Project Engineer, Civil Engineering

United Infrastructure is a dynamic and rapidly expanding business, focused on delivering critical infrastructure projects, across the utility and social infrastructure sectors.

Our team of highly skilled and hardworking specialists deliver innovative solutions to the complex challenges our clients face.

Our company is split into two business areas:

Utility Infrastructure –
Our team of Utility Infrastructure specialists design, build and maintain critical water, energy (gas), power and telecoms infrastructure, for the UK’s largest network owners and operators.

Social Infrastructure
- Our team of Social Infrastructure specialists revitalise homes and communities by carrying out a wide range of work, from retrofit to refurbishment, and maintenance.

The Project Engineer will be responsible for managing a projects engineering and technical aspects. Including coordinating with various teams, managing technical works schedules, ensuring adherence to quality standards and providing technical guidance to team members.

The individual will be technical lead and support the Project / Construction Manager in the effective management of a large programme of works on gas transmission and distribution contracts nationwide.

The role will be a hybrid role, based at the Peterborough office but include / require site visits weekly as part of the typical day to day responsibilities. The successful candidate must be willing to travel regularly.

The role will align to an individual with a proven record of site experience and site engineering experience, looking to eventually progress to project management, who can take lead on technical delivery as part of the project delivery team.

The individual will also need to understand the commercial impacts of the works, scope and subcontract management, escalating risks and inputting to the wider team commercial management of the project.

Specific Responsibilities

Technical lead of all project sites, ensuring:

• Responsible for technical delivery of project requirements.
• Project level Temporary Works Lead working closely with Construction Manager to ensure design, requirements and implantation are done/planned to mitigate delays/risks to safety on site.
• Drawing registers are up to date, maintained and site teams are working to correct details.
• Drawing technical reviews / dimension checks against design data, raising technical queries to eliminate delays from insufficient information and management / monitoring of RFIs/TQs processes.
• Design / Constructability reviews/support with project team through design phase and construction phase.
• Identify and escalate in timely manner any design/scope ambiguity / change to commercial team.
• Project based procurement lead of key technical procurement items, supported by buying team and Construction Manager. Working with commercial team to maintain accurate procurement schedule.
• For each project ensure robust processes to minimize defects during and after construction and ensure defects are dealt with promptly.
• Work closely with QA/QC project team to manage and deliver ITP processes, conduct vendor/supplier visits, collation of QA/QC documentation and Databook requirements.
• Produce and manage efficient as-built mark-up process through the project delivery.
• Setting out civil works via the use of GPS co-ordinates and point cloud. Supported by mechanical engineering support for critical elements of work.
• With support from Construction Manager, ensure all service information is current/updated and available for each site team. Support perimetry requirements/collation where requested by Construction Manager.
• Work proactively with project management team and project planner to ensure technical deliverables/items are planned in advanced, escalations raised when programme items are at risk, and attend programme update meetings.
• Technical reviews/support of subcontractor works, tender returns and support in production of subcontract scoping documentation.

Project / Construction Management Support:

• Accountable for tasks assigned by the project manager or construction manager which facilitate the successful management of projects, attending pre-start…