Project Engineer

Job Description

Are you an Engineer who enjoys being part of the delivery on site? Would you like a company to support your development and make you a complete engineer? Do you want to work on a project you can showcase in your CV?

As a Project Engineer you will safely and effectively manage a set of tasks and will be technically responsible for the outcome. Reporting directly to the Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for the management and supervision of 2 to 4 Senior Engineers and any sub-contractors. A lot of our projects utilise self-delivery. This means less reliance on subcontractors and utilising our own workforce and engineering professionals. This includes digital engineering (BIM), off site manufacturing (DFMA), Plant, Design and many other in-house functions.

Project Engineer duties:

  • Managing a team of between 2 and 4 Senior Engineers
  • Able to utilise a Digital Engineering model to provide information to create Visual Method Statements and Visual Task sheets. Confidence to show other team members.
  • Fully implements and ensures compliance with the LOR Management of Temporary works procedure on projects. Explains these procedures to others.
  • Determine the most appropriate methods of dimensional control taking advice from specialists where appropriate. Ensure setting out data is controlled.
  • Can interrogate and transfer setting out data from 3D CAD data.
  • Determine requirement for and format of as-built surveys and reports. Defines scope of survey to demonstrate compliance.
  • Produces and/ or ensures that ITP's are produced, available and implemented. Ensures that they fully address specification and contractual obligations.
  • Ensures that project and company quality procedures are adhered
  • Utilise and recommend best engineering methods
  • Design process knowledge
  • Produces and approves method statements and risk assessments
  • Procurement

Qualifications / Experience:

  • Degree in Civil Engineering Discipline, other construction related degree, or an industry recognised technical or engineering qualification (e.g. HNC, HND, NVQ level 4) plus demonstrable experience in a construction delivery environment.
  • Professionally qualified / chartered by a recognised body
  • Extensive Rail project experience
  • Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

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