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Special Projects Engineer

Salary Competitive
Location Swadlincote
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

IG Masonry Support Systems has combined experience with innovation to provide the most practical and advanced range of masonry support products on the market.

Based in Swadlincote, the Special Projects Engineer is responsible for designing, specifying and pricing structurally adequate IG Masonry Support products in response to client enquiries.

You will also be required to meet client expectations by ensuring prompt replies to queries, utilising all information provided, implementing information gathered from design/site meetings and meeting site delivery dates.  You will need to communicate effectively during a handover meeting with your appointed project team to ensure correct drawings are produced on time and in accordance with the design.

 

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Schedules

  • Prepare accurate, competitive, and detailed technical schedules for IG Masonry Support products with the assistance of a dedicated internal structural engineering team.
  • Provide basic calculations to the current standard for all specified products.

Customer Relations

  • Follow up schedules with customers via phone calls and emails to build relationships with key contacts.
  • Deliver excellent customer service by attending office and site visits to develop customer relationships, resolve technical issues, and contribute to product design development.
  • Answer technical phone queries.

Project Management

  • Effectively manage multiple live projects, demonstrating a proactive client focus, and ensuring the achievement of delivery dates.
  • Maintain project logs to ensure all reported figures are current, facilitating workload prioritisation.
  • Maintain information/records to achieve successful project management.
  • Actively monitor and amend product delivery dates to suit client programme.
  • Quantify order and control brick requirements for all projects, avoiding delays or discrepancies from clients.
  • Ensure variances to cost are advised to the client, then quoted and claimed.
  • Control carriage charges for all projects by recording and recovering previously unforeseen additional costs from clients.
  • Update the future orders project database daily to ensure all figures reported are accurate and prioritised accordingly.  An accurate six-month forecast is imperative to allow for production planning, although an accurate six-week forecast is critical for short-term planning.

Documentation and Drawings

  • Produce and issue detailed drawings in accordance with agreed timescales.
  • Collaborate with Project Engineers to create manuals as requested by clients.

Key Competencies and Skills:

  • Minimum 2 years’ experience in a construction estimating/technical role.
  • Proficiency in interpreting construction drawings and extracting relevant information efficiently.
  • Strong CAD software skills (e.g., AutoCAD) and familiarity with other design tools.
  • Solid project management abilities for handling multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Excellent attention to detail and commitment to high-quality work.
  • Proactive problem-solving skills for technical challenges.
  • In-depth knowledge of the construction process.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office.
  • Excellent communication and customer service skills.
  • Good organisational skills.
  • Commercial awareness.
  • Target driven and ambitious.
  • Experience with Bluebeam is desirable.

Willingness to travel for site visits and customer interactions.

Established in 2015, IG Masonry Support has built a solid reputation in the high rise building sector for the development and manufacture of innovative stainless steel masonry support and brick slip soffit systems. Combining optimum performance with design flexibility, IG Masonry Support’s range is widely specified and installed in a wide range of high profile projects.  With ongoing growth, IG Masonry is now a multisite operation with locations in Swadlincote and Overseal (South Derbyshire), and, Cookstown (N. Ireland) to service both UK and Irish construction markets.

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