Design Engineer – Rail &Civils

Design Engineer – Rail & Civils

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Salary: £45,000 + pkg

Location: London

Region: London

We are currently looking for a Design Engineer, ideally from a design consultancy background to work for a main contractor on high profile projects across London and the South East.

To provide safe, practical and economic designs for internal clients to a high standard of professional competence and in compliance with company procedures.

• Establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHQE department.
• Manage the interface with external or in house design teams on behalf of the Design Manager.
• Liaise with other departments and project teams within the company with respect to design requirements.
• Undertake site visits when appropriate.
• Ensure that design work undertaken is carried out in accordance with company procedures and that a high level of professionalism is maintained.
• Ensure that chargeable work is identified and evaluated including the preparation of adequate records of time spent.
• Ensure that feedback on design work is collated and saved in accordance with procedure.
• Coach individual staff members.
• Prepare conceptual designs from with a view to the preparation of safe, practical and economic designs in accordance with current legislation.
• Prepare detailed designs in accordance with current standards and codes including calculations, design risk assessments and sufficiently detailed sketches for the preparation of working drawings.
• Check the design work of other staff members and external designers.
• Summarise quantities relating to design tasks for pricing purposes.
• Maintain responsibility for the storage, filing and archiving of documents relevant to your design tasks.
• Provide advice and guidance on design and operational issues.
• Limited responsibility for preparation of design tenders and sub contracts.
• Administration and monitoring of Change Controls.
• Reporting of monthly progress report.
• Implementation of Temporary Works requirements and associated registers.
• Produce design or checking services to the requisite standards on behalf of the Company.
• Attend monthly site progress meetings.

• Proven construction design experience
• Computer literate with strong skills in Microsoft Excel and other design based software such as Auto Cad and TEDDS
• Working knowledge of CDM 2007

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