Assistant Design Engineer
Ipswich
28 days' annual leave plus 8 days' bank holiday,
Holiday purchase scheme / Referral scheme / Cycle to work scheme / Family friendly policies
Employee assistance programme / Generous Pension scheme / Life Assurance
Employee rewards & discount platform (including major retailers & cinemas)
Opportunity to work from home
Milestone Infrastructure is currently looking to recruit an Assistant Design Engineer to work on our Suffolk Highways contract in Ipswich. We have multiple design engineer opportunities within this team.
As an Assistant Design Engineer you will be part of our Design team who are responsible for producing design solutions to maintain and improve highway infrastructure in Suffolk.
Milestone Infrastructure has been awarded Suffolk’s new highways services contract, which will begin on 1 October 2023 and run for up to 20 years. The contract will deliver highways projects and improvements across Suffolk in addition to highway maintenance activities.
Your duties & responsibilities:
- Developing highway maintenance schemes through identifying of defects to determining treatments and producing construction documents;
- Assist in producing forward programmes of highway maintenance works;
- Assisting in the management and undertaking of highway condition inspections and surveys;
- Updating and utilising Asset management systems;
- Produce technical reports and other technical output to achieve project outcomes;
- Undertake site visits, surveys and investigations;
- Ensure work is undertaken in compliance with QSE standards and processes;
- Technical training/supervision of Technicians.
- Working collaboratively with customers to understand and develop project objectives.
Skills & Knowledge Requirements
- Experience in highway maintenance techniques and in identifying pavement treatments and solutions;
- Asset management and construction experience within the highway sector (ideally at least 5 years);
- Understanding and use of asset management systems:
- Interpretation and analysis of asset data:
- Experience in undertaking asset condition surveys:
- Commercial awareness in the delivery of projects;
- Knowledge of Highways England standards including DMRB & MCDHW;
- Good knowledge and understanding of Health & Safety & Environment in design and construction;
- Computer literate on Design software and Microsoft packages;
- Competent user of AutoCAD & Civils 3D (desirable);
- Willingness to work in other UK offices for short term assignments;
- UK/EEC driving licence.
Success Measures: You will have:
- An ability to deliver projects to time, cost and quality targets;
- Good interpersonal skills;
- Good communication skills (written and oral);
- Good organisational and prioritisation skills;
- Effective team player.