and information received issued to allow for a programmed start on site.
• Work with Land Department to ensure smooth transition of information.
• Prepare site viability reports in line with current regulatory requirements for residential development
• Check all drawings and details for accuracy, correctness and commercial suitability.
• Liaise with external consultants to ensure deadlines are met.
• Apply for and secure statutory body approval of Engineering Design and Ground Investigation.
• Attend site visits and meetings to solve issues that arise during the constructions process.
• Attend design meetings with the highways and planners to ascertain requirements from a council perspective for new developments.
• Work on tenders and pre-start engineering documentation and oversee viability
• Ensure that new regulation requirements are anticipated and incorporated as required.
• Provide provisional assessment of abnormal design requirements.
• Monitor progress of the adoption of roads, sewers and public open space areas.
• Pursue the reduction and release of outstanding Bonds at the earliest opportunity.
• Assist the Engineering Manager to obtain fee quotations from specialist Consultants for all engineering design and technical report requirements.
• Provide technical and administrative support to the site teams.
• Obtain all required technical approvals in line with programmed site start dates.

Skills and experience:

• Experience of technical and engineering aspects of house building design
• An in-depth understanding of Highway & Sewer Standards
• Substantial experience working within a residential housebuilder or equivalent
• Experience of leading the engineering strategy and working in a team
• Able to analyse complex data and critically evaluate plans
• Good understanding of budget management
• Able to direct external consultants
• A methodical approach to working practices
• Confident decision maker with pragmatic approach to problem solving
• Supporting the land team with the due diligence review and delivery of technical and engineering information required for land appraisals and acquisition.
• HNC or above in Civil Engineering or similar discipline
• Comfortable using engineering related software like AutoCAD, PDS and Microdrainage

What’s on offer for the Development Engineer

• Salary competitive (DOE)
• Contributory pension
• Bonus

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Building Construction and Construction

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