Senior Engineer – Waterford
We are seeking a skilled Skipper of Construction Sites to lead an upcoming project in Waterford.
The successful candidate will work closely with the project/site management team and business leaders to ensure that all construction activities are carried out to the highest standards of quality, safety, and efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
* Review designs for buildability and generate schedules of issues for each stage of construction. Maintain these lists and update during construction, reviewing regularly with the Project Manager on site.
* Ensure the project has the required engineering and technical resources to fulfill all engineering duties. Provide necessary leadership to any engineering staff reporting directly to you. Understand mentoring and training requirements.
* Liaise with the design team to ensure the construction team has all the required information to construct the Works. Generate and maintain RFI (Request for Information) Schedules in line with programme requirements. Hold responsible people to account for providing required design information and responding. Provide clear reporting to the project management team to enable them to understand design status and impact if any to the project.
* Be fully aware of the Programme of the project. (Design, Procurement, Lead-in and Construction).
* Challenge the design to provide commercial benefit where possible.
* Take responsibility for dimensional control from ensuring the project has the required primary control information to the site engineering team providing any required setting out for the Works. Ensure robust checking systems are in place to continually monitor and provide required assurance on setting out.
* In conjunction with the site management, ensure all contractors adopt a safe system of works. Review all method statements for which you have responsibility prior to the works commencing. Take specific care in high-risk works involved.
* Ensure all site engineers request and receive timely information so that there is no impact to the programme.
* As the works progress, generate NCR (nonconformance report) registers and maintain during construction. Hold responsible persons and contractors to account and provide detailed weekly reports to the project management team and commercial team on progress/noncompliance.
* Prior to completion, agree snagging processes with the project manager. Take responsibility for snagging programmes as tasked by the PM. Hold subcontractors to account, close out all snags by timely so as not to affect handover.
* Provide schedules of lessons learnt to the Contracts/Project Manager at the end of the project and at relevant times during its execution. Build these schedules as the works proceed.
* Provide assistance to close out all subcontractor accounts with which you have involvement.
* Advise engineers on setting out methods and techniques, with the responsibility to develop them to their maximum potential.
Requirements:
* Relevant Engineering Degree
* Able to work within a dynamic team of professionals
* Able to perform multiple tasks at a high level of quality
* Able to work well within a deadline environment
* Minimum of 8 years' experience with a Main Contractor in Ireland or the UK.