Project Engineer

at  Avove

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About the role…
We are currently recruiting for Project Engineer to join our UK wide Water Design Team. The positions are required to support our expanding Water Utilities workload and will typically involve providing designs for water and wastewater, infrastructure, and non-infrastructure projects as part of a multi-disciplinary design team. This will include design delivery at all stages, from feasibility and optioneering through to detailed designs for construction and commissioning.
The specific roles are required primarily to support our emerging long-term frameworks with Northumbrian Water Group, Severn Trent Water and United Utilities. There will be additional opportunities to work on other projects and frameworks throughout the UK for a variety of clients.
This is a permanent position and will be of a hybrid nature ideally based in or around any of our Glasgow and Birmingham offices, however, other locations or alternative ways of working would be given due consideration.

What will your day look like…

• Undertake elements of water infrastructure and non-infrastructure design under minimum supervision of others within multi-disciplinary project teams
• Competent to check the work of others and supervise less experienced or junior staff
• Obtain and analyse information, and report on findings
• Prepare and present engineering solutions to others (drawings, reports, calculations, etc)
• Produce engineering drawings, reports and undertake site surveys
• Develop designs in accordance with the client’s requirements and relevant design standards to achieve fit for purpose and cost-effective solutions
• Work collaboratively within a team environment to develop and maintain good working relationships with clients and other stakeholders
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment that brings different challenges every day
• Be familiar with health, safety and welfare e.g., Construction, Design and Management (CDM) Regulations and how these principles can be incorporated into your designs
• Understand the importance of delivering to programme and notifying the design lead when issues that affect delivery arise.
• Understand and use the relevant Quality Management System processes and procedures throughout the project lifecycle.

About you…

• Degree in relevant qualification and holder of/working towards professional certification
• An understanding of the design of water/wastewater infrastructure and non-infrastructure works ideally, but open to learn if coming from another civil engineering background with appropriate experience.
• Computer literate and conversant with the MS Office suite with knowledge of AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit and other related engineering packages.
• Strong written and oral communication and organisational skills and to produce reports in clear concise English.
• Desire to develop existing skills and acquire new technical competences to enhance personal and team capability
• Proven ability to work within a team environment with a dedicated approach to meet project deadlines.
• Be confident to work under minimum supervision and competent to check the work of others and supervise less experienced or junior staff
• Self-motivated with the drive to achieve continuous improvement targets.
• Strong health & safety focus.

Please note that candidates with qualifications that do not fully match the above criteria but have relevant equivalent experience are invited to apply.
What’s in it for you…

We offer a rewarding salary that is tailored to your skills and experience. But that’s not all! We celebrate hard work and give recognition to our colleagues. In addition to this, we understand that one size doesn’t fit all so everyone has access to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.

• 24 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Company Car or car allowance
• Private personal medical insurance
• Company pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Family friendly policies
• A selection of lifestyle benefit options
• Financial wellbeing programme
• Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues
• We love to give back so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity matched giving where we will boost your fundraising.

Please refer the Job description for details