As part of a wider engineering team comprising Project Manager, Construction Manager, Senior Engineers, Engineer / Graduate Engineers, and Apprentice / Undergraduate placement Engineers, the Engineer will assist the senior staff and supervise the junior/trainee staff to ensure the site earthmoving teams have up to date information and the required documentation to allow work to proceed safely, on time and productively. They will ensure accurate records are compiled to fulfil our obligations with regard to quality assurance.
The Engineer will be expected to form a good relationship with their equivalents and upwards in the Client team, to ensure maximum co-operation and co-ordination is achieved to enable the works to progress smoothly with minimal disruption.
Good working relationships will be required with the other Blackwell team disciplines – Surveying, Commercial, Planning, Quality, and Health, Safety and Environment.
Mission statement:
Our mission is for Blackwell Earthmoving to be the specialist contractor of choice within UK major infrastructure.
Our values:
- Responsible: Sharing ownership and accountability for Project outcomes at strategic, corporate and individual levels by engendering a collaborative, honest and transparent approach.
- Respectful: Emphasising the wellbeing of those whom we encounter by understanding and recognising the sensitivities and values of other Project parties, stakeholders as well as our people.
- Relentless: Adopting a high energy delivery-focussed approach throughout the lifecycle of the Project without falter.
- Resilient: Ensure that we persevere when challenges and obstacles arise, which we expect in the unpredictable nature of earthmoving.
Key activities and responsibilities of the role:
- Higher qualification in Civil Engineering, Land Surveying or related discipline
- Good facility with basic mathematics (trigonometry and basic statistics)
- Strength with Microsoft Excel particularly and the MS Office suite generally
- Clear, concise, precise communication (written) of technical information
- Engineering sketching skills (including by hand)
- Personal time management including workload planning
- Use of GPS survey and setting out highly desirable
- Writing risk assessments and task briefings in collaboration with colleagues
- Providing the QA/QC function for civil engineering works (preferably earthworks)
Essential:
- A strong leader with the ability to empathise
- Degree/HNC in a relevant subject or qualified by experience
- Substantial responsibility for the operation of NEC Option C contracts
- Considerable experience of civil engineering construction
- A skilled negotiator
- CSCS Card
- Driving License
Desirable:
- Earthworks contracting experience
- Experience in the rail environment
- 1 years experience working with a civils contractor in a site role including survey and set-out
Full understanding of dispute avoidance techniques