Site Engineer

Atkins Ireland is a member of SNC-Lavalin, one of the world’s leading providers of engineering professional consulting and support services with offices across Ireland.

We are seeking a Site Engineer to be based in Dublin.

Essential Eligibility Criteria:

• Degree or 3rd level professional qualification (HETAC Level 8 or equivalent) in engineering - preferably civil, structural or equivalent.
• Minimum of 2 years progressive experience in Site Engineering, working for the Contractor or representing the Client, preferably in a light rail environment.
• Experience coordinating between the Design team and the Construction team.
• A strong commitment to public safety, to staff safety, and to the safety of those working on our behalf, thorough understanding of site safety, including the roles of the Client, Contractor, the PDSP and the PSCS.
• Knowledge and experience of the GCCC forms of Contract.
• Understanding of, and experience in preparing and updating project programmes/schedules.
• Updating and maintaining risk registers.
• Full clean driving license.

Desirable Attributes for this role:

• Experience working in a Live/Operational environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• The ability to gather and analyse information, prepare, and present reports.
• The desire and ability to rapidly learn and apply new engineering skills.
• Strong organisation and mathematical skills.
• Strong MS Office (Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Project and PowerBI) skills plus MS Teams.
• Ability to prepare/review cost estimates.
• Ability to work on his/her own initiative and within teams, often multi-disciplinary.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with a wide range of people.
• Fluency in the English language, both written and oral.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that all contractors and employees meet the Health, Safety and Environmental obligations of the relevant statutory Codes and Law.
• Supervision of the contractors’ performance to ensure Works are undertaken in compliance with the contract specifications and  all other contractual requirements.
• Coordination of project designs.
• Preparation and coordination of contract documents for the procurement of contractors.
• Interface management with 3rd parties.
• Ensuring that all contractors comply with traffic management requirements.
• Reviewing contractors’ method statements and temporary works designs.
• On-site supervision and recording of the performance of the contractor against Programme, including productivity assessment of the contractor.
• Supervision and recording of the quality of the contractors’ works, including issuing non- conformance notices.
• Maintaining a site diary recording contractors’ daily progress and keeping records of all plant, resources, deliveries, safety incidents/accidents, environmental incidents/accidents, PR issues and any other significant site activities.
• Ensuring that contractor compiles the required as-built data (including data recording) and review of this data and support the production and update of As Built Drawings on completion of Works.
• Ensuring that Contractor compiles and submits the required Safety File documents and review of these documents.
• Undertaking such tasks, activities or other duties as may be required or assigned.

About Us:

At Atkins we put Sustainability at the heart of our business strategy. We possess a significant breadth of knowledge and depth of skills and experience for the ultimate benefit of our clients. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Together with our clients, we’re always striving to find better ways to get things done. We are a certified CPD Accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2021.