Structural Project Lead

4 weeks ago

Sale, Trafford, United Kingdom Laing O'Rourke Full time
Job Description

Job Title: Project Lead Structural Engineer

Location: [Location not specified]

Department: Temporary Works Design Office

Reports to: Principal Engineer (Design Team Leader) or General Manager

Job Summary

The Project Lead Engineer (PLE) is a key member of the Temporary Works Design Office, responsible for the production of drawings, calculations, and specifications for a range of temporary and permanent works schemes. The PLE will provide buildability, construction methodology, and value engineering advice for live projects and tenders, as required by the business.

Key Responsibilities
  • Commercial and Contractual:
    • Ensure designs are economic through the application of knowledge and experience.
    • Manage own and subordinates' time in respect of charging, use of supplier design services, use of appropriate software, etc.
    • Assume full responsibility for routine administration of the workload of their design team.
    • Manage any outsourcing of work to design suppliers, where appropriate.
  • Safety:
    • Ensure all design complies with relevant health and safety legislation, e.g. HSWA, CDM, LOLER, PUWER, EU Directives, etc., and maintain a sound, up-to-date knowledge of legislation.
    • Fully comply with the company Safety and Quality Management Systems.
    • Assume full responsibility for engineering output of their team, by allocating competent design staff to undertake design and checking, commensurate with the design complexity and construction risk.
    • Produce suitable and sufficient information required for the safe execution of the design.
    • Undertake Design Risk Assessments, ensuring construction risks are identified and addressed within the design.
    • Ensure any Residual Risks inherent within the design are clearly communicated to the customer.
    • Detail any Performance Constraints (e.g. safe working loads, rates of pour, etc.) on drawings.
    • Identify any Safety Critical Components, including recommendations for specific inspections and/or tests required to demonstrate adequacy.
    • Provide Construction Sequence Information for use in site method statements, task briefings, and risk assessments.
    • Review Design against any in-house and/or externally published safety or technical alerts.
    • Where required, provide Inspection Checklists for erection, use, operation, and dismantling.
    • Where appropriate, carry out site inspections during erection/prior to use to ensure that the construction has been executed in accordance with design requirements.
    • Undertake engineering reviews on other design teams' outputs, as required.
  • Develop Innovative Construction Methods and Engineering Solutions:
    • Provide value engineering in determining the best solutions, utilizing FE analysis and 3D modeling where appropriate.
    • Design to relevant industry standards and published guidance with experience and competence in structural steel, timber, reinforced concrete.
    • Provide geotechnical advice on ground retention, temporary slopes, battered or benched excavations, use of imported and site-won engineering fills, reinforced earth, working platforms, and haul roads.
    • Select appropriate and applicable Codes, Standards, and methods of analysis to carry out the design.
    • Consider all relevant load cases, including temporary stability load cases during erection and dismantling or demolition.
    • Oversee the work of junior design engineers and carry out design checks on schemes produced by others, including independent checks, as may be required by the Highways Agency, Network Rail, etc.
    • Ensure that permanent works design assumptions are not compromised by proposed methods of construction.
    • Communicate temporary works methodology clearly with the permanent works designer and/or Principal Designer.
    • Provide outline methodologies and temporary works schemes in an appropriate level of detail to enable estimators and planners to price and schedule tenders with sufficient allowance for construction method.
    • Provide technical input into tender submissions, as required.
    • Provide technical support to contracts on methods and temporary works.
    • Produce drawings and design deliverables through effective use of CAD, BIM, and other support resources available in the organization.
    • Contribute to business improvement initiatives within the department to drive process efficiency, e.g. through the use of software, automation of routine tasks, etc.
  • Staff Training and Development:
    • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry matters and new developments through participation in research, self-study, professional development activities, seminars, committees, etc., as appropriate and maintain CPD records.
    • Develop junior design engineers by identifying training and development needs on an individual basis and providing mentoring and career support.
    • Assist in the production and development of training modules to meet business unit objectives.
    • Deliver temporary works training to site-based engineering staff, as required.
  • Team Management:
    • Set staff performance and development goals and monitor progress.
    • Undertake staff performance reviews in accordance with relevant HR processes, and ensure any areas of concern are promptly addressed.
    • Ensure all routine staff administration is completed in a timely manner, using the appropriate company HR and IT systems, including monitoring and recording annual leave/sick leave, training requests, IT requisitions, etc.
  • Quality Assurance and Information & Change Control:
    • Ensure compliance with all quality procedures, including checking and approval of drawings and calculations, production of certificates, etc.
    • Ensure all necessary document control and filing is completed, in conjunction with departmental document controllers.
    • Assist in and implement the continuous improvement and development of quality procedures.

Qualifications: A professional qualification (e.g. CEng, MICE, MIStructE) is desirable in order to fulfill 3rd party requirements for certification of schemes (e.g. Network Rail, HA, LUL, National Grid, etc.).

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