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Design Engineer (Sizewell C)

Job Category:  Engineering
Contract Partner Company:  Civil Works Alliance (CWA)
Employing Company:  BOUYGUES / LAING O'ROURKE / BALFOUR BEATTY

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Design Engineer (Sizewell C)
Civil Works Alliance
Sizewell C


Principal Accountabilities, Activities and Decisions


Leading, resourcing and managing Enabling & Earthworks project packages and teams. Input to and management of concept and design packages, liaising with Main Civils team, EWE and designers (Atkins and COWI) to deliver high quality, complete packages for delivery by the operational teams. Ensuring plans and designs meet the requirements and are code compliant. 


Overview of Plaxis content. Suggesting value engineering and risk reduction ideas. Assisting in the development and implementation of quality programmes including instrumentation and monitoring assessment.


•    Define the requirements and scope of specific packages of design work and ensure closure of requirements through to commissioning and handover
•    Champion 'Safe by Design' with the design supply chain, to maximise the opportunity to improve the health, safety and wellbeing of all those engaged in and impacted by the project
•    Operate within the processes and procedures of the civils programme  
•    Management and reporting of design delivery performance for time, cost, quality and other performance objectives as required from the supply chain, including the application of robust change management. 
•    Interface with all Internal civils programme functions to ensure project and statutory requirements are understood and implemented and recognised in the design. 
•    Ensure that third party requirements and approvals required during the design stage are discharged appropriately
•    Engage with other civils programme functions including commercial, procurement, project controls, construction delivery, H, S&W etc. to ensure that technical issues are suitably understood and recognised 
•    Hold regular collaborative meetings with the designers and wider teams to: review and share problems / issues, promote innovative thinking, to capture lessons learnt / best practice, to provide technical support and to ensure consistency of design.
•    Challenge the designers' proposals with a view to de-risking technical solutions, to promote and facilitate emergence of value engineering solutions, leading to reductions of quantities, costs and optimisation of the construction programme.
•    Coordinate the inputs and interfaces of the Technical Assurance Team to ensure a Verified, Validated and Configured design.


Requirements:


Essential


•    Degree Level qualified and/ or 5-10 years' experience in this specific field


Desirable


•    Professional accreditation and/ or sector specific MSc degree


Dimensions


•    Competent technical knowledge and experience of design,
•    Ability (and experience) to lead and manage multi-disciplinary/organisation design teams
•    Ability to communicate and engage effectively at a range of levels: Management Team, client departments, design delivery teams, third party authorisers etc, 
•    In depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements and budget control
•    Clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties  
 

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience


•    Competent technical knowledge and experience of design,
•    Ability (and experience) to lead and manage multi-disciplinary/organisation design teams
•    Ability to communicate and engage effectively at a range of levels: Management Team, client departments, design delivery teams, third party authorisers etc, 
•    In depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements, and budget control
•    Clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

The SZC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project. #SZCJobs

Design Engineer (Sizewell C)
Civil Works Alliance
Sizewell C


Principal Accountabilities, Activities and Decisions


Leading, resourcing and managing Enabling & Earthworks project packages and teams. Input to and management of concept and design packages, liaising with Main Civils team, EWE and designers (Atkins and COWI) to deliver high quality, complete packages for delivery by the operational teams. Ensuring plans and designs meet the requirements and are code compliant. 


Overview of Plaxis content. Suggesting value engineering and risk reduction ideas. Assisting in the development and implementation of quality programmes including instrumentation and monitoring assessment.


•    Define the requirements and scope of specific packages of design work and ensure closure of requirements through to commissioning and handover
•    Champion 'Safe by Design' with the design supply chain, to maximise the opportunity to improve the health, safety and wellbeing of all those engaged in and impacted by the project
•    Operate within the processes and procedures of the civils programme  
•    Management and reporting of design delivery performance for time, cost, quality and other performance objectives as required from the supply chain, including the application of robust change management. 
•    Interface with all Internal civils programme functions to ensure project and statutory requirements are understood and implemented and recognised in the design. 
•    Ensure that third party requirements and approvals required during the design stage are discharged appropriately
•    Engage with other civils programme functions including commercial, procurement, project controls, construction delivery, H, S&W etc. to ensure that technical issues are suitably understood and recognised 
•    Hold regular collaborative meetings with the designers and wider teams to: review and share problems / issues, promote innovative thinking, to capture lessons learnt / best practice, to provide technical support and to ensure consistency of design.
•    Challenge the designers' proposals with a view to de-risking technical solutions, to promote and facilitate emergence of value engineering solutions, leading to reductions of quantities, costs and optimisation of the construction programme.
•    Coordinate the inputs and interfaces of the Technical Assurance Team to ensure a Verified, Validated and Configured design.


Requirements:


Essential


•    Degree Level qualified and/ or 5-10 years' experience in this specific field


Desirable


•    Professional accreditation and/ or sector specific MSc degree


Dimensions


•    Competent technical knowledge and experience of design,
•    Ability (and experience) to lead and manage multi-disciplinary/organisation design teams
•    Ability to communicate and engage effectively at a range of levels: Management Team, client departments, design delivery teams, third party authorisers etc, 
•    In depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements and budget control
•    Clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties  
 

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience


•    Competent technical knowledge and experience of design,
•    Ability (and experience) to lead and manage multi-disciplinary/organisation design teams
•    Ability to communicate and engage effectively at a range of levels: Management Team, client departments, design delivery teams, third party authorisers etc, 
•    In depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements, and budget control
•    Clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.

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