Project Engineer, Engineering Design & Technologists

Location: South East London

About

The Role Currie & Brown is one of the leading international physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation, and reputation with a genuine global office network. Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management make our business what it is today.

Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way. The role - what is it we would like you to do? You will be joining part of a project delivery team leading the design of projects forming our clients Capital Investment Programme.

Managing the interface with external design consultants ensuring that this process is managed effectively, maintaining progress against an agreed schedule and managing the cost of the work carefully. As the Project Engineer you will also work alongside the Field Engineer to ensure that the projects are installed on site in line with the approved design. Your core duties will involve:
• Delivering effective design management on individual projects.
• Develop the project scope for civil engineering and building projects to satisfy the business need and support the business case.
• Develop the design brief for external design consultants, ensuring that the design contract is implemented and effectively managed through the design process.
• Seek safe and cost-effective design solutions to meet project requirements, working closely with Principal Engineers to align designs to Engineering Standards or to agree concessions from the standards where required.
• Manage external design consultants, ensuring that design outputs are reviewed, coordinated and meet quality requirements.
• Define, in collaboration with the Asset Information Team and other stakeholders as required, the asset information requirements within the Employers Information Requirements for both design and construction contracts.
• Monitor, coordinate and provide technical input to any design changes throughout the construction and handover stages.
• Support the wider project team and CDM Advisor discharge our client's statutory duties as a Principal Designer (where applicable).
• Support the technical evaluation of potential contractors and consultants as required.
• Support the continuous improvement of project delivery (including design management) processes and procedures and implements process improvements as these continue to be developed.
• Support the client's Project Manager as required with stakeholder management to support the delivery of projects, having consideration for the balance between operational disruption and project costs.
• Supporting the Field Engineer with management of safety and quality on site, ensuring that the construction on site aligns with the design and that quality testing meets necessary requirements.
• Support the effective commissioning and handover of projects through review of as-built information, ensuring quality and completeness in what is delivered against contractual requirements.
• Ensure compliance with all legal and statutory obligations applicable to this role, including all standards and code compliance and required planning permissions. What skills and attributes are we looking for from you
• Educated to Degree level or equivalent in a relevant Engineering discipline - preference for degrees with honours at 2/ii and above.
• Qualifications - Chartered Member of a recognised Engineering Institution such as IMechE, ICE, IEE.

- (essential)
• Experience in engineering design or design management on large infrastructure projects or multi-year programmes of engineering works with a value typically more than £10m per annum.
• Experience of managing multiple, interfacing, concurrent design projects - (desirable)
• Good understanding of the importance of controlling and managing the project close out and handover process
• Good understanding of Health Safety & Environmental issues associated with the Construction industry.
• Good understanding…