Job Title: Senior Engineer
Reporting to: Technical Director
Hours: 40 hours per week
Location: Surbiton / London
Company Overview:
Working on major projects both in the UK and overseas, Dr Sauer & Partners is a leading underground and geotechnical specialist with a passion for perfection, a dedication to quality and a commitment to innovation. Our company ethos and objective are to continuously discover better ways of solving a project's most technical issues and we look for individuals who can work efficiently across our teams to deliver technical excellence to our clients.
Purpose of the role:
The Senior Engineer is an integral part of the design team and is responsible for the technical and commercial delivery of projects.
Responsibilities and duties:
The principal duties are:
- Working to an agreed cost proposal by planning resources and project programme.
- Assessing resourcing requirements at each stage of the project.
- Attending project progress meetings and reporting progress versus budget to the Technical Director and client.
- Developing detailed methodologies and delegating the preparation of design tasks.
- Ensuring accuracy of drawings and calculations and that the relevant codes and standards are complied with.
- Delivering the project within times scale, budget constraints and quality expectations.
- Responding to design queries during the design or construction phase and attending site meetings.
- Participating in HR processes such as staff appraisals, training and development.
- Leading and participating in Dr Sauer & Partners Quality and Environmental Management System accredited to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 and adhering to the relevant Design Management Plan.
Qualifications and Experience required:
Minimum of a Master Degree in Civil or Structural / Geotechnical Engineering or similar.
Experience gained from multiple design projects.
Thorough working knowledge and excellent understanding of civil & geotechnical engineering.
Experience gained on projects of FE Analyses, calculation reports and production of design packages.
Excellent English language, representation, organisation and communication skills.
A strong interest and passion in ground engineering and tunnelling is advantageous.
Training and Development:
Dr. Sauer & Partners values the professional career development of our staff members, and we aim to provide them with the technical and managerial expertise they will require throughout their career. Our training and development package includes ongoing on the job mentoring, support throughout professional chartership, attendance of technical conferences as well as bespoke training courses and overseas work opportunities.
Benefits:
We offer the below employment benefits:
Workplace pension scheme matched up to 6%.
Competitive annual leave entitlement and the option to purchase additional annual leave.
Excellent training and development including an annualised budget to spend towards training and financial support towards your professional chartership.
Life insurance.
Subsidised gym membership.
Private medical insurance.
Enhanced parental leave.
Annual company performance bonus scheme – subject to company performance.
Please submit your application and resume to our office in Surbiton, UK.
Email: london@dr-sauer.com
Equal Opportunities
The teams across our offices are dynamic and hardworking. They inspire great ideas, strive for innovation and seek solutions to the most complex and challenging projects, and help make Dr. Sauer & Partners a rewarding place to work. We ensure that we recruit, retain, and promote a diverse mix of colleagues who are representative of the diversity of our local communities. This enables us to access a wide range of ideas, knowledge and experience and allows us to deliver technical excellence across our projects.