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Our client is a market leader in MEP engineering across the rail, power, energy, water & tunnelling markets. They have a 5-7 year pipeline of major projects UK-wide. Due to expansion, a key hire will be a Head of Business Assurance who will lead the approach to business assurance, governance, and continuous improvement. In this senior leadership position, you will ensure that functional and operational risks are understood, managed, and effectively reduced through a robust, digitally-enabled business management system. You will collaborate with senior leaders and operational teams to maintain ISO accreditations, operational licences, and assurance systems, driving a culture of excellence and “safety-first” across the business. Key Responsibilities: Business Assurance & Management Systems • Develop, implement, and maintain an effective multi-function Business Management System across all functions and projects, operated digitally via Asite., • Work with operational and functional leads to ensure system changes are identified, impact-assessed, implemented, and tracked., • Lead and support maintenance of key ISO Standards, including:, • ISO 9001 (Quality), • ISO 14001 (Environmental), • ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety), • ISO 45003 (Psychological Health & Safety), • ISO 27001 (Information Security), • Support operational teams with maintaining key licences to operate, such as:, • RISQS (Rail), HERS (Highways), FORS (Fleet), Achilles UVDB (Power), LPS/FIRAS (Fire), NICEIC (Electrical)., • Support functional leads in maintaining accreditations such as:, • PAS 2080 (Carbon), CEMARS (Carbon), Construction Line (HSE), Achilles Building Confidence (HSE). Audit, Risk & Compliance: • Own and implement a business-wide risk-based audit schedule, covering internal and external compliance requirements., • Work with the Group Commercial Director on project-focused commercial audits., • Manage relationships with external accreditation and membership bodies, ensuring effective planning and renewals., • Lead business management reviews aligned with ISO requirements and strategic assurance objectives., • Oversee approval and onboarding of supply chain partners to the marketplace. Continuous Improvement & Culture • Promote a culture of learning and continuous improvement across the business., • Encourage collaboration and shared ownership of assurance and compliance activities., • Take a proactive role within the Safety and Project Support Services Leadership Team. Leadership & Team Development • Recruit, lead, and develop the Business Assurance Team to ensure high performance and engagement., • Review team competencies and ensure appropriate training, qualifications, and behaviours., • Deliver HR activities such as appraisals, salary reviews, succession planning, and talent development., • Define clear objectives and development pathways for all team members. Qualifications: • Lead Auditor Certificate in ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, or ISO 27001., • Diploma-level qualification in Quality Management and/or Health & Safety., • Chartered Member of the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI)., • Certified or Chartered Member of IOSH or IIRSM.

🗓️ Planner – London | £65,000–£75,000 + £5,750 Car Allowance | Permanent | Full-Time Are you an experienced Planner ready to play a key role in delivering major UK infrastructure projects? This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading civil engineering organisation, renowned for innovation and excellence across transportation, energy, tunnelling, and construction sectors. 🚀 The Opportunity We’re seeking a Planner to join our London Paddington office on a permanent, full-time basis. You’ll support bid teams by providing expert planning, scheduling, and project performance reporting — helping to shape and secure complex, high-value projects across the UK. 🏗️ What You’ll Do • Develop detailed and robust tender and project programmes, • Support bid teams with planning deliverables and post-tender handovers, • Identify and evaluate risks within programmes to ensure resilience, • Cost and resource load programmes effectively, • Provide planning insights to both bid and delivery teams, • Use Primavera P6 to build, monitor, and update project schedules, • Ensure seamless communication and knowledge transfer post-award 👤 About You You’ll bring a blend of technical skill, commercial acumen, and collaborative spirit, including: • Strong knowledge of civil engineering and construction methods, • Understanding of procurement legislation and commercial contracts, • Proficiency with Primavera P6 and other planning tools, • Excellent analytical and communication skills, • A proactive, team-focused approach and the ability to deliver to tight deadlines 💼 What’s on Offer • £65,000–£75,000 salary (dependent on experience), • £5,750 car allowance, • Comprehensive benefits package including pension and healthcare plan, • Accommodation allowance if based outside a reasonable commuting distance, • Excellent training and career development with a global leader in construction If you’re passionate about precision, planning, and performance — and want to help deliver the UK’s most ambitious infrastructure projects — we’d love to hear from you. 👉 Apply now or get in touch to find out more.

Would you like to be part of Vital Energi’s Strategy of Growth? If so, we are looking for Mechanical Design engineers to join our design teams located in Blackburn, London, Scotland, Swansea and Newcastle. We are currently looking for • Intermediate Design Engineer, • Senior Design Engineers, • Principle Design Engineers The company Vital Energi are at the forefront of the UK's low carbon energy generating systems of the future. We work in the construction industry, in a rapidly expanding market for Heat and Power Solutions from renewable energy. As a leading turnkey engineering contractor, we design, construct, install, operate and maintain environmentally friendly energy generating systems and networks. Due to Vital Energi's continued growth, we require a Principle and Senior (Civils, Structural, Architectural) design engineers based at our Head Office in Blackburn, to work in this exciting and growing sector of the industry. The Role: Reporting to the Principal Engineer (CSA), this role involves a broad range of detailed design including District Heating excavation, tunnelling and support design, energy centre design, and general foundation, pipe support, builders-work design. This will include taking concept designs and producing a fully detailed design for the projects team to install. This will at times include initial project conceptual work, site investigations and surveys, client meetings and input into project submissions and presentations. Working within a team of different grades of construction design professionals you will be responsible for delivering the construction design across multiple teams and projects including energy centre layouts, structural steel details, architectural details, and planning / building regulations submissions. Other key duties involve the writing of specifications for the procurement of construction products and services, and liaison with all other internal and external design disciplines to deliver a fully coordinated solution. Familiarity with industrial and commercial construction and refurbishment technologies is essential. Key Duties: • Produce the design of energy centres & associated construction infrastructure up to the point of handover., • Developing the design staff and teams with a ‘hands on’ approach to meet the quality standards and to strict deadlines., • Review cost implications within design, undertake lifecycle costing analysis, and value engineering., • Effectively deal with design issues and minimise their impact., • Liaising with internal and external designers, customers, and Vital Energi’s in-house project teams, and lead multi-disciplinary design & coordination reviews providing technical due diligence., • Awareness and appreciation of other disciplines including mechanical and electrical., • Fluency with BIM and the ability to coordinate multi-disciplines with our in-house CAD team., • Be proactive and ensuring compliance with CDM requirements and our in in-house design processes., • Conduct and contribute to HAZOP Studies, Risk Assessments, etc., • Fluency with current Building Regulations, industry guidance such as RIBA, RICS, ICE etc, and all pertinent legislation., • Ensuring compliance with legislation, engineering best practices in line with company procedures such as Building Safety Act, CDM 2015, Principal Designer duties, etc., • Assistance in specifying the construction aspects for tendering works., • Work closely with the client to further develop relationships and promote the company., • Undertake site inspection reports and providing technical support during construction. The Person: The successful candidates will ideally be qualified at Degree level, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a design/ design build environment. The individuals will have: • Be a construction industry professional (Chartered or working towards)., • Have experience in contributing to design risk reviews., • Have experience with training and mentoring construction design staff., • Sound understanding of design principles including steel frame, reinforced concrete and traditional construction methods., • Fluency with current Building Regulations., • Fluency with National Design Specifications (NES/NBS) and competent in AutoCAD (2D)., • Experience/ competence of being effective communicators, who are confident and focused, with the ability to manage their time and duties in a professional and effective way., • Be able to demonstrate excellent technical ability and communication skills both written and verbal., • Be fluent with the RIBA Plan of Work and relevant design standards and stages. The Package: • Attractive/ Competitive Salary (depending upon experience)., • Company car/ Allowance- Experience dependant, • Contributory Company Pension Scheme, • Non-contributory death-in-service insurance, • 33 Days Holiday including BH, • Flexible working hours patterns, • Office based at our Head Office in Blackburn with occasional travel to sites across the UK, • Plus other benefits to be discussed. Applications will be processed within 28 days of receipt. If you have not heard from us within this time period it will mean that your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful. Thank you for your interest in Vital Energi. The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/ or merit. It is company policy that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sex, race, colour, age, ethnic or national origins, political affiliations, religious beliefs, marital status, physical disability or is disadvantaged by unjustifiable conditions or requirements. Only applicants who are legally entitled to work in the UK and are currently resident in the UK are invited to apply. Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Vital Energi Utilities Ltd is not accepting unsolicited CVs from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. CVs submitted to any Vital Energi Utilities Ltd employee by a third-party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Vital Energi Utilities Ltd. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.

Senior Estimator London Paddington Salary: £80,000 - £85,000 per annum depending on skills and experience (plus car allowance or company vehicle) Full Time, Permanent (37.5 hours per week) About us HOCHTIEF (UK) Construction Limited is a leading international civil engineering company, specialising in complex market segments such as Transportation, Energy, Tunnelling, Building, Civil and Structural Engineering. HOCHTIEF (UK) Construction Limited are proud of our achievements and our reputation for innovation, dynamism and excellence and we are conscious of the fact that this success has been built firmly on the commitment and dedication of each member of our team. About the role We are looking to expand our Work Winning team with skilled and enthusiastic individuals to deliver various tenders across the UK. The team are now looking for a Senior Estimator to join them on a permanent basis. You will support with the preparations of detailed and accurate pricing for tenders and assist clients with pricing support for early contractor involvement projects. You will ensure company governance procedures are followed at all times and work in coordination with the Bid Manager to ensure competitive pricing. You will be required to agree methodologies and outputs for key activities with planner and, where appropriate, with Bid Manager/Design Manger and provide advice to Bid Manager/Design Manager on most cost effective design options. The role requires you to produce competitive price using methodologies and outputs etc to suit conditions/ situations relevant to the scheme and advise the Bid Manager of sufficiency of client bill of quantity/activity schedule and arrange for full quantity take off or checking as required. Please note that this role will be office based 5 days a week until successful completion of the 6 month probationary period where you can apply to work from home 1 day per week. About you It is essential that you have sound knowledge of civil engineering and construction techniques and of relevant procurement legislation. Commercial awareness of different forms of contracts is also required along with a detailed knowledge of estimating software packages. What we offer We will provide a competitive salary and benefits (including pension and health care plan), accommodation allowance (if outside of a reasonable commuting distance) and access to outstanding training and career opportunities. How to apply If you have a passion for quality, an innovative mind, the drive and determination to succeed, and meet the above requirements, we would love to hear from you. Please e-mail your CV and covering letter to: HOCHTIEF recognises the benefit of diversity and welcomes all applications. HOCHTIEF is working with our Preferred Suppliers therefore any unsolicited applications received from Recruitment Agencies will not be considered.

Head of Business Assurance £75k + company benefits Our client is a market leader in MEP engineering across the rail, power, energy, water & tunnelling markets. Due to expansion, a key hire will be a Head of Business Assurance who will lead the approach to business assurance, g

Job Title: Project Manager- Tunnelling Type: Permanent Location: London Salary: dependant on experience Job Reference: JHPM I am looking for a project manager with a good civil tunnelling engineering background, to deliver engineering technical excellence on works. Role You will have previo

The company is looking for an experienced Legal Counsel with experience in non-contentious matters to join their London office and UK operations. As a qualified or experienced Legal Counsel who has experience working on UK NEC and ideally JCT projects, you will have worked on tunnelling, water, buil

Bid Writer My client are a well-established main contractor specialising in Highways and Rail Infrastructure, Energy, Tunnelling and Civil and Structural Engineering sector. They require a Bid Writer to join their work winning team in their central London office You will produce responses for PQQs

Delivery Lead - Underground Civil Assets Acton, London (Hybrid Working) Project Overview We are partnering with a Delivery Unit on one of the UK’s most significant, high-profile tunnelling and rail infrastructure programmes. The Opportunity As the Delivery Lead - Underground Civil Assets, y

Snowdon Recruitment are working with a well established M&E contractor who specialise in delivering electrical services across the commercial and industrial sectors. This company are looking for an experienced Project Manager to join their team in Sidcup. As Project Manager, you will take ownership of projects from planning through to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. Main Duties for the Project Manager • Lead M&E projects, • Develop and maintain strong client relationships, • Oversee teams and subcontractors, • Monitor budgets, timelines and project progress, • Compliance with health and safety regulations, • Conduct site surveys, • £65,000 basic salary plus car allowance, • Paid holidays, • Enhanced Maternity/Paternity leave, • Free parking Proven experience managing M&E or infrastructure projects, ideally within the transport or tunnelling sector. Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate an...

🌟 Bid Writer – London Paddington 💷 £42,000- £45,000 per annum + car allowance/company vehicle 🕒 Full-time | Permanent (37.5 hours per week) Are you a talented writer with a knack for crafting persuasive and high-quality bids? This is your chance to join a leading name in the UK’s civil engineering and infrastructure sector — a company known for innovation, excellence, and delivering complex projects across Transportation, Energy, Tunnelling, Building, and Civil Engineering. 🚀 The Opportunity We’re looking for an enthusiastic Bid Writer to join a dynamic Work Winning team based in our London Paddington office. You’ll play a key role in producing winning bid responses, case studies, and project materials that stand out to clients and showcase our expertise. In this role, you will: • Develop clear, compelling written content for PQQs and Tenders., • Collaborate closely with Bid Managers, Coordinators, and Technical teams to bring bids to life., • Edit, proofread, and ensure submissions meet the highest standards., • Help deliver exceptional, on-time tender documents that make an impact. ✍️ About You We’re seeking someone with: • A background in writing or journalism, ideally with experience in construction or civil engineering., • Strong written communication skills and the ability to tailor content to client needs., • A collaborative mindset with the confidence to question assumptions, share ideas, and take initiative. 💼 What’s on Offer • Competitive salary and benefits, including pension and healthcare., • Car allowance or company vehicle., • Accommodation allowance if you’re based outside reasonable commuting distance., • Excellent training and career development opportunities within a global leader in the construction sector. 💡 Ready to take the next step? If you’re passionate about quality, innovation, and delivering excellence, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and help us shape the future of infrastructure.

Shift Manager / PIC (TBM Operations). Days & Nights Key Responsibilities: Act as Shift Manager / Person in Charge (PIC) Deputy, ensuring effective management of TBM production operations and consumables. Coordinate with the Shift Manager and Supervisors to guarantee smooth progress of tunnelling ope

Whether its building construction, civil engineering, road construction, underground engineering, bridge building, tunnelling, construction material production, project development or building management – we are always one step ahead so that we can become the most innovative and sustainable const

Demonstrable interest in tunnelling projects and promoting the tunnelling activities in the transport and utility sectors. Tunnelling engineers worked as part of a large multidisciplinary and international team to deliver this high-profile project. Tunnelling and underground structures engineering g

Senior Quantity Surveyor – Tunnelling. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of working on large civils schemes, major projects background, either within heavy civils, tunnelling, earthworks, highways or rail infrastructure.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record of working on large civil / tunnelling schemes, with a background, either within heavy civils, and structures, highways or infrastructure.

Joseph Gallagher Ltd (JGL) is offering an exciting opportunity for x2 Graduate Trainee Slurry Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Operators to join our specialist tunnelling division. Comprehensive training will be provided by Joseph Gallagher Ltd, including both on‑site practical instruction and classroo

Shaft Sinking, Tunnelling and Trenchless Works.

Criteria Strong knowledge of secondary lining to tunnels and shafts using reinforced concrete methods in the marine and tunnelling environment. TBM, pipe jack and secondary lining tunnelling structures. Tunnelling Safety Training Scheme (TSTS) qualification.

We are currently looking for a Tunnelling Engineer or Senior Tunnelling Engineer, to join our Geotechnics and Tunnelling business. Tunnelling Engineer / Senior Tunnelling Engineer. Tunnelling Engineer / Senior Tunnelling Engineer.

We are currently looking for a Tunnelling Engineer or Senior Tunnelling Engineer, to join our Geotechnics and Tunnelling business. Tunnelling Engineer / Senior Tunnelling Engineer. Tunnelling Engineer / Senior Tunnelling Engineer.

Tunnelling Site and Section Engineers.

Work as part of a dynamic team of tunnelling and geotechnical engineers on diverse projects ranging from micro-tunnels and trenchless solutions to major road and rail schemes at all stages of delivery from feasibility through to construction. Experience in the management and delivery of tunnelling p

We are currently looking for a Principal or Associate Tunnelling Engineer, to join our Geotechnical and Tunnelling business to contribute to the growth of the team and diversification into new markets and sectors. Principal / Associate Tunnelling Engineer. Work as part of a dynamic team of tunnellin

We are currently looking for a Tunnelling Engineer or Senior Tunnelling Engineer, to join our Geotechnics and Tunnelling business. Tunnelling Engineer / Senior Tunnelling Engineer. Tunnelling Engineer / Senior Tunnelling Engineer.

We are currently looking for a Tunnelling Engineer or Senior Tunnelling Engineer, to join our Geotechnics and Tunnelling business. Tunnelling Engineer / Senior Tunnelling Engineer. Tunnelling Engineer / Senior Tunnelling Engineer.