Project Engineer

Overview

Lead design management for multi‑million‑pound airport projects, ensuring sustainable, compliant solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• principal designer
• design management
• sustainable design
• technical input
• stakeholder coordination
• project scope

Tasks

Reporting into the Design Manager, you will play a key role in the Construction team, responsible for ensuring design meets needs across varied £multi-million projects, including working in defined sub-programmes on complex projects. Your ideas will be valued, and your contributions will have a lasting impact on our organisation and our passengers. Your role is pivotal in leading the design of large, strategically important projects for Gatwick Airport with typical budgets over £100m, ensuring that design meets project requirements, whilst achieving real value for money. This role is involved in every stage of the project process, including ensuring all projects are installed in line with approved designs. -Undertaking the role of Principal Designer Contact to discharge the duties of Principal Designer (CDM Regulations 2015) with the support of the CDM Advisor. -Developing project scope to meet the business needs, along with delivering effective design management on individual projects. -Seeking cost effective design solutions and managing external design consultants -Developing the design brief for external design consultants, ensuring that the design contract is implemented and effectively managed through the design process. -Working with multiple stakeholders to support the successful delivery of projects -Seeking sustainable design solutions to meet project requirements, ensuring implementation of measures (such as energy-efficient design, materials selection, waste reduction, and transportation optimisation) aimed at preventing, reducing and remediating carbon emissions that arise from the construction. -Providing technical input to any design changes through the lifecycle of the project.

Requirements

• breeam
• british standards
• nec contracts
• coordination
• civils/structural
• engineering degree

What You Bring

-Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of technical and regulatory requirements related to their field of expertise. Knowledge of and experience in scoping and briefing is desirable. -Knowledge of and experience implementing British Standards and sustainable design schemes such as BREEAM (or other equivalents) is desirable. -Experience of coordinating design teams and multi-discipline engineering resources is desirable. -Knowledge and understanding of NEC suite of contracts is desirable -Experience in Civils/Structural Engineering desirable. -University degree in an engineering discipline – or significant experience in lieu of education/qualifications.

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Benefits

-Welcome Bonus -Discounted travel -Professional training to develop -Volunteer days -High street shops and restaurant discounts -Performance-based bonus scheme -Life and disability insurance -Healthcare scheme

About London Gatwick

-Opened to the public in 1958, it evolved from a flying club into the UK’s second‑largest airport. -Operates 24/7 across two terminals. -Owned by Vinci Airports and a Global Infrastructure Partners‑led consortium. -Plans to utilize its standby northern runway for expansion. -Typical projects include terminal renovations, remote jet‑bridge control trials, and airfield efficiency enhancements. -Notable for being one of the world’s busiest single‑runway airports, with a historic Art Deco ‘Beehive’ serving as a converted office landmark.

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