Our client is a major design, engineering and project management consultancy who has been rapidly growing within various sectors and who is looking for multiple experienced professionals to join them on permanent basis. This role is for a Principal Engineer located in Glasgow.
Job Description:
Working in a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, technicians and other professionals, you will be responsible for leading the design teams responsible for delivering highway designs which includes producing 3D models, drawings, and specifications to relevant standards.
Your experience should demonstrate the successful design of projects meeting programme and budgets targets. Your communication skills and teamwork should be excellent, with the ability to present highway designs to Clients and Stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Providing technical guidance on highway infrastructure projects.
- Mentoring and coaching team members and taking responsibility for the technical development of staff.
- Solving engineering problems.
- Developing works cost estimates.
- Checking and reviewing the work of others.
- Liaise with key clients and be capable of discussing design / technical solutions to stakeholders including technical and non-technical Clients.
- Liaising with Practice Managers, ensure that projects are sufficiently resourced.
- Delegating work to team members, programming deliverables and monitoring progress.
- Identify and respond to project commercial risks and opportunities.
- Support the business in winning work including representing the business at networking events, preparing bids and tenders and establish, maintain and develop relationships with existing and prospective internal and external clients.