Senior Project Engineer

About the Role

This is a senior engineering role responsible for leading and managing the delivery of high-quality, compliant and cost-effective engineering design solutions for substation and utility infrastructure projects.

The role spans the full project lifecycle from tender and feasibility through to detailed design, construction support and handover. You will be responsible for coordinating and assuring integrated designs aligned with client requirements, industry standards and programme constraints.

You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating with internal stakeholders and external partners to ensure successful project delivery.

The scope covers substation design (Civils, Primary, Protection and Control, Communications and MEP elements) relating to distribution and transmission systems in the range 11kV to 132kV typically.

• Lead and manage the design assurance and delivery of design packages to agreed contractual timescales
• Supporting projects from tender through to completion
• Co-ordinating multi-disciplinary designs across technical interfaces
• Preparing and reviewing engineering documentation including RFIs and technical queries
• Identifying and managing design risks, contract changes and supporting CEs/EWNs
• Collaborating with clients, suppliers and internal teams
• Mentoring and supporting junior engineers
• Supporting project reporting, reviews and stakeholder communication

Monday - Friday, 40 contractual hours per week. This role will be offered on a remote working basis with occasional travel to BRUSH Group locations across the UK for team meetings & site visits. Attendance at our office locations may be required to support onboarding, training and development where necessary therefore candidates should live within a comfortable commuting distance to either our Cardiff/Glasgow/Hook or Loughborough office locations.

• Managing design team workload across allocated projects
• Establishing an appropriate design team for each project based on its scope and complexity
• Allocating work packages to design engineers for completion
• Managing progress and ensuring timely delivery of design outputs
• Identifying design issues (changes and risks) and liaising with the designer, PM and commercial colleagues to resolve
• Be the design technical point of contact for all stakeholders
• Prepare and provide project technical summaries and progress reports relating to design as required
• Manage technical administration activities relating to design i.e. document control etc.

• Ensure that all contract design engineering requirements are captured
• Manage design standards compliance and standards updates
• Lead design verification and validation activities to ensure that all technical requirements have been met by designs
• Ensuring that design engineering assurance activities are completed
• Ensure engineering quality processes are implemented and met for all design outputs
• Review design TQ’s and RFI’s prior to submission
• Review client design review comments for scope, engineering, commercial or schedule impacts and liaise with commercial to raise an appropriate EWN or CE to cover any changes
• Scheduling, leading and managing interdisciplinary design reviews and managing subsequent actions
• Liaising with operations teams regarding construction methodology, testing and commissioning optimisation and methodology impact on design philosophy

• Assisting with ensuring the design WBS matches the contracted scope.
• Assisting with inputting the list of design deliverables into the programme
• Assisting with developing the programme of works
• Assisting with integrating risk mitigation activities relating to design into the programme
• Ensure that activity hours relating to work packages are communicated and adhered to by designers
• Identifying schedule risks and highlighting them to the PM
• Supporting the planner to update activity progress
• Supporting the planner to understand and implement any schedule tactical changes to mitigate delays

• Assist commercial colleagues with estimating resource type and numbers for each project
• Allocating resources to…