Principal Designer

Principal Designer
- East Anglia
- Circa £65,000 + package

**Principal Designer**

**East Anglia**

**Circa £65,000 + package**

Fourblue have teamed up with the UK's largest provider of essential infrastructure services through long-term framework agreements to the electricity, water and gas sectors across the UK & Ireland. Their growth and success are creating new opportunities for experience individuals to join their team and continue to grow and push the company forward.

**What you will receive in return**:

- 25 days annual leave plus 8 days bank holiday
- Annual bonus
- Pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Private health care
- Company car or car allowance and fuel card

As the Principal Designer you will form part of the Design Team
***who are responsible for production and checking of electrical transmission design. Work involves construction of new electricity substations, rebuild or refurbishments or electrical equipment at voltages up to and including 132kV.

**Responsibilities of the Principal Designer**:

- Provide health, safety, environmental and CDM advice to design team. To enable team to remain fully compliant with all statuary H&S regulations
- Monitor and report upon the timely provision of necessary surveys, reports, investigations and plant/equipment specifications to ensure effective and efficient designs that maximise value engineering opportunities
- Monitor and report the design progress highlighting resource constraints
- Accountable for monitoring the provision and effectiveness of design risk assessments (HEML) are carried out on all projects. To ensure compliance with statuary regulations and safety by design
- Arrange and hold regular design, Value Engineering and HEML reviews, monitoring monthly design progress and reporting. To ensure financial targets are met
- Provide CDM co-ordination in line with current regulations
- Responsible for the compilation and submission of a statutory notice for all Notifiable projects within their design team and any updates
- Collate monthly design dashboard, detailing latest view of project portfolios, workloads, delivery programmes, efficiencies and any underlying performance and design issues
- Provision of accurate and current data to enable managers to co-ordinate delivery of civil / electrical design packages to agree quality, cost and P6 programme and in accordance with the Engineering Design Process

**Criteria of the Principal Designer**:

- Track record in design co-ordination with experience in mainstream engineering construction including electrical Networks
- Hold, or be working towards the NEBOSH Construction Certificate
- Technical qualifications at HNC/HND or equivalent experience
- Hold a full valid UK driving licence

If you are interested in going forward for this role please send us your C.V.