Project Engineer

Sheffield

£42,000 – £50,000 + Company car or Car allowance

A main contractor who’s renowned for significant investment into their employees, have a brilliant opportunity for a Project engineer to join their business and work on a portfolio of rail projects across the LNE region – with works commencing near the Sheffield area. With an aim to create an exciting place to work whilst executing the job well, you can guarantee you’ll be joining an award-winning company which will provide you with a fulfilling career and a successful future.

This company have seen tremendous growth over the last few years, becoming one of the most recognisable contractors in the rail industry. Having earnt status as a contractor who deliver work with the utmost speed and quality, their clients consistently award them heaps of work.

The Opportunity

Reporting into the Regional Engineering Manager, you will take responsibility for providing technical advice and support to the project teams across civil engineering rail projects. You will have great focus on bringing innovation and challenge to the design process, supporting development throughout the planning and construction phases of individual schemes.

What is expected of me as Project engineer?

• The site-based aspect of the role will see you working with Project Management teams to offer site technical support, ensuring that robust and appropriate quality and inspection and test plans are in place and being adhered to.
• The office-based aspect of this role will see you discharging duties of either PE, CPE, or CRE Construction (under mentorship where required), and to support the project and engineering management teams with the production of critical safety, technical and quality paperwork.
• You will provide project engineering support to the engineering, project management and site management functions, operating in a technical capacity to assure designs are in accordance with AFC’s, QITP’s are aligned to specification, quality management controls are robust and are recorded through appropriate handback/acceptance criteria and technical methodologies are well developed and safe.
• Provide support to the project management functions to either produce site safety and technical/quality paperwork such as WPP, TBS, permits or QITP’s and checks for CRE approval; or undertake the review and approval process for these key deliverables, to support the project.

The Company

As one of the UK’s fastest growing private contractors, you can be assured to be joining a company saturated with success. Winning contractual awards and industry awards year upon year, the turnover in the business is ever increasing and thanking their employees with exceptional career opportunities and rewards is one of the ways they epitomize their values.

With divisions in both Rail and Construction, the company’s workload stretches across the UK and includes huge schemes for Network rail as well as an extensive portfolio of large civil engineering projects so you can be assured that you’ll always have a busy workload to get your teeth gripped into.

Package:

For this position, the company is offering a basic salary £42,000 to £50,000 per annum dependant on experience, the choice of a company car or car allowance (£4800), 26 days holiday + bank holidays with two optional charity days and the option to buy more holidays, funding and support with professional memberships, 4.5% matched pension rising to 7.5%, Life assurance and an Agile working policy.

On top of this generous package, you can expect to join a company that truly take extra care with their employees and have a proven track record of rewarding people in their career.

About you

It is a given that you’ll be a technically astute professional from a Rail background – whether this is as a Project engineer, Senior engineer, Sub/Site agent, CRE etc with experience working on site.

You’ll have a proven track record working on civil engineering rail projects involving disciplines such as structures, earthworks, platforms, stations, bridges etc.

To fulfil your long-term goals, this position is suited for somebody aiming to progress down the technical route within Engineering becoming a CRE and/or CEM in the future.

You can either apply directly or email your CV to <email address removed>. Following your application shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an initial telephone interview.