Job Description
Design Engineer (Design Coordination)
Location: Site based / North Wales
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 Negotiable dependant on experience plus car / allowance and lodge allowance and travel allowance.
Summary
A leading infrastructure contractor is looking to hire a Design Engineer to work on a £207 million pound power supply tunnel project for National Grid in Wales.
The main purpose of the role will be to manage design consultant activities and deliverables to ensure they are completed in line with the agreed programme and Client requirements
Role Accountabilities
- Manage the Technical Queries process. Assigning actions and follow up on responses.
- Manage and communicate all design queries, comments and information required from Design workshops and meetings and keep records.
- Raise requests for further information internally and externally from the whole project team.
- Support the Design manager to ensure all design deliverables are timeously provided as per the of design programmes.
- Review Designers Monthly reports and produce monthly reports on design progress and any other design specific elements.
- Manage and update the design deliverable schedule.
- Review all design deliverables and ensure that they are completed to the expected standard. Challenge and resolve when not, including reviewing of all drawing in line with the Clients Scope/requirements.
- Attend interface meeting with external parties, keeping record of meeting and assign/follow up on actions related to the Design.
- Arrange internal design interface meetings with construction department
- Ensure compliance with design management processes required by the contract.
- Collaborate with the engagement of external suppliers/subcontractors.
- Manage provision of drawings to project team - document control.
- Manage the BIM requirements for permanent and temporary works together with the BIM/CAD Technician.
- Assist the Lead TWC as design lead for temporary works design packages for the project and ensure the Temporary Works Process is implement and followed at all times.
Person Specification
- An understanding and working knowledge of construction methods and outputs and can coach others
- Substantial construction and design experience.
- Understands the Principal Designer Duties
- Heavy civil engineering projects and tunnelling experience - advantageous
- Educated to degree, HND or HNC level (or an equivalent) ideally in Civil Engineering
- Willing to work away from home during the week