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Hays TCE Jobs

Salary

Competitive

Location

Manchester

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

My client is a leading global engineering consultancy, they currently have a opportunity for an experienced Senior Engineer to undertake services within a highway engineering environment. The firm has an excellent reputation for its delivery; they have secured a large workload and operate alongside an interesting and varied client base.

For this position my client is seeking a highly experienced degree-qualified chartered engineer or equivalent. You will have extensive knowledge and experience in highways and general civil engineering projects including alignment design, pavement design, earthworks modelling, restraints system design and drainage design. Further, you will have demonstrable experience in the management and responsibility for the delivery of technical outputs of projects.

In return my client offers an attractive remuneration package. To be considered for this opportunity, or for any further information, please call or apply today.
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W5 Recruitment

Salary

From £25,000 to £35,000 per year

Location

Manchester

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Our client is an international consultancy that provides a range of planning, management, engineering and environmental services all over the world. They are currently recruiting for a Geotechnical Engineer to work from one of the companies Southern offices to work on project throughout the south.

The role will require the candidate to liaise with railway design offices to manage the design process, planning and implementation of ground investigations. It is expected that the successful candidate will be experienced in Geotechnical design - earthworks, foundations, retaining walls, ground improvement, interpretative reporting and Geotechnical desk studies and site visits. It would also be beneficial to have experience of using geotechnical computing programmes for slope stability, retaining wall design and FE analysis.

This role will require a minimum five years experience as a geotechnical engineer, preferably within a railway environment, and predominantly within a design office. Candidates will ideally be PTS (Personal Track Safety) certified. The candidate will be qualified with a BSc Civil Engineering, MSc Soil Mechanics, and Geotechnical Engineering or similar and be a Chartered Engineer.

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Hays TCE Jobs

Salary

From £14 to £17 per hour

Location

Rochdale

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Assistant Engineer (Highways)

Hays are a leading recruitment partner for temporary public sector jobs in the UK.

Our client based in Rochdale are looking for an experienced (public sector preferred) assistant engineer to join their projects team on a temporary basis for upto 2years* subject to project implementation.

What is the purpose of the role?

Assist the team with all activities relating to the planning and implementation of Highways project.

What will this role involve?

* Carry out specialist investigations.
* Maintain high technical standards consistent with the project brief.
* Deal with project related correspondence.
* Attend meetings with the client and other organisations as required.
* Ensure compliance with relevant health and safety legislation.
* Manage and mentor graduate engineers
* Supervising and coordinating the work of others
* Good communication skills at all levels
What are we looking for?
* Qualified to HND / Degree level or equivalent in civil engineering or related subject
* Self motivated and pro-active in terms of delivering solutions
* Problem solving skills
* Commercial awareness
* Technical competence
* Good communication skills at all levels
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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Candidate Source Ltd

Salary

From £45,000 to £45,000 per year + Contributory Pension Scheme

Location

Manchester

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

DESIGN ENGINEER - COMMERCIAL VEHICLES - UP TO £45000 - BASED MANCHESTER

Exciting opportunity to join a fast growing commercial vehicle and trailer manufacturing company based in the North West. The company designs and manufactures a range of dry goods trailers, rigid body conversions and van conversions supplying major fleet operators and commercial vehicle manufacturers. With rapid growth in new business combined with a major investment in SolidWorks 3D CAD software, additional design capacity is required. The organisation is looking for experienced Design Engineers to undertake project design from customer specification to completion.

KEY OBJECTIVES - DESIGN ENGINEER

Reporting to the Engineering Manager you will manage new contracts from assessing and validating customer requirements through the design stages to the point of issuing design drawings, bill of materials and detailed drawings where required. You will also support the procurement function with supplier selection and technical inquiries. Once the project reaches the production stage you will support the manufacturing departments to ensure a smooth and effective completion of the build.

For new product design and ongoing product improvement you will be contributing towards the design activities as part of cross functional design teams in order to continually upgrade and improve the range of standard product designs.

Responsibilities include:

- Project assessment and review of customer requirements including technical support for sales
- Project design to ensure customer requirements are converted into effective design solutions
- Creation of bill of material records including standard and non standard parts
- Supporting procurement activities with technical input
- Supporting manufacturing activities throughout the build and completion process
- Provide input to and contribute to standard product and parts design programme

The role will require day-to-day liaison with internal and external contacts including sales, planning, procurement, manufacturing together with customers and suppliers.

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE - DESIGN ENGINEER

This role is ideally suited to an organised, proactive and self-motivated individual with a systematic approach to engineering design and documentation. Suitable candidates will have:

- Mechanical or Production Engineering Background to minimum HNC level
- Broad design and draughting experience, mechanical engineering including 3D CAD
- Knowledge of and interest in lean manufacturing and value engineering
- Experience of and ability to work to tight project deadlines
- Comfortable with full range of PC office software applications
- 3D CAD experience using SolidWorks
- Coach building, chassis or commercial vehicle bodywork design experience

You will also have good communication skills and the ability to liaise on technical issues with both internal and external contacts.


The first stage of the application process is to apply online.

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W5 Recruitment

Salary

Competitive

Location

Manchester

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Senior Geotechnical Engineer - Manchester

Our Clients extremely busy Land & Water team is looking to add to its ongoing growth with a Geotechnical Engineer in Manchester.

The successful candidate will join our Clients busy Manchester team and will be an important member of the wider UK team. The role will be playing a major role in delivering major projects with blue chip clients in the rail, mining and power sectors.

Post graduate qualification (MSc. or higher) in Geotechnical Engineering (preferred) or Engineering Geology
Experience with strong emphasis on geotechnical design of slopes, retaining walls, structural foundations and good analytical skills for interpreting geotechnical data
Use of recognised design software packages (Oasys, slopeW, or similar)
Knowledge of the use of FE software and its effective application
Preferably chartered through ICE / Geolsoc
Appreciation of site investigations, tendering, supervision and lab testing in accordance with BS5930, BS1377 and EC7, complicit with experience level
Mentoring and supporting junior staff
Excellent report writing skills
Willingness to travel if required, including potentially overseas
Good interpersonal and communication skills

The Geotechnics team provides a high quality service to long standing clients along with developing new opportunities. The candidate will take a senior role in this team and would be given an excellent opportunity to progress their career. The role would involve working on a range of interesting projects with leading name clients. Training and support will be proactively provided in order to support this. A competitive salary

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Support Services Group (1)

Salary

From £38,000 to £42,000 per year + c/a, bonus, pension, health cover etc

Location

Manchester

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Our clients are a Design & Build contractor who specialise in providing design and installation of HVAC, mechanical and electrical building services predominantly within the pharmaceutical, healthcare and food industries. As a result of an expanding order book well into 2014 and beyond, they are looking to recruit an experienced Mechanical Building Services Project Manager for a staff position. Candidates should ideally have some have food / healthcare / pharma/ hospital experience and be conversant with working on fast track projects for both end users and main contractors in a design and build environment. Strong commercial awareness and sound technical knowledge will be a distinct advantage. The successful applicant will have responsibility for all site activities, these will incorporate Safety, Health and the Environment, Quality, Procurement and Resources, Programming and Planning. As the ‘front line’ point of contact with the Client you will need to be customer focused, non confrontational and establish good working relationships. You will also have a responsibility for attendance at site meetings and therefore providing feedback from these meetings etc. to all other staff and liaison and coordination with all other contractors and site based project teams. An attractive package that includes a generous basic salary, bonuses, car allowance, pension and healthcare is offered, along with job security working on exciting varied project range.

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Wilson Orange Ltd

Salary

Competitive

Location

Manchester

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

JOB TITLE: Senior Embedded Software Engineer (C++)
LOCATION: Manchester, North West UK
SALARY: £negotiable.

THE ROLE:

The Senior Embedded C++ Software Engineer will handle all software aspects of the design, development, and continuous improvement of state of the art professional digital audio systems for the live performance arena. Working within an Agile environment, this will include understanding requirements, producing mock-up designs, writing specifications, developing test harnesses, implementation of designs and systems integration, testing and more.

THE REQUIREMENTS:

To be considered for this Senior Embedded Software Engineer (C++) role, you will be an experienced embedded C++ software engineer with proven experience in the development of embedded software, ideally but not essentially for the professional audio / music industry. It is essential that you can demonstrate strong experience in object orientated design, design patterns and the implementation of large scale software projects.

You will have solid knowledge of real time programming and multithreading with good knowledge of operative system concepts, components and architectures (preferably Linux).

In addition to embedded C++ developer skills, any experience of the following would also be an advantage: Linux or Embedded Linux; Low-level Ethernet programming - TCP/IP, UDP, Multicast, IGMP, VoIP, Ethernet switch control, low-level hardware programming - control and interface to FPGAs, CPLDs etc, Linux Kernel drivers, PCM digital audio using SHARC-based DSP, GUI and graphical design, OpenGL, DirectFB or DirectX7, USB or graphics drivers, Agile methodologies.

Knowledge of professional Audio Software/Hardware would also help but is not essential. A passion for music and audio would also be a bonus. DSP Engineer and GUI Development roles are also available.

THE COMPANY:

Massive growth, lots of investment and tons of interesting and challenging work make this an opportunity not to be missed for Embedded Engineers looking for a good career path in a global organisation.