Sr. Design Engineer

About the role

Design, develop and coordinate all design matters relating to a project, helping to ensure that the multi-disciplinary teams building the project work together smoothly and that everything is delivered on time and within budget.

What you’ll do

• Apply sound technical expertise and engineering principles, techniques and methods to project design.
• Work with the line manager to continuously improve the design review process and maintain quality.
• Provide technical guidance to the technical office team to improve alignment.
• Review and extract engineering information from CAD drawings and Revit.
• Prepare design calculations and sketches, and review final design drawings and documents.
• Establish project design requirements and monitor draft and final deliverables against them.
• Carry out technical reviews of civil and structural works, including independent design checks.
• Ensure designs meet time, cost, schedule and contractual requirements.
• Coordinate project team work with other engineering disciplines and relevant professionals.
• Prepare and issue specifications, data sheets and other construction documents.
• Review designs prepared by others as part of the quality management process.
• Study project contract documents, including schedules, design drawings and BOQs.
• Review design changes, proposals and variation orders.
• Participate in progress review and coordination meetings.
• Brief technical engineers and provide technical and management guidance during detailed design and construction.
• Monitor submissions across all design phases against agreed schedules.
• Coordinate with other trades to resolve conflicts between engineering disciplines.
• Help define and implement corrective actions when deficiencies are identified.

Who we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• Real estate, construction or engineering consultancy experience is a must.
• At least 6 years of experience in the relevant function.
• 2 years of experience in a related position.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills.
• Excellent Syllabus skills.
• Excellent MATLAB skills.
• Excellent HAP skills.
• Experience in residential and commercial projects.
• Intermediate communication, customer focus and innovation; advanced results orientation and attention to detail.