Facade Production Engineer

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Would you thrive driving high quality manufacture of precast concrete facades for Europe's most advanced concrete products facility, Laing O'Rourke's Centre of Excellence for Modern Construction?

Are you passionate about influencing the quality of the industry's most iconic Building & Infrastructure projects?

Do you have an understanding of what clients are looking for when it comes to the quality control of precast concrete architectural finishes?

Are you great with people and a strong team player?

Then we would love to hear from you!!

We are looking for a proactive Production Engineer to join the Quality team at Laing O'Rourke's Centre of Excellence for Modern Construction (CEMC) in Worksop, Steetley, Nottinghamshire.

CEMC is at the heart of Laing O'Rourke's commitment to offsite manufacturing, and is the industry leading offsite precast facility, which began production in July 2009, manufacturing a range of products including walls, floors, columns, beams, platforms and bridge components for Laing O'Rourke's and external client's projects throughout the UK. Current projects include Everton's new stadium, Olympia redevelopment, Oxford Humanities and various HS2 packages.

Take a look at the facility: https://youtu.be/NuVqXPhsID0

The role of the Production Engineer is to provide technical assurance to the manufacturing operational team to deliver high quality product to client specification

The Opportunity:

• The purpose of the Production Engineer is to formulate and drive the development and implementation of the CEMC Quality Management System, alongside the Quality Lead
• This role exists to ensure client and CEMC Quality requirements are understood, agreed, and built into a robust Project Quality Plan, and are subsequently executed effectively through the manufacturing process at CEMC.
• In this role, you will coordinate with Manufacturing Operations, Pre-cast Technical Solutions (PTS), Engineering and Project Coordination to control and improve the quality levels of goods and services.
• This role will involve assisting continuous improvement and product development, whilst always maintaining compliance with project specification
• The role will include managing and developing temporary works systems for projects that improve manufacturing efficiency, safety and consistency, whilst ensuring specification requirements are achieved

What will the role look like?:

• Lead the development, update and implementation of Project Quality Plans and contract specific Inspection &Test Plans (ITP's)
• Fully understand the specification requirements and assist the development of manufacturing methods and processes that enable requirements to be achieved
• Ensure manufacturing task sheets and method statements incorporate systems, processes and suitable hold points to enable effective manufacture and specification requirements to be achieved
• Ensure the quality requirements are set out in the "Acceptable Standards" documents and understood and implemented by the production teams prior to first cast manufacture
• Support Root cause analysis processes for non-conforming product to drive continual improvement in internal and external quality metrics, and sharing learning across CEMC
• Regularly and proactively update processes as required to ensure product compliance
• Review finished product to evaluate effectiveness of manufacturing processes and procedures, capturing lessons learned and ensuring these are communicated to the team
• Promote and build improvement plans to increase Right First Time
• Report regularly on the quality performance trends in your area of responsibility, proactively seeking opportunities to drive improvements
• Provide direct feedback and advice on the effectiveness of Quality Control activities and raising concern if quality requirements are not being consistently achieved
• Interrogate design information to identify key interfaces and ensure suitable controls are implemented for compliance
• Identify product and project materials testing requirements and ensure these are captured within the Project Quality Plan and collection of records is implemented
• Undertake the role of Temporary Works Supervisor / Deputy Temporary Works Coordinator as appropriate, depending on the risk level for specific project/product, in coordination with the CEMC Temporary Works Coordinator
• Promote and implement Engineered Safety initiatives
• Work collaboratively with all functions, forming strong professional relationships across CEMC
• Set high standards and represent the Quality and Technical function within the production area
• Provide challenge in a professional and inclusive manner, to drive improvements in Quality, representing the views of the client at all times

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• Experience within the Technical/Engineering function, ideally within a project execution remit (e.g Site/Section Engineer or equivalent)
• Good understanding of concrete standards and specifications
• Good understanding of construction tolerances
• Strong decision maker
• Commercial awareness
• Be able to represent the business on Quality matters and be able to present on Quality performance.

Interpersonal Skills Required

• Excellent communication skills
• Leads by example at all times
• Ability to work with team and wider team across all levels of the business to solve problems
• Able to present and articulate ideas and processes to achieve buy in
• Respects other team members
• Presents a professional image
• Promotes the values of the business
• An ability to communicate effectively at all levels with a 'one team' approach.
• Fully participates with initiatives to promote safety, quality, sustainability, respect and engagement

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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Company

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

“As an engineering enterprise, Laing O'Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general.”

– Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer

Our Origin Story:

Diversity & Inclusion:

Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Laing O'Rourkebelieves that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES

Laing O'Rourke have ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of the diversity and inclusion sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other.

The sub-committees help to drive education, events and initiatives across the organisation as well as help colleagues to understand their purpose.

Current subcommitteesinclude Dis-Ability, Carers, Ethnicity, Gender, Families that live abroad,LGBTQ+, Women & Menopause, & Working Families.

Support for Disabled Employees:

• LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership and management have undertakendisability awareness trainingand are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommitteeis an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity and long term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.
• Disability Confident Leaders– We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.
• LOR are members of theBusiness Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support line.
• LOR are partnering withEven Breakto have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion.

Sustainability:

In April 2021 Laing O’Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include:

• To be a net zero company by 2050
• By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff

Rewards andBenefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension – basic and enhanced schemes
• Health and Wellbeing
• Virtual GP
• Health Assessment (Age 50+)
• Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 5 days leave extra can be purchased
• Employee Discounts
• Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade

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