PWS TECHNICAL SERVICES (UK) LTD
Design Engineer - Piling

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Design Engineer
This challenging and exciting opportunity requires an individual with a good technical background and demonstrable experience from within the piling, foundations and ground engineering sector. Applications are also invited from Site Engineers/Contracts Engineers from the piling sector wishing to progress their career in the design field. Home working is available for around 2 days a week, with the rest of the week in the office.
Due to continued expansion, an abundant pipeline of works, and the strategy to bring as many aspects of contracts in-house as possible to offer clients a holistic turnkey package, our client is now looking to appoint a Design Engineer. The successful candidate will be of a high calibre with enthusiasm and drive to make an impact. You must have strong technical acumen coupled with a general passion for ground engineering. You will also have a professional approach and a keen eye for detail, along with excellent communication and IT skills.
The Role
- Provide design solutions from work winning concept phase to practical completion of projects with the common goal to secure contracts and increase site net margin.
- Deliver competitive and innovative design solutions
- Ensure design efficiency and buildability
- Take accountability for creating designs that are not only efficient but also practical and buildable, with input from collaboration with the operational teams.
- Provide technical and design support to all departments and be fully integrated to the estimating teams and operational teams to aid their performance.
- Analyse the project input to reach an agreement and integrate this into a design solution.
- Contribute to the continued improvement of processes within the department
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- Degree level qualification in Civil or Geotechnical Engineering
- Experience of various piled foundation techniques
- Ability to understand and interpret GI-SI data
- Good level of commercial awareness.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work well under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Work independently as well are part of a team to deliver more projects
- Ability to prioritise and organise own work effectively
- Agility to work at speed on multiple workstreams concurrently and under pressure
- Resilient, assertive, humble, optimistic and open to change


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Our Client
Our client is a market leading ground engineering contractor. Their service offering includes restricted access and open sites and covers all disciplines and techniques for a wide variety of clients and project applications. They not only always complete projects successfully and to the highest of standards but also add value to their clients by giving them total support from the beginning to the end of each and every contract.
An attractive basic salary (commensurate with experience) plus extensive benefits package is on offer to the successful candidate, along with longevity and security of work and forward career progression given that our client possesses a significant contract pipeline for the long-term future and is firmly committed to continued growth over the next 5-10 years.
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