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Job Description
Senior Engineer
Leading Building Contractors with operations throughout Ireland and the UK are seeking a Senior Engineer in Kilkenny to join their team.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work with like-minded people on award-winning multi-million-euro projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review designs for buildability and generate schedules of issues for each stage of construction.
- Ensure engineering and technical resources are available to fulfill all engineering duties.
- Liaise with design teams to ensure construction teams have required information.
- Generate and maintain RFI schedules and hold responsible people to account for providing required design information.
- Be aware of project programs and challenge designs to provide commercial benefits.
- Take responsibility for dimensional control and ensure robust checking systems are in place.
- Submit technical submissions within required timescales and take note of required approval/response periods.
- Generate Inspection and Test Plan Schedules and review method statements and risk assessments.
- Carry out necessary inspections and audits of works or delegate to suitable team members.
- Agree extent of responsibility in each package of works and advise on required scope of works.
- Ensure all contractors adopt safe systems of works and review method statements prior to works commencing.
- Take responsibility for coordination of all temporary works and maintain temporary works registers.
- Participate in weekly services engineering meetings and provide updates to project management teams.
- Understand individual package values and report on events that may impact these values.
- Ensure designs are coordinated to allow for all building services and flag problems to project managers or design coordinators.
- Understand and employ project/company quality systems to ensure required quality assurance.
- Ensure all contractors comply with required quality control and offer works for inspection to clients.
- Generate NCR registers and maintain during construction and hold responsible persons and contractors to account.
- Agree snagging processes with project managers and take responsibility for snagging programs.
- Provide schedules of lessons learnt to contracts/project managers at end of project and during execution.
- Provide assistance to close out subcontractor accounts and advise engineers on setting out methods and techniques.
- Take responsibility for selection and requisition of materials and plant for use during construction works.
- Carry out all work in accordance with health and safety and legal requirements.
- Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Manage performance of all employees assigned to you in accordance with legislation and company procedures.
- Attend and engage fully in learning and development activities and participate in company appraisal/performance review processes.
Requirements:
- Relevant Engineering Degree
- Ability to work within a dynamic team of professionals
- Ability to perform multiple tasks at a high level of quality
- Ability to work well within a deadline environment
- Minimum of 8 years' experience with a Main Contractor in Ireland or the UK
- Motivated individual that likes to work in a fast-moving environment
- Excellent communication skills
What Our Client Can Offer:
- Attractive terms of employment and competitive salary for the right candidate
- Excellent benefits
- Excellent career progression
- Opportunities to work on challenging projects and assignments