Civil/Structural Designer

Location: Teesside

Salary: Negotiable

Duration: Contract

Job Description

Our Client has an outstanding opportunity for an experienced professional to join our Civil and Structural Design department in Teesside as a Civil / Structural Designer on an agency basis.

The Individual

We are looking for a self motivated and able individual to work in a team who will be required to achieve goals and meet deadlines as well as manage motivate and inspire staff within the discipline.

Requirements

Advise the Principal Engineer Structures of:

• Any major slippages and their causes and proposed corrective action.
• All policy matters major technical problems and unresolved differences with other Groups.
• Requests for changes by the Client which may constitute a contract change.
• Review relevant project design work and in particular:
• Engineering Flow Diagrams.
• Piping Layouts and Model.
• Instrument and Electrical layout drawings.
• Civil layouts.
• Establish and maintain a filing system of project documents.
• Arrange for the transfer of records to storage microfilming and for destruction.

Responsibilities

• Execute assigned work in accordance with the Project Execution Plan applicable Project
• Procedures and Standards including Our client and/or Project Procedures on Safety and Quality Control within the manhour and cost budgets and the project schedule targets.
• Liaise with the Project Co-ordinating Engineer regarding the interpretation of Clients
• Specifications and Standards and prepare Project Specifications and Standards for design materials and construction.
• Review the project execution schedule developed by the Cost and Planning Department and to develop the detailed schedule for Civil Engineering and Design activities.
• Responsible for administration and immediate direction of civil engineering and design on a project.
• Participate in design and checking work as required.
• Ensure that quality of design and drawings produced for enquiry and construction purposes on projects assigned to him are of the specified standard.
• Prepare requisitions for sub-contracts and procurement of materials.
• Submit sub-contract requisitions to the Principal Engineer Structures for approval before issue.
• Perform technical audits on consultants reporting to him on the project.
• Prepare the master Sub-contract and Material Requisition Indexes update and issue it on a regular basis.
• Review Subcontractors and Suppliers quotations participate in clarification meetings prepare technical quotation evaluation and recommend the final technically acceptable
• Subcontractor in conjunction with Subcontracts / Materials Management Departments commercial quotation evaluation.
• Technically approve Purchase Order Variation Summaries.
• Hold co-ordination meetings with the Construction Department during the design phase and provide assistance to site when requested during the construction phase of a project.
• Carry out the following functions relative to Subcontractors documentation:
• Review document requirements and issue dates for major items with subcontractors at the pre-ward meeting.
• Compile a subcontractors Document Index update and issue it on a monthly basis.
• Distribute Subcontractors documentation to the various Engineering and Drawing Office
• Groups and co ordinate their comments.
• Prepare consolidated comments and return these to the Subcontractor.
• Correspond with the Contractor on technical matters and ensure that action is taken where necessary.
• Liaise with Subcontracts Department to obtain all necessary Subcontractor information in
• particular review with the Subcontracts Department late Subcontractor documentation for expediting.
• Liaise with the Project Engineer regarding information required by the Design Engineers and Drawing Office.
• Issue copies of final documentation for inclusion in the Mechanical Catalogues.
• Liaise with other Groups and Client as necessary but in particular:
• With the Piping Mechanical Equipment Instrument Utilities and with Project Groups in relation to Civil design to ensure compliance with Project Standards and requirements.
• With the Project Coordinating Engineer on matters of project co ordination and programme plant safety and work scope that could constitute a contract change.
• With the Clients Civil Engineer on technical matters.
• With Construction Department on matters relating to the design of temporary works and constructability.
• With Cost & Planning Department to ensure the Civil Engineering Schedule reflects the overall project execution schedule.
• With Quantity Surveying Group to provide documentation to enable the preparation of Bills of Quantities and ongoing monitoring of sub-contract costs.

If you are interested in this position please contract Richard Mann on:
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