Design Co-Ordinator / Engineer – Civil Engineering

My Client a regional civil engineering contractor is seeking a Design Co-ordinator / Engineer. Due to the nature of the role, you will be based from the HO but with travel to projects within the region

Working wholly within the design management team, providing a design management service to successfully awarded schemes where there are significant contractor designed elements.

Main Duties

• Management of site staff operatives and sub-contractors

• Provide assistance and advice regarding design input required at tender stage

• Assist in building designer/and integrated teams

• Manage and review consultant and sub-contractor design work and assist in maintaining the approved design consultant register

• Provide advice and assistance to site staff on design matters

• Provide advice and assistance on planning

• Advise on appropriateness of technical solutions

• Act as Design Co-ordinator during the tender period, and construction stage, as required

• Advise on design responsibilities under CDM 2015

Are you the person we are looking for?

• Management of site staff operatives and sub-contractors

• Good collaborative communication skills

• Ideally an engineering background which allows them to envisage how schemes are built

• A liking for detail

• Programming software skills

• Awareness of applicable CDM Regs requirements

• An understanding of the need to work to accepted design processes, procedures, guidance, codes and standards

• A general understanding of common construction specifications

• Management skills to encourage designers to provide on time, right first time, solutions