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Senior engineer/design manager

Bristol (City of Bristol)
NRL
Design manager
Posted: 18 July
Offer description

The Senior Engineer, who plays a key role in overseeing civil engineering projects with an annual turnover of £10 million.

This individual is responsible for the technical management and execution of the project while leading a team of 2 to 4 section engineers, ensuring efficiency, quality, and compliance throughout the construction process.



Key Responsibilities & Objectives:

1 Safety, Health, Environment & Sustainability

1. Prepare, check / approve method statements and risk assessments ensuring that appropriate priority is given to the public and that third party approvals are obtained where necessary.

2. Assist with the preparation of project environmental procedures and ensure that systems are implemented to satisfy contractual and statutory requirements, liaising with third parties, such as the Environmental Agency,

2 Dimensional/Spatial Control

3. Reviews how achievable, suitable and compatible the specified tolerances are & gets amended as required

4. Reviews & changes proposed construction methods to ensure compliance with specified or stated tolerances

5. Determines and implements the most appropriate methods for primary & secondary control on the project

6. Supervises, provides training and ensures competence of those carrying out dimensional control tasks

7. Provides advice and assistance in resolution of survey and dimensional control issues

3 Workmanship, Quality, Inspection & Testing

8. Reviews ITPs to ensure they correctly interpret the specified quality requirements and improves as necessary

9. Ensures that sub-contractors quality procedures comply with company / contract quality requirements and carries out audits as necessary

10. Determines remedial actions for non-conformances and ensures that these are approved and implemented

11. Ensure that NCR are satisfactorily closed out & that appropriate controls are applied to prevent reoccurrence

12. Produces construction / installation details which improve build-ability compatibility and minimise risk of later construction issues

13. Manages the production of quality assurance information for inclusion in the construction records

14. Takes responsibility for ensuring that company & project quality requirements procedures are implemented

4 Information, Change Control & Records

15. Records change requests from the client including any abortive work as a result of the request

16. Ensures information provided to the facility accounts for any change

17. Assists project engineer with this as per their job role

5 Permanent Works Materials, Products, Plant & Systems

18. Assists project engineer with this as per their job role

6 Construction Methods, Practices and Innovation

19. Challenges existing methods / procedures being used

20. Evaluates alternative solutions & proposed innovations to determine if they are more effective than current methods

21. Drives priority for improvement to software being developed for the facility

22. Initiates 3D modelling to develop methods, clarify issues and resolve method related problems

23. In respect to methods, carries out value engineering; understands the financial and client implications of de-scoping and constantly strives to add value to our projects

24. Is instrumental in finding alternative solutions to existing methods and practices to improve productivity, quality or safety helping to create best practice

25. Produces method statements for complex and high-risk operations such as those affecting the public

26. Approves method statements and risk assessments, evaluating them and suggesting improvements

27. Develops site practice such that method statements are always followed

7 Temporary Works/Systems & Cranes

28. Produces design briefs for the temporary works in their area

29. Carries out the role of Temporary Works Inspector (TWI) for complex temporary works ensuring compliance with company procedures

30. Carries out the role of Temporary Works Coordinator (TWC) for projects involving standard temporary works is Deputy TWC for complex projects ensuring compliance with company procedures

31. Applies a standard rule set of temporary works designs to a range of product

8 Design Process, Coordination and Management

32. Attend early-stage model detailing reviews and confirm compliance with the facility capability

33. Provides guidance to detailers on how to best align the cages with facility requirements

34. Inputs into cage triage and sequencing

35. Leads a team of Digital Engineers

36. Provides forecasts of work for external parties

37. Manages external teams drafting engineering drawings

38. Reviews and approves drawings taking into consideration buildability, temporary works and facility requirements

39. Document control through Common Data Environments

40. Reports status of design on a regular basis

41. Assists project engineer with this as per their job role

9 Engineering Knowledge – Capture, Sharing & Using

42. Provide value engineering in determining the best solutions to engineering problems.

43. Be aware of the lifting, handling, storage and transport requirement of the product and ensure these are captured in the temporary works design and communicated on drawings

44. Have an understanding of the capabilities and constraints of all manufacturing plants and equipment for the manufacture of reinforcement cages

45. Capturing facility knowledge and capability enabling continuous improvement, innovation and improved capability




About NRL
The NRL Group connect global companies with the right people to bring engineering projects to life. Supporting contracting companies with energy transition plans and working with our clients to create a cleaner, greener future.

We welcome applications from every walk of life and are committed to diversity within the industries we support, as a certified Inclusive Recruiter and Armed Forces friendly employer. You can ensure you stay safe when job searching online by visiting the JobsAware website.

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