Contract Engineering Lead - Building Design

📍 Location: Bristol - Hybrid work available (3 days in the office per week)
📅 Contract: Until the end of 2026 initially, with potential extension
💰 Rate: Up to £425/day PAYE or £575/day Umbrella (DOE) - Inside IR35

Are you an experienced Engineering Lead with a background in building design and multidisciplinary infrastructure projects?

We are looking for a Contract Engineering Lead - Building Design to take a key technical leadership role on a major, complex engineering programme.

You will be responsible for overseeing and coordinating the design delivery of a specialist building, working across multiple engineering disciplines and managing the interfaces between contract partners, project teams and key stakeholders.

• Providing technical management and leadership across engineering contracts
• Coordinating multidisciplinary engineering design activities across parallel workstreams
• Ensuring design deliverables meet technical specifications, programme requirements and agreed milestones
• Managing and supporting the surveillance of detailed design activities
• Leading the resolution of complex, cross-programme engineering issues and risks
• Ensuring robust configuration control processes are in place
• Coordinating engineering design reviews, gateway requirements and constructability reviews
• Managing stakeholder comments throughout the design review process
• Supporting design optimisation and the management of modifications and change
• Supporting discussions around project change, programme impacts and engineering risks
• Tracking, mitigating and driving the closure of technical open points

• A Degree-qualified Engineer, or equivalent, in a discipline such as Civil, Structural, Architectural, Process or Mechanical Engineering
• Strong experience in design management and coordination on large-scale, multidisciplinary infrastructure projects
• Solid technical knowledge of building design and construction
• Knowledge of relevant UK legislation, particularly CDM 2015
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to lead, coordinate and delegate effectively
• A proactive and independent approach to engineering delivery

• Experience within the nuclear industry or other highly regulated environments
• Knowledge of nuclear safety-related design constraints
• Experience involving boilers, steam generation facilities or thermal processes
• Professional Chartership

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced engineering professional to take a leading role in the delivery of a technically complex building design package.

📩 Interested? Apply now or get in touch to find out more.

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