Contracts Engineer - Birmingham, United Kingdom - VGC Group
Description
**Contracts EngineerOur client is a multinational organization who is working on a major project in the UK.
They are looking for a Contracts Engineer to join their team as soon as possible.****In this role you will be responsible to ensure that contracts are carried out in line with company procedures and ensure that sites are managed safely and efficiently.
Keeping in contact with the client to ensure quality work and within budgetContracts Engineer
Key respansiblities of the role:
- Onsite management of projects covering technical administration and commercial aspects of the project
- Liaising with plant yard over costs and damages.
- Liaise with labour Coordinator to ensure that the sites have a sufficient labour force capable of carrying out tasks
- Prepare budgets to ensure that the job will return sufficient money and to ensure that there has been no shortfalls within the estimate
- Visit the site before the job starts to ensure the piling platform is sufficient and welfare facilities are in place, run through FPS attendances.
- Prepare contract and site files for each contract.
- Ensure concrete service is secured and trials carried out where required.
- Organise sub contractors if required (setting out, excavators, muckaway, steel fixing etc.).
- Liaise with clients keeping them up to date on site works and any changes in costs/extension of time/extra work.
- Organise load and integrity testing of piles.
- Monitor test cube results to ensure that concrete is within specification.
- Assist Quantity Surveyors on final accounts and weekly values, liaise with them to ensure all changes, variations etc. are dealt with
- Check ground conditions are as assumed in the pile design calculations, if different refer to design department
- Produce Pile schedules from information taken from engineer drawings.
- Taking handover information from the Estimator producing budget, communication plant and labour requirements to plant yard and labour resource manager.
- Update weekly cost sheet and report under performance immediately
Additional experience:
- Good understanding of CFA, LDA, Secant and support fluid piling techniques
- Commercial knowledge awareness
- Basic understanding of geotechnics and pile design.
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