Project Engineer

Our Client is a design-build provider of water/wastewater solutions to the UK and Irish water sectors. They are currently seeking a Project Engineer to join their team in Alton.  

Duties & Responsibilities:  

- Support the Project Manager(s) in the delivery of contracts to help ensure they a completed on-time and within budget  

- Co-ordinating with site, workshop and office-based personnel working on each project to ensure contracts are delivered within the conditions of contract  

- Conducting site visits to plan, monitor and close out project delivery activities  

- Client liaison for project delivery to communicate any changes or developments to the contract  

- Ensure all relevant HSQE documentation is up to standard and in place  

- Planning of all installations from awarding of contract to completion and handover of all documentation  

- Organising, planning, and attending technical meetings with clients and consulting engineers  

- Enforcing safe work practices onsite and ensuring that policies and procedures are always adhered to during the design and installation  

- Reporting accidents, incidents, dangerous occurrences and / or near misses to the UK Contracts Manager and Safety Manager  

- Accommodating site inspections from clients, the HSE and other external bodies  

- Recording and closing out non-conformances and ensuring that the corrective action, root cause and preventative / improvement actions are successfully identified  

- Coordinating the financial elements of the project to achieve target goals  

- Purchasing and acquisition of project cost components  

- Coordinating the entry of relevant data on the internal company IFS system  

- Retrieval of relevant financial reports from the internal company IFS system for monthly project status reporting  

- Producing case studies of completed projects  

- Other duties as may arise from time to time that are consistent with the job-holder’s knowledge and skills and are needed to effectively perform the role  

- Engineering or science degree, HND or equivalent  

- Minimum one-year postgraduate experience in a project engineering, technical sales/support or applications/R&D role within the utilities sector and/or M&E engineering environment  

- Experience within the UK water industry is a distinct advantage  

- Advanced MS Office skills with the ability to analyse and manipulate data sets  

- Good communication skills, and ability to multitask  

- Strong organisational, analytical and interpretive skills  

- Full driving licence