Senior Engineer

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

11/4/2024

Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 + up to 10% bonus per annum. In addition, up to £7,500 Regional Allowance depending on location.

Working Location: Home-based, North and North East of England and surrounding. Newcastle Upon Tyne, Sunderland, Hull, Middlesbrough, York, Darlington, Durham, Harrogate.

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Are you a seasoned Engineer looking for a new challenge? Do you thrive in a dynamic and innovative work environment? If so, we invite you to join our team at the NHBC as a Senior Engineer. We are offering a range of exciting and diverse projects that will allow you to leverage your expertise and make a significant impact.

What We Offer

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and a holiday purchase scheme
• Up to £7,500 Regional allowance, qualification depends on location (Inner London £7,500, Outer London £6,000, South-east £3,750)
• Generous pension scheme, with an employer contribution of up to 10.5%
• Life Assurance (x4 salary)
• Subsidised private medical insurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee discounts platform, including gym discounts
• 24/7 employee assistance programme supporting your mental wellbeing
• 2 days volunteer leave
• Equalised maternity, paternity, adoption leave and pay for all new parents
• Payroll Giving, this allows you to make donations to your chosen charity through monthly pay deductions
  
  

What You’ll Be Doing

Technical Operations Engineers provide professional engineering risk management advice. This advice relates to all civil, structural, and geotechnical engineering issues associated with the properties on which NHBC provides warranty cover.

Technical Operations Engineers also provide consultancy services to NHBC Claims, which include investigation and repair solutions associated with claims against Buildmark.

You’ll be an important part of a multi-disciplinary team of professional engineers and surveyors with responsibility for assessing Building Control and warranty applications on a wide variety of residential and mixed-use schemes. You’ll also work with developers, architects, and builders to provide site support, undertake forensic investigations, liaise with customers, and much more.

This is a home-based working role, and you can look forward to real flexibility and an excellent work/life balance. You will be expected (at NHBC’s expense) to travel to client sites and, from time to time, to our offices, including our head office in Milton Keynes.

Specific Responsibilities Will Include

• Checking submitted site investigation reports, drawings, specifications, structural calculations, and design details for compliance with Building Regulations and warranty standards.
• Providing technical advice and support on the assessment of designs for compliance with Building Regulations and warranty standards, including resolving problems with engineering aspects of any submissions.
• Negotiating with developers, builders, and their professional advisors to ensure proposals are satisfactory in relation to Building Control, warranty, and land quality and comply with relevant regulations/NHBC Standards.
• Supporting inspection staff with the provision of expert advice, inspection of high-risk/complex elements of building work, and review of progress.
• On live claims, undertaking/arranging forensic investigations, reporting on findings, preparing solutions for remedial work schemes, issuing and reviewing tenders, assessing costs, and undertaking site inspections.
• Where applicable, representing NHBC on appropriate external bodies and at seminars or industry work groups.
  
  

NHBC have a dedicated professional employee support team for the "Building Safety Regulator Framework". All training, guidance, development and financial funding is provided.

The ideal candidate will

We’re looking for a great, professional team player who:

• Has, or is working towards, Chartered membership of an appropriate professional institution, e.g., ICE/IStructE.
• Substantial relevant experience working in building/construction and a great understanding of the new housing and commercial sectors.
• Broad range of knowledge and understanding of all aspects of superstructure, foundation, and geotechnical design with regard to building structures with a proven track record.
• Excellent communication skills are key, both verbally and in writing, with the ability to present information to a variety of stakeholders, including homeowners with claims.
• Able to manage their own workload, and meet service level agreement targets and work with minimum supervision.
• Is excited by a varied and challenging role and demonstrates a drive for excellence and a strong team player.
• Requires a full driving license.
  
  

Education And Qualifications

• Ideally a Chartered membership of an appropriate professional institution or working towards i.e. ICE/ IStrucE.
• Relevant Civil/ Structural Engineering or Construction Degree.
  
  

Why you should join us

At NHBC we are proud to be unique. No other organisation in our sector combines the variety of services and scale that we offer. As the market leader, our name is synonymous with new home warranty and insurance. Our people are driven by our core purpose to raise standards in housebuilding and protect homeowners.

We are a modern, lifestyle and family friendly employer who are in a period of rapid growth, investing in technology, data and new ways of working. We need passionate, talented and driven people to join us on this journey.

We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly. We don’t promise we can offer you exactly what you want, but we are always happy to talk flexible working.

Your future with us

We have lots of fantastic examples across our business of people who are building their career with us. We are huge advocates of internal mobility and work hard to retain our best talent. We offer exceptional personal development and career progression opportunities. If you’re ambitious, driven and hard-working you will succeed with us. We’ll support you with full training, ongoing development, and the opportunity to gain recognised qualifications and professional memberships.

Our inclusive culture

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that encourages everyone to bring their true selves to work. We fundamentally believe in the rights of all our employees and customers to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect, free from discrimination. We have active employee networks that support our colleagues and their allies, creating safe spaces for open conversations and the sharing of ideas.

If you need any adjustments or additional support with your application, please let us know at Recruitment@nhbc.co.uk