Details:
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Location: DE21 Chaddesden Derby
- Date: 1 week ago
Description:
Our client has a terrific opportunity for a Senior Design Engineer (Geotechnical/Piling) to join their team.
As a senior member of the design team, you will develop bids and tenders to secure work for the business. You'll be responsible for creating innovative and challenging ground engineering solutions for each bid, maximizing our opportunities, and devising solutions that offer added value to the client while meeting their specifications. The business demands the safest and most efficient solutions for every tender and contract, achieving the desired quality metrics and adhering to the client's delivery requirements.
What you'll be doing
Other key responsibilities will be:
* Ensuring compliance with design codes and standards, while supporting junior team members.
* Collaborating with estimators to support the work-winning process and develop solutions that meet client requirements.
* Creating 'winning' solutions through technical expertise and fostering key customer relationships.
* Reviewing client drawings and specifications to prepare designs that are both code-compliant and meet client needs.
* Examining tender documents and submission requirements.
* Evaluating project and technical risks associated with the schemes.
* Discussing and reviewing designs with the operations team to highlight and incorporate essential methods, programs, outputs, and plant selection.
* Performing designer risk assessments.
* Understanding market design solutions and benchmarking our solutions to enhance our success rate.
* Finalizing contract designs for submissions to Structural Engineers after contract awards.
* Making site visits and conducting technical audits to ensure compliance.
Who we're looking for
Ideally you will have the following:
* Civil engineering degree or similar
* Substantial experience working in piling industry or the geotechnical industry
* A valid CSCS card.
* Experience of designing geotechnical foundations (load bearing pile and retaining walls)
* In depth technical and market knowledge of Ground Engineering
* Ability to develop Repute and Plaxis abilities and train others in these activities
* Results driven, and able to identify and implement opportunities to increase sales and profit or reduce costs
For further information regarding this role contact the PRG office or apply online