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Senior Engineer/Design Manager

  • Location: Bristol, BS1 1DA
  • Salary: Competitive
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted about 22 hours ago

  • Sector: Infrastructure
  • Contact: Duncan Lowe
  • Contact Email: dlowe@nrl.co.uk
  • Contact Phone: 01483 302 133
  • Start Date: 15 May 2025
  • Expiry Date: 15 June 2025
  • Job Ref: V-249641

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

  • 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.

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • Provides advice and assistance in resolution of survey and dimensional control issues

3   Workmanship, Quality, Inspection & Testing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4   Information, Change Control & Records

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

  • Ensures information provided to the facility accounts for any change

  • Assists project engineer with this as per their job role

5   Permanent Works Materials, Products, Plant & Systems

  • Assists project engineer with this as per their job role

6   Construction Methods, Practices and Innovation

  • Challenges existing methods / procedures being used

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

  • Drives priority for improvement to software being developed for the facility

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Approves method statements and risk assessments, evaluating them and suggesting improvements

  • Develops site practice such that method statements are always followed

7   Temporary Works/Systems & Cranes

  • Produces design briefs for the temporary works in their area

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

  • 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

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

8   Design Process, Coordination and Management

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

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

  • Inputs into cage triage and sequencing

  • Leads a team of Digital Engineers

  • Provides forecasts of work for external parties

  • Manages external teams drafting engineering drawings

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

  • Document control through Common Data Environments

  • Reports status of design on a regular basis

  • Assists project engineer with this as per their job role

9   Engineering Knowledge – Capture, Sharing & Using

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

  • 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

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

  • Capturing facility knowledge and capability enabling continuous improvement, innovation and improved capability




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