Senior Design Engineer
Hybrid- Office is Birmingham- Monthly Meet ups
Inside IR35
12 Months Initial contract
Travelling Expenses.


Role Outline
To coordinate and support the design team during project design and execution phases, and to support the tendering team to ensure that safe, robust, and optimal designs and documentation are produced.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Large budget Project experience £100m+
Knowledge of Transmission or Distribution practices (400kV to 11 kV)
HNC/HND in electrical engineering or equivalent
Good team work, Analytical and communication skills
Capable of working to tight time scales

Job Role
To coordinate the design team across all disciplines.
To liaise with project management on engineering budgets and to provide forecast cost to complete estimates and associated justification to changes in expenditure.
To manage the programme and to interface with the planning engineers for design.
Providing forecasts for completion and resource planning.
To approve documentation in accordance with the contractual requirements of the project.
To coordinate and chair design reviews and hazard reviews.
To identify and manage additional risks across functions that may not be apparent to individual Designers. Evaluates risks and opportunities, strategizes mitigation of the risks.
Supports the Project Manager in overall project risk and opportunity assessments and implementation of resulting actions.
To undertake the Principal Designer Representative on projects.
Works with customers to shape and deliver solutions, seeking feedback and innovating with the customer to drive and deliver improvements.
Oversees the creation of subcontracts and manages the subcontractors jointly with other involved functions, including supply chain management.
Supports the Project Manager in overall project risk and opportunity assessments and implementation of resulting actions.
To undertake the Principal Designer Representative on projects.
Works with customers to shape and deliver solutions, seeking feedback and innovating with the customer to drive and deliver improvements.
Oversees the creation of subcontracts and manages the subcontractors jointly with other involved functions, including supply chain management.

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