Building Fabric Engineer (Legacy)

Job description

ENGIE is a leading energy and services company focused on three key activities: production and supply of energy, services and regeneration. Our 17,000 employees combine these capabilities for the benefit of individuals, businesses and communities throughout the UK & Ireland.

We enable customers to embrace a lower carbon, more efficient and increasingly digital world. Our customers benefit from our energy efficient and smart building solutions, the provision of effective and innovative services, the transformation of neighbourhoods through regeneration projects, and the supply of reliable, flexible and renewable energy.

ENGIE improves lives through better living and working environments. We help to balance performance with responsibility, enabling progress in a harmonious way.

Globally, the ENGIE Group employs 160,000 people worldwide and achieved revenues of €60.6 billion in 2018.

ENGIE are recruiting for a Building Fabric Engineer (Legacy) to be based in the England or Scotland. This is a permanent full-time role working 37.5 hours per week. On offer is a competitive salary, company vehicle or allowance, bonus and benefits package.

General Overview:  

The main purpose of the role of Building Fabric Engineer (Legacy) is to provide technical support on building fabric matters to assist the Head of Commercial Legacy in the resolution of legacy technical issues and the development of the ongoing hand-back strategy within the Places, Healthcare & Education (“PH&E”) division (which comprises a portfolio of over 80 operational PPP projects).

Key Accountabilities: 

The role will require the post-holder to:

·  have extensive technical expertise and strong commercial awareness; 
·  investigate the root cause(s) of possible or actual building fabric failures/defects and their impact on assets and/or the business;
·  give his/her considered view on likely causation and the events giving rise to any such failures/defects;
·  provide such technical support as is necessary to support any claims made by or against Engie in connection with such failures/defects; 
·  engage with and influence key stakeholders at all levels of the business including end-user clients.

Required Qualifications, Skills or Experience: 

·  Ideally educated to degree level in a relevant discipline (e.g. structural engineering); 
·  Chartered with Institute of Structural Engineering advantageous;
·  experience of building and building fabric structural design across hospital and education sectors;
·  demonstrable technical experience in complex operational PPP contracts;
·  experience of construction claims (including dispute resolution procedures) preferred;
·  experience preparing technical aspects of claims desirable;
·  excellent communication skills;
·  sound understanding of technical risk analysis/management;
·  PC literate with knowledge of MS applications e.g. Word, Excel.

For more information about ENGIE, please visit:

http://www.engie.com/en/candidates-area/

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. There is no re-location package with this job role. ENGIE do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

The ENGIE Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to ENGIE Managers.

If you are a disabled applicant and meet the minimum outlined in the job description, you will be given the opportunity to demonstrate your abilities at interview.

Additional Information
·  Posting Date: Oct 11, 2019