We are looking for a bright, highly motivated and ambitious individual to join our fast-paced and growing Engineering team as a Trainee or as an Apprentice Engineer. Your role will be to train to assist Engineers and fulfil the duties of an Engineer; Providing technical instruction to enable the Company to carry out its core function of providing groundworks services.  Work with internal staff to plan, manage and supervise the construction of projects.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Drawing document control – ensure all drawings are correct, up to date and the correct persons have them.

• Coordinate drawings and setting-out on site.

• Ensure that sites are monitored for setting out requirements by liaison with the contracts manager, project manager or the site foreman and that sufficient resource is allocated to each site to ensure site progress.

• Ensure that all setting out is checked, once completed ensure that no errors were either provided by the client or introduced during the process (looking down lines / measurements to pins / co-ordinate checking and run through).

• Ensuring familiarisation with the construction details to advise site staff.

• Due consideration of ALL the information at your disposal before setting out commences (i.e. site layouts, not just foundation plans that will show varying hands or block arrangements etc).

• Keeping and maintaining adequate records for future reference and back up.

• Ensuring sufficient resource allocated to each site under management.

• Reaction to urgent requirements and prioritising workload.

• Co-ordination and communication of resources with other company engineers to ensure best time use made in busy or slack times on either your own or other engineer’s sites.

• Ensuring (by chasing) that required information is actually available prior to start date.

• Liaison with the client engineer to ensure good communication and relationship building.

• Full compliance and review and understanding of the pre-site start minutes or periodic notes as distributed.

• All of the above to be done with reference to and support of the Engineering Manager.

• Inform the MVK project manager or surveyor of incurred costs, either extra time taken to carry out tasks due to problematical information or information provision or extra work requirements on site.

• Avoid incurring costs due to incorrect positioning / setting out.

Requirements:

• Good standard of GCSE’s and A Levels.

• Relevant work experience highly preferable.

• Full clean driving license and access to a car (claim travel expenses).

• Excellent computer skills, including Word and Excel.

• Effective written and oral communication skills.

• Analytical and practically minded.

• Highly organized.

• General knowledge of various contracts and contractual terms.

• An interest in a long-term career within Construction.

• Enthusiastic and passionate.

• Flexible and resilient.