Contracts Engineer

Contracts Engineer – Birmingham

The Company:

This contract’s engineer role is with one of the UK’s leading civil and infrastructure main contractors. Currently working across numerous sectors this role is within their major projects division that builds £multi-million infrastructure schemes. They have contracts on a national basis and this requirement is for someone to work in Birmingham on a phase of HS2.

The Project:

The project covers the northern 90km section of Phase 1 of the overall HS2 scheme to provide a new high-speed rail connection between London and the North of England.

• 9km of Diaphragm Walls at 9 individual structures.
• Secant/ contiguous structures totalling 150,000 lin. m of piling.
• Plunge Columns, Tension Piles, Ground Anchors, Soil Nails and Ground Improvement.
• Piled bridges & viaducts.

This Role:

As a Contract’s Engineer your responsibilities will include:

• To ensure that contracts are carried out in line with company procedures and ensure that sites are managed safely and efficiently.
• Keeping in contact with the client to ensure quality work and within budget
• On-site management of projects covering technical administration and commercial aspects of the project.
• Liaising with plant yard over costs and damages.
• Liaise with labour Co-ordinator to ensure that the sites have a sufficient labour force capable of carrying out tasks.
• Prepare budgets to ensure that the job will return sufficient money and to ensure that there has been no shortfalls within the estimate,
• Prepare job specific contract plans / ITPs & RAMs
• Liaise with plant yard to organise plant requirements.
• Liaise with clients keeping them up to date on site works and any changes in costs/extension of time/extra work.
• Monitor test cube results to ensure that concrete is within specification.
• Assist Quantity Surveyors on final accounts and weekly values, liaise with them to ensure all changes, variations etc. are dealt with.
• Discuss with foreman the design requirements ensuring that he fully understands the requirements.
• Keep up to date with all correspondence ensuring that we are working from the most recent drawings/design.
• Produce schedules from information taken from engineer drawings.
• Monitoring and reporting on progress of works.
• Taking handover information from the Estimator producing budget, communication plant and labour requirements to plant yard and labour resource manager.
• Check that ground conditions are as assumed in the design calculations, if in any doubt refer to design department.
• Update weekly cost sheet and report under performance immediately.

The Plus Points

• This is a great opportunity to join one of the market leaders in the sector where there is genuine opportunity for progression. A competitive salary and package are also on offer along with subsistence if out of region.