Design Engineer

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Design Engineer (Sizewell C)
Civil Works Alliance
Sizewell C

Principal Accountabilities, Activities and Decisions

Leading, resourcing and managing Enabling & Earthworks project packages and teams. Input to and management of concept and design packages, liaising with Main Civils team, EWE and designers (Atkins and COWI) to deliver high quality, complete packages for delivery by the operational teams. Ensuring plans and designs meet the requirements and are code compliant. 

Overview of Plaxis content. Suggesting value engineering and risk reduction ideas. Assisting in the development and implementation of quality programmes including instrumentation and monitoring assessment.

•    Define the requirements and scope of specific packages of design work and ensure closure of requirements through to commissioning and handover

•    Champion 'Safe by Design' with the design supply chain, to maximise the opportunity to improve the health, safety and wellbeing of all those engaged in and impacted by the project

•    Operate within the processes and procedures of the civils programme  

•    Management and reporting of design delivery performance for time, cost, quality and other performance objectives as required from the supply chain, including the application of robust change management. 

•    Interface with all Internal civils programme functions to ensure project and statutory requirements are understood and implemented and recognised in the design. 

•    Ensure that third party requirements and approvals required during the design stage are discharged appropriately

•    Engage with other civils programme functions including commercial, procurement, project controls, construction delivery, H, S&W etc. to ensure that technical issues are suitably understood and recognised 

•    Hold regular collaborative meetings with the designers and wider teams to: review and share problems / issues, promote innovative thinking, to capture lessons learnt / best practice, to provide technical support and to ensure consistency of design.

•    Challenge the designers' proposals with a view to de-risking technical solutions, to promote and facilitate emergence of value engineering solutions, leading to reductions of quantities, costs and optimisation of the construction programme.

•    Coordinate the inputs and interfaces of the Technical Assurance Team to ensure a Verified, Validated and Configured design.

Requirements:

Essential

•    Degree Level qualified and/ or 5-10 years' experience in this specific field

Desirable

•    Professional accreditation and/ or sector specific MSc degree

Dimensions

•    Competent technical knowledge and experience of design,

•    Ability (and experience) to lead and manage multi-disciplinary/organisation design teams

•    Ability to communicate and engage effectively at a range of levels: Management Team, client departments, design delivery teams, third party authorisers etc, 

•    In depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements and budget control

•    Clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties  
 

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience

•    Competent technical knowledge and experience of design,

•    Ability (and experience) to lead and manage multi-disciplinary/organisation design teams

•    Ability to communicate and engage effectively at a range of levels: Management Team, client departments, design delivery teams, third party authorisers etc, 

•    In depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements, and budget control

•    Clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.