Fawkes & Reece are currently looking for a Senior Planning Engineer to join one of the leading UK civil engineering contractors in Ipswich.

My Client is a straight talking no nonsense civil engineering contractor. They operate across the UK and undertake civil engineering projects across a variety of different sectors including highways, bridges, infrastructure, flood defence, energy and rail.

They are currently searching for a Senior Planning Engineer based out of Ipswich. As the planning engineer you will be using your site experience to provide support to the pre-contract tender team, finding solutions to engineering problems, planning bid winning methods of construction, creating scheme programmes and assist with bid writing.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and assistance on planning, programming, methods of construction and solutions to engineering problems
• Ensure that any programmes and supporting documents produced, comply with all scheme specific constraints
• Ensure that while planning each tender, all possible alternative methods and strategies have been considered and discussed with the tender team
• Assist with providing supporting documents for each tender submission as required
• Jointly reviewing sub-contracted design work with respect to build-ability and tender compliance, seeking advice from the Technical Manager when necessary
• Keep up to date with industry developments, innovations and legislation

Skills

• Experience working on Civil Engineering sites
• HNC Civil Engineering Qualification
• Comfortable working in a team
• Good communication skills
• Conversant with programming software - Asta or Microsoft Project
• Eligible to live and work in the UK

Benefits

• Life assurance cover (4x annual salary)
• Company pension scheme (we match up to 6%)
• 25 days holiday (pro rata) plus bank holidays (with an option of buying more holiday)
• Extensive training programmes
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee benefits platform

Apply today or call our London office and speak to Jude at (url removed) or (phone number removed)