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Elvet Recruitment are currently recruiting on behalf of a known main contractor, for a Quantity Surveyor in Wakefield to work across a water framework. This companyworks with clients ranging from Private developers, local authorities, water companies and blue chip organisations to deliver projects whilst maintaining excellent relationships with their clients.
Duties Include:
- Performing and coordinating internal and external activities associated with civil and drainage design, in line with client specifications and design standards.
- Design duties will include preparation of design solutions at various stages of a project; preparation of drawings, reports, specifications, calcs and estimates; attendance at Client meetings and checking the work of peers to ensure accuracy.
- Collaborating with a wide range of discipline inputs; monitoring and protecting our client relationships; assisting with planning and programming; commercial management and presenting projects for audit.
- Attend Engineering Expos and implement the very latest technologies in the Industry, staying up to date with developments.
- Maintaining on-going communication with relevant Team Leaders / Senior Managers and clients when required to ensure effective communications on matters relevant to the project.
- Contributing to the resolution of technical issues on projects and providing technical guidance to other team members, such as junior engineers, technicians, and apprentices.
- Working in collaboration with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall design.
- Being familiar with, and compliant with, relevant Health & Safety regulations and to promote a culture of awareness within the team.
- Maintain quality and environmental control procedures in accordance with ISO 9001and ISO 14001.
- Create and maintain good relations with clients, design teams and neighbours as well as any other stakeholders.
Personal attributes:
- Be a qualified Engineer and ideally chartered or a member of a relevant institution i.e. ICE
- Have suitable civil design experience, inc. drainage, gained through working on infrastructure projects within the UK water sector.
- Have knowledge of the UK Water Industry and Sewer Sector Guidance standards for drainage design.
- Have expertise in software design methods such as MicroDrainage, AutoCAD and Civils3D, knowledge of integration with BIM models would be desirable.
- Be technically competent in fundamental hydraulic design principles and ability to apply manual calculation methods where software methods are not available.
- Have excellent soft skills.
- Have a full UK driving license.
