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About The Role
The Temporary Works Design Lead in Bristol will oversee the technical department for a specialist contractor serving construction, civil engineering, and rail clients. This full-time, permanent position offers a salary of £70,000 to £75,000 plus flexible benefits. You will manage a team of engineers, checking designs and ensuring compliance across scaffold and temporary works schemes. The role suits a senior engineer ready to step into management, combining technical oversight with project coordination. You will liaise with principal contractors and maintain quality standards on varied infrastructure projects. Prior experience in temporary works design is essential, alongside leadership capability. This position suits a proactive professional seeking to shape departmental growth within an established firm.
Opportunity
We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Temporary Works Engineer to move into a design manager’s role and join our client in Bristol on a full-time, permanent basis.
Our client is a privately-owned scaffold and temporary works company that provide expert solutions within the Construction, Civil Engineering, and Rail sectors. The business has enjoyed great success and are proud to say that 80% of their work is based on repeat business or referrals. They have provided recent design and installation for companies such as Highways England, Network Rail, Skanska, and Balfour Beatty to name a few. The business is now looking ahead to the future of the company and have an impressive growth plan, beginning with the recruitment of an experienced engineer to lead and grow the Technical department. You will be responsible for managing the existing team, recruiting your own team as the business continues to grow as well as remaining in a hands-on design role.
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Key Duties
- Ensure temporary works management process is implemented, reviewed, and updated
- Technical delivery of projects
- Ensure a suitable temporary works design brief and programme of requirements is received
- Ensure design risks are considered and prepare Designers Risk Assessments
- Investigate alternative designs for temporary works, working with the site team
- Responsible for temporary works design requirements for the project and delivering them to time and budget
- Ensure that contract-specified design checks are carried out
- Contribute to the development of designs
- Provide strong technical support in value engineering temporary works and in identifying innovative and robust solutions
- Provide excellent customer service, be the company's focal point for technical queries
- Pre-tender support to commercial team, provide technical input to enable accurate tendering of future projects
- Write processes and checklists to assist in quality control and repeatability of design delivery
We are interested in speaking with motivated and ambitious individuals that are looking for an opportunity to join a growing business and make a real difference; this position gives you the opportunity to lead and grow the technical department.
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Person Specification
To be considered you will be experienced in temporary works design, or structural engineering with strong awareness of temporary works. This is a hands-on design role, so excellent AutoCAD skills with previous experience of design is essential.
Other Essential Criteria Include
- BEng / MEng in Civil, Structural, or Mechanical Engineering. BEng/MEng/BSc/MSc in a similar construction-related engineering discipline will be considered.
- Attained or working towards attaining CEng status (MIMechE, MICE, MIStructE)
- Ability to carry out detailed analysis of structures using both permissible stress and limit state theory
- Knowledge of the main requirements of Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) Regulations 2015
- Knowledge of the main requirements of The Work at Height Regulations (WAHR) 2005
- Knowledge of relevant British and European Standards: BS EN 12811-1, BS 5975, and BS EN 1991.
- Construction-related industry experience, either site or office-based
- AutoCAD draughting skills to UK construction design standards
This is a unique and exciting opportunity with real growth potential, it comes with a salary of £70,000 - £75,000.
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