Structures & Civils – Technical Training Lead
Location: Dartford or Manchester
Are you a Civil or Structural Engineering professional with hands-on delivery experience?
Do you thrive on improving standards, shaping best practice, and enabling others to excel?
We're looking for a dynamic Technical Training Lead to support our Engineering Leadership team and drive best-in-class training across our Structures & Civils disciplines. This is a unique opportunity to influence how technical excellence is embedded across our projects—ensuring our people are equipped with the tools, knowledge, and guidance to deliver to industry-leading standards.
What You'll Do
* Lead the creation and delivery of technical training and guidance for Structures & Civils engineers
* Collaborate with Principal Engineers, Technical Leads, and industry experts to shape content
* Review and enhance existing documentation, systems, and assurance processes
* Develop induction modules, mid-career refreshers, and specialist playbooks
* Support project teams nationwide with technical onboarding and compliance culture
* Contribute to strategic training roadmaps and professional body engagement
* Maintain training records and materials
* Development of engineering playbooks / handbooks
What You'll Bring
* Proven experience across structural and civil project phases
* Deep understanding of construction processes and technical operations
* Chartered Engineer status (or working towards it)
* Strong communication and influencing skills across all levels
* Excellent time management and ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment
Join us as we transform the construction industry—delivering innovation, excellence, and sustained high performance by 2025 and beyond. This is a great opportunity to shape the best practice, training and career guidance for a generation of engineering professionals. Can you take your own lessons learned from sites to improve operational delivery with effective training and guidance? Then this is the role for you.
The position is based out of Dartford or Manchester and involves occasional travel to sites / projects.
About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
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