Our client is a water and civil engineering contractor with many years’ experience delivering world class projects across the UK and they are currently looking to recruit a Structural Design Engineer located in London.
Job Description
The purpose of this role is to carry out detailed structural design and checking of temporary works and minor permanent works for civil engineering and to provide technical support to assist with operational activities.
Technical design:
- Prepare and check detailed technical designs (including calculations, drawings, risk assessments, design certificates)
- Undertake preliminary designs for pricing
- Obtain independent checks and/or third-party technical approvals (e.g. for rail works)
- Ensure design outputs meet CDM/health and safety/environmental compliance
Technical support:
- Provide technical information/advice
- Propose and/or develop value-engineered alternative solutions (during design or construction phases)
-Undertake a technical review of method statements for complex or unusual methods
- Undertake a review of defects or compensation events and advise on solutions
Administrative support:
- Assist with the approval of external suppliers
- Assist with the developing and maintaining processes, procedures and standards for technical design
- Obtain or provide pricing for estimating purposes
General responsibilities
- Liaise with clients/customers/suppliers/third parties as necessary
- Assist with promoting best practices internally
- Assist with promoting the Company to customers
Key measures & targets:
- Deliver required services on time and to cost/quality standards
- Contribute wherever possible to enable the company to meet CDM/health & safety/environmental targets
Key relationships:
- Design & Engineering team and other technical staff
- Project-based staff including Contracts Managers, Project Managers, Site Agents, Site Engineers
- Clients, suppliers and third parties