Assistant Engineer - Water Sector

My Client is recruiting an Assistant Engineer in the Water Sector

We are recruiting an Assistant Engineer for the Reservoir project to support the Lead Engineer in managing the design assurance process for this significant infrastructure development.

The role involves organizing meetings, preparing minutes, tracking design submissions and technical queries, and ensuring timely responses in line with contractual requirements.

The Assistant Engineer will collate and streamline stakeholder feedback, engage with internal teams to secure input and agreement on designs, and assist in the development of improved systems and processes to enhance engineering assurance.

This position is key to ensuring efficient project delivery and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Take minutes and engage in the regular meetings with the Design Guardians to discuss the lookahead, open actions and ongoing issues
• Track the response to Technical Queries and Design Submissions by the main works contractors and manage the liaison, input and expectations of all stakeholders
• Coordinate general requests from and to contractors on engineering matters
• Take minutes for the weekly meetings with Operations to discuss, answer and resolve outstanding queries and issues
• Take minutes and engage in technical workshops between Operations, mains works contractors and the Design Guardian to ensure alignment and buy-in of proposed solutions
• Attend regular meetings with the Engineering Team

Skills, Qualifications & Competencies

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Good Water Sector experience
• Effective stakeholder engagement skills
• Good understand and appreciation of the "design process" and its commercial implications
• Strong team player with good communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
• The ability to manage and coordinate inputs from multiple parties Ability to work to deadlines with a focus on results and quality
• High competency in Excel/Powerpoint/Word/Teams
• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering related field of study ideally Mechanical
• Earthworks and or pipeline project experience
• Experience of design and construction development in a BIM, common data environment