Overview
The CWA is recruiting a Senior Methods Engineer to join the Main Civils delivery team on one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure programmes. This is a key technical leadership role, embedded within the Nuclear Island civils works, where the successful candidate will shape how complex permanent civil structures are safely and efficiently constructed.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of initial construction method statements to inform detailed design and future construction activities
- Support constructability reviews, value engineering and option studies across permanent civils works
- Champion “Safe by Design” and engineered safety principles throughout engineering solutions
- Provide construction engineering input to designers and stakeholders during the pre‑construction phase
- Manage and coordinate a team of methods and digital engineers
- Interface with commercial, procurement, HSE, project controls and construction teams to ensure integrated delivery
- Review and challenge design proposals to de‑risk solutions, optimise programmes and reduce cost and quantities
- Capture lessons learned and best practice from comparable nuclear and major infrastructure projects
Qualifications
- Degree‑qualified in Civil Engineering with membership (or working towards) a relevant professional body
- Significant experience delivering civil engineering works for a main contractor environment
- Strong technical knowledge of heavy reinforced concrete, reinforcement prefabrication, temporary works and lifting solutions
- Proven ability to lead technical teams and coordinate multi‑disciplinary stakeholders
- Confidence producing construction methodologies, sketches, and 3D model‑based visualisations xlqdzyr
- Experience using tools such as Revit, Navisworks and digital collaboration platforms
- A collaborative mindset, comfortable working within an alliance environment
- Experience in the power or nuclear sector is desirable, but not essential
Benefits
The CWA is a single delivery organisation made of up of the client (Sizewell C) and three parent companies – Balfour Beatty, Bouygues and Laing O'Rourke – which offer industry leading packages including market leading salaries, generous annual leave entitlements, pension scheme and other flexible benefits.
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The CWA is recruiting a Senior Methods Engineer to join the Main Civils delivery team on one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure programmes. This is a key technical leadership role, embedded within the Nuclear Island civils works, where the successful candidate will shape how complex permanent civil structures are safely and efficiently constructed.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of initial construction method statements to inform detailed design and future construction activities
- Support constructability reviews, value engineering and option studies across permanent civils works
- Champion “Safe by Design” and engineered safety principles throughout engineering solutions
- Provide construction engineering input to designers and stakeholders during the pre‑construction phase
- Manage and coordinate a team of methods and digital engineers
- Interface with commercial, procurement, HSE, project controls and construction teams to ensure integrated delivery
- Review and challenge design proposals to de‑risk solutions, optimise programmes and reduce cost and quantities
- Capture lessons learned and best practice from comparable nuclear and major infrastructure projects
Qualifications
- Degree‑qualified in Civil Engineering with membership (or working towards) a relevant professional body
- Significant experience delivering civil engineering works for a main contractor environment
- Strong technical knowledge of heavy reinforced concrete, reinforcement prefabrication, temporary works and lifting solutions
- Proven ability to lead technical teams and coordinate multi‑disciplinary stakeholders
- Confidence producing construction methodologies, sketches, and 3D model‑based visualisations xlqdzyr
- Experience using tools such as Revit, Navisworks and digital collaboration platforms
- A collaborative mindset, comfortable working within an alliance environment
- Experience in the power or nuclear sector is desirable, but not essential
Benefits
The CWA is a single delivery organisation made of up of the client (Sizewell C) and three parent companies – Balfour Beatty, Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke – which offer industry leading packages including market leading salaries, generous annual leave entitlements, pension scheme and other flexible benefits.
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