Contractors Responsible Engineer

• Job number:

  BBUK00931

• Company/Division:

  Rail

• Career area:

  Design Engineering

• Country:

  UK

• Location:

  UK, Wales, Pontypridd

• Contract type:

  Permanent

About the role

Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. Theyre an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Rail team as a Contractors Responsible Engineer and you'll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.

What you'll be doing

You will have the following accountabilities:

The CRE role and responsibilities are to be discharged in accordance with specific requirements of the Project, Network Rail standards, guidance notes and Project Advice Notes (PANs).

Overall accountability for the day-to-day management and co-ordination of the technical and engineering activities and technical assurance within a specific engineering discipline for the contract compliant with NR/L2/INI/02009 and associated technical standards;

• Confirm that the discipline design and / or construction complies with all applicable standards, legislation, contract requirements and specifications
• Manage the interface between design, construction and testing activities, whether it is a single appointment or multiple appointments for the single discipline
• CRE shall participate in the Interdisciplinary Design Check meetings (IDCs) with other all other discipline CREs to confirm that their design and the construction interfaces correctly with all other designs and construction activities and is safe to construct.
• Implement a process that confirms the competence and availability of resource to be employed on the project by the organisation eg; site managers, site engineers / technicians, construction staff / managers, checkers and approvers.
• Must implement and effective risk evaluation, assessment and briefing process.
• Define, manage and measure all site engineering and the Technical Assurance implementation including management of inspection and test plans and all supporting inspection documentation.
• Management and deployment of all technical staff and engineers to deliver their duties
• Controlling the provision of sufficient calibrated setting out and surveying equipment
• Control and maintenance of As Built red line drawings

Who we're looking for

You will have the following:

• Collaborative and influential leadership skills
• Good resource management and priority decision maker
• High customer focus and passionate right first time approach
• Undertakes performance improvement action where required.
• MICE CEng (preferred)
• Min HNC / HND Civil Engineering
• 2 years minimum relevant experience in similar role.
• Robust knowledge of site engineering practices and equipment
• Excellent managerial skills
• Good programme commercial and personable acumen.
• IT proficient
• Process control orientated
• Self-motivated
• Approachable and diplomatic

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

Our Rail business has an extensive legacy of rail expertise. Our teams safely deliver complex projects, from consultancy and design to all aspects of construction and maintenance. Using advanced plant and machinery, and unique innovations, we provide end-to-end solutions for our customers.

Our aim is to improve the passengers experience, and our teams create better journeys by increasing network capacity, improving reliability, and making our railways more efficient and sustainable.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.