Enhance your career with one of the UK’s most successful and responsible civil engineering contractors.
We are looking for people to join our team who not only have relevant qualifications and skills, but who understand and value our culture of pride and connection.
We have a fantastic opportunity within our Infrastructure business for an ambitious and talented Senior Engineering Manager - Civils
About you –
We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive team leader who can manage in a diverse team. This role can lead to many of the career paths for the employee as they develop through Morgan Sindall.
About the role –
- Support design manager and project teams with technical details of civil engineering input required for cable installation.
- Liaise with the installation teams, civils teams, designers and multi-disciplinary team to achieve required project outcomes and have understanding of how Underground Cable (UGC) and Overhead Line (OHL) installation process works from tender through to commissioning.
- Support the civil engineering requirements relating to cable installation requirements on a number of projects.
- Support the commercial and procurement functions (Cost Value Reporting, review payment application, variation registers, etc) relating to the civil engineering aspects of projects
- Support the Energy Sector with tenders & business development, attend client meetings and undertake preliminary site visits as required
- Check/review and comment on civils designs relating to both UGC and OHL projects.
- Check/review and comment on Joint bays for buildability.
- Preparation of civil engineering proposals and stage by stage/sequencing construction and civil engineering installations, technical reports, specifications and other written documents.
- Adherence to Morgan Sindall management procedures, IMS, Client technical specs and legislation.
- Establish best practice and produce procedures in order to ensure compliance.
- Support the preparation of method statements and risk assessments and review as required
- Provide experience to support value engineering and innovative development.
- Accept ownership of work to be done (i.e. being required to undertake specific actions within an agreed job boundary, the execution of a delegated task, activity or process).
- Support graduates and staff to develop experience in civil engineering/UGC/OHL works.
About the Technical Skills and Experience –
- Technical engineering leadership and support of all Energy Sites.
- Technical Skills and experience
- Member of professional Engineering Institution such as ICE. Working towards either Incorporated or Chartered Engineer status.
- Experience in the technical review of all designs, reports & drawings associated with the civil engineering aspects of new build or refurbishment of Underground Cable projects and Overhead Line relating to systems from 11kV – 400kV for constructability purposes. Support designs from FEED through to assurance and final sign off.
- Understanding of constraints such as Archaeology, environmental considerations and landowner interfaces. Able to support designers and civil engineers select suitable construction swathe for cable systems.
- Knowledge and experience with cable pulling and pulling tensions needed to install HV cables.
- Understanding and experience of transporting cable on public roads, off-loading cable and transport of cable on site and related temporary works for site activities.
- Knowledge and experience of joint bay construction, including use of temporary works used in joint bay builds.
- Knowledge and experience of DTS installation and fibre blowing for DTS (Distributed Temperature Sensing)
- Understanding of National Grid technical standards (TS) and supplier requirements (SR) and needs of cable installation minimum requirements, such as type registration of cables, marker boards, or minimum standards of CBS for example.
- Experience with cable sealing end compounds (CSEC) and gantries and able to work in controlled areas as a Person or Competent Person.
- Knowledge of induced voltage risks, electromagnetic fields and working room required around OHLs.
- Experience with access track requirements, (including materials and usage) to construct UGC/OHL works and joint bays.
- Significant temporary works experience including as temporary works coordinator
- Experience in either CAD packages such as, AutoCAD, trimble sketchup.
- Have a good understanding of British and European standards and technical specifications from utility providers such as National Grid, SSE, Scottish Power, UKPN, WPD, etc
- Reasonable level of maths and science and have good communication skills.
- Good computer and report writing skills
- Ability to use Microsoft Word, Excel, Adobe and other IT systems.
- Support the writing and production of inspection and test plans, and provide support to the quality engineers, ensuring quality process are adhered to, to meet ITP and client requirements.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work well within a team.
- Good attitude to obtaining new skills and capable at transferring existing skills to overcome new challenges.
- Have experience in using Common data environments (CDEs) such as Viewpoint for projects or other similar ISO19650
About the Qualifications -
- BEng/Bsc in Civil engineering relevant engineering qualification with experience in UGC construction and management experience
- Preferably Chartered Civil/Structural Engineer/Electrical status or working towards it
- Ideally be TP137 Approved for site management
- Have undertaken “Persons” and “Competent Persons” training
- Have SMSTS
- Have CSCS/CPCS card. (A.P. for craneage desirable)
Why Morgan Sindall Infrastructure?
We believe in connecting people, places and communities through innovative and responsible infrastructure
Morgan Sindall Infrastructure delivers some of the UK’s most complex and critical infrastructure across six core sectors of energy, water, nuclear, highways, rail and aviation for public and private customers. Our business is supported by a wealth of functional roles within human resources, commercial, IT, innovation, design, work winning / business development, safety, health, environment and quality (SHEQ), communications, procurement, and finance.
Our people define our culture and are at the heart of everything we do. We put personal and professional development at the forefront of our efforts to attract and retain the best people in the industry. We are a community of diverse individuals and our people play an invaluable role in shaping the UK’s infrastructure and contributing to our long-term sustainable growth.
We are looking for people to join our team who not only have relevant qualifications and skills, but who understand and value our culture of pride and connection.
Morgan Sindall is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People ‘Two Ticks’ accreditation. We are also an Investors in People company.