AddressPrincipal Engineer (VN3507)
Business Area: Administration
Vacancy Base: Watford
County: Hertfordshire
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5
Activities of the team/department that this role will operate in;
- Support the department head in the leadership of the design department.
- Demonstrate a high standard of engineering judgment, application and innovation.
- Provide engineering solutions, at pre-construction and construction phases of projects.
- Ensure the practicality and commercial viability of design solutions.
- Carry out design in accordance with codes and standards.
- Interpret and communicate health and safety information.
Purpose of the role and your responsibilities;
- Assign work to individuals or set up teams to complete sections of work.
- Promote and participate in knowledge share events.
- Develop client focus, and satisfaction of client goals.
- Anticipate design and check requirements for a whole project.
- Anticipate design and check durations and make decisions to allocate and priorities work.
- Target opportunities to exceed expectations.
- Develop personal values as an extension of the ICE Code of Professional Conduct and encourage these values in team members.
- Maintain continuing professional development.
- Conduct multi-disciplinary research beyond personal experience to maximise understanding before appraising options.
- Recognise the limitations of industry standard guidance and practice and be able to operate beyond these.
- Engage in the creative and innovative development of engineering technologies and procedures. Promote innovative solutions within the team and across the group.
- Lead a design team.
- Take a leading technical role in tenders and PQQs, including contributions to technical submissions.
- Recognise the implications of changes and where necessary re-organise own and others work to respond in a timely manner.
- Plan and utilise resources, including monitoring and evaluation.
- Contribute to business development.
- Be able to advise on the procurement of external consultants.
- Identify opportunities for challenge of provided information in order to make savings and propose suitable design and methodology changes.
- Prepare cost comparisons for different solutions, for use in the decision-making process.
- Engage with the supply chain to produce advantageous solutions.
- Use sound and unbiased reasoning in decisions that have a commercial impact.
- Use advanced analysis techniques to develop detailed solutions.
- Carry out design and support other designers, using standards, codes of practice and industry guidance.
- Where authorised by the Engineering Director or Head of Temporary Works, carry out design incorporating departures from standard.
- Lead health and safety aspects of design.
- Ensure clear communication of residual risks.
- Understand what BIM is, Understand the implications and value proposition of BIM within your organization.
- Assist the business/project in achieving the objectives/targets set in the Taylor Woodrow Carbon Strategy within your specific work activities.
Formal qualifications required;
- Minimum BSC in civil/structural engineering and chartership
- Structural and geotechnical related software
- Minimum 8 years experience in design of temporary works and permanent works.
- Temporary and permanent works, geotechnical, structural and roads.
- Proactive, target driven, team builder, working to targets and deadlines, driven the team to achieve the KPIs for the BU
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Internal applicants are asked to let their line manager know about their interest in this role before they apply.
Internal applicants are asked to let their line manager know about their interest in this role before they apply.
