Tunnels & Approaches Project Engineer

Project Engineer (Tunnels & Approaches)  

Essex, Kent, London

Permanent

Office/Home Hybrid Working  

Do you want to work on a significant project for the local community? Can you collaborate with a multi-skilled Tunnels team? Are you a Project Engineer? Then, enhance your career by turning challenges into sustainable solutions. 

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow   

To support our Tunnels team, we are looking for a Project Engineer to join us. Working on a significant infrastructure project, you’ll collaborate with the Tunnel’s team, the delivery partner and with the project team in the delivery of the project scope, detailed design assurance, and early and main works activities.

Your key responsibilities will be:  

• Assisting the Tunnel & Approaches Senior Project Engineers to achieve the project scope delivery, detailed design assurance, and preparation of early works activities.

• Ensure that all activities are planned and progress is monitored and reported upon.

• Mentor early career staff, apprentices, graduates and support staff.
  
  

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future. 

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve. 

On top of that, you’ll have:  

• Knowledge and experience in major tunnelling and associated tunnel infrastructure construction delivery, including operations and maintenance.

• Have extensive knowledge and experience in the construction delivery of major infrastructure programmes, projects, and works.
• Structures capability from detailed design and/or assurance from major tunnelling projects/programmes.
• Knowledge of common forms of contracts such as NEC4, Joint Code of Practice (JCOP), BTS Specification 3rd Edition, PRAMS, DMRB
• Interpersonal and communication skills – can motivate and liaise with team members and discipline leads to ensure that information is as agreed with client and other stakeholders.
• Capable of maintaining high performance in challenging environments and working with diverse management styles.

• Skilled in analytical thinking and problem-solving using advanced tools and techniques.
• Microsoft Office skills including Word, PowerPoint and Excel, Power BI.

• Health, safety and welfare (HSW) – to ensure H&S in own area of work and for the team
  
  

A place to work and so much more 
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.   

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home. 

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play. 

What we also offer: 
To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.  

Some of our benefits include:  

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays 
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities 
• Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents 
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions 
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions 
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange

Got more questions? 

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Laura Dobson at LADN@COWI.COM.  
 
Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI. 

Equal opportunity employer. 
COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.