Job Description:

Senior Design Engineer - Piling

This challenging and exciting opportunity requires an individual with a good technical background and demonstrable experience in taking the responsibility for producing designs from within the piling, foundations and ground engineering sector.

Our client is a market leading ground engineering contractor. Their service offering includes restricted access and open sites and covers all disciplines and techniques for a wide variety of clients and project applications. They not only complete projects successfully and to the highest of standards at all times but also add value to their clients by giving them total support from the beginning to the end of each and every contract.

Due to continued expansion, an abundant pipeline of works, and the strategy to bring as many aspects of contracts in-house as possible, so as to offer clients a holistic turnkey package, our client is now looking to appoint a Senior Design Engineer. The successful candidate must be able to review enquiry documentations to determine the key considerations associated with proposed projects. Our client seeks a high calibre candidate with enthusiasm and drive to make an impact. You must have strong technical acumen coupled with a general passion for ground engineering. You will also have a professional approach and a keen eye for detail, along with excellent communication and IT skills.

The Role

• Provide design solutions from work winning concept phase to practical completion of projects with the common goal to win contracts and increase site net margin
• Deliver competitive ground engineering designs, holistic rather than simply piling elements
• Accountability for creating designs that are not only efficient but also practical and buildable, with input from collaboration with the operational teams.
• Provide technical and design support to all departments and be fully integrated to the estimating teams and operational teams to aid their performance.
• Analyse the project input to interrogate it, reach an agreement and integrate into a design solution
• Design on a performance-based approach, observational rather than compliance
• Contribute to deliver technical handover to operational teams
• Define pre-agreed mitigations (anticipation vs reaction).
• Attend external meetings with Clients to manage internal and external clients’ expectations.
• Embrace and promote positively and meet KPI’s set out by the Engineering Manager.
• Contribute to the continued improvement of processes within the department.
• Mentor design team members to share ideas and knowledge
• Conduct benchmarking studies to determine design best practice and future trends.
• Engage feedback from other departments for the purpose of continuous improvement
• Ensure design submissions and client communications are of the highest standard of presentation and clarity, are submitted on time and contain the key elements required.

The Person

• Experience in the design of multi-disciplined piling techniques for a variety of project applications
• Proven experience in the use of relevant design industry analysis software is essential.
• Ability to understand and interpret complex data to produce innovative designs
• High level of commercial awareness.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Be able to work independently as well are part of a wider team to deliver more projects
• Assist the work winning and project teams with any engineering or buildability issues
• Ability to prioritise and organise your own work and the work of others effectively

A highly attractive basic salary (commensurate with experience) plus extensive benefits package is on offer to the successful candidate, along with longevity and security of work and forward career progression given that our client possesses a significant contract pipeline for the long-term future and is firmly committed to continued growth over the next 5-10 years.