Senior Civil Underground Designer

January 7, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Senior Civil Underground Designer

Company: John Wood Group

Job description: Job Description:

The preferred partner for delivering digitally enabled capital investments with low carbon solutions.

Wood’s Projects business unit specialists in delivering predictable and consistent results in high complexity projects that include new technology, challenging construction logistics and, or sheer scale. Just like the nature and expansiveness of our sectors, so is our Projects business, in its solutions, abilities and global track record. Across any major capital project lifecycle, we provide a full suite of solutions from programme and project management, to engineering and design, procurement, construction and project delivery.

Powered by a global team of more than 12,000 people, we deliver some of the world’s boldest and most critical projects in many diverse and evolving sectors, including:

  • Upstream / Midstream / Downstream Oil & Gas
  • Chemicals
  • Renewable Energy
  • Power
  • Mining & Minerals
  • Industrials & Manufacturing
  • Life Sciences
  • Transportation
  • Water
  • Government services

The Role:

We have an opportunity for a Senior Civil Underground Designer.

We work on a variety of projects including carbon capture, hydrogen power, waste to energy, biofuels, recycling, petrochemical, and oil & gas.

  • Responsible for the design of underground and over ground drainage systems and networks, develop drainage design solution, capable of terrain modelling, conduct flood risk studies, preparation of earthwork and site preparation design
  • Responsible for assessing design of existing underground and over ground drainage systems and networks, develop drainage design solution
  • Responsible for carrying our design studies and preparing project related design calculations, drawings and documents such as basis of design, philosophies, specifications, etc.
  • Responsible for reviewing, checking and commenting drawings and supervise designers in the preparation of Drawings in accordance with Wood and Client technical work practices and standards
  • Responsible for ensuring that all design activities are carried out within stipulated Man-hour budgets and time schedules
  • Within area of responsibility manage work progress and schedule, prepare progress reports
  • Advise Lead Engineer of any technical issues, schedule slippages, their causes and proposed corrective actions
  • Assists in the preparation of any contract requisitions and schedules of quantity for work on assigned projects
  • Work with inter-disciplinary teams on the project to deliver suitable designs. Liaises with client, construction personnel on site and addresses technical queries
  • Within area of responsibility prepare estimates, MTOs, estimate basis memo
  • Keep abreast of the project strategy and key drivers, participate in Model Reviews as and when required and report changes to the Lead Designer/Lead Engineer
  • #Hybrid

If all of this sounds good to you, review the requirements of the position below, then follow the link to apply and start your journey with Wood.

About Us:

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.

Expected salary:

Location: Reading

Job date: Sun, 07 Jan 2024 08:27:38 GMT

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