Who Are We?
- We are McGee. A specialist engineering contractor, with a reputation for designing and delivering some of London’s most complex and innovative civil engineering projects. To name just a few: Constructing Europe’s deepest habitable basement, The Londoner Hotel. Delivering the impossible at Claridge’s Hotel’s mega basement and more recently, designing out 88% of The Acre’s embodied carbon of the temporary works.
- We provide a value-based integrated approach. Focusing on quality and innovation.
- We develop smart engineering solutions to complex problems and develop methods of working that enable fast delivery with safety and quality by design.
- We operate a risk-based approach in everything that we do, identifying and mitigating risks through our planning. We compliment this with our in-house supply chain, self-delivery philosophy and our support services.
- We have technical and operational specialists within each of our core disciplines, including an in-house Construction Engineering team (CET), providing temporary works sequences and solution design and digital modelling.
Are you a dynamic and skilled Senior Digital Engineer looking for an exciting opportunity to join an award-winning in-house Construction Engineering team? This role is an opportunity to lead a small team and contribute to ground breaking projects while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Crafting intricate temporary and enabling works models for both existing and proposed structures using Revit.
- Taking charge of model setup to align with company and ISO standards.
- Ensuring seamless coordination of design and task team models, collaborating closely with site and Construction Engineering team engineers for fully coordinated solutions.
- Generating drawings and models for site teams to use in procurement and construction.
- Creating models for clash detection.
- Developing models suitable for animation, bid/tender responses, cost analysis, and planning (4D+5D).
- Actively participating in design coordination meetings, documenting changes, and potential issues.
- Creating models to provide the Carbon team with volumes and carbon values, assisting key project stakeholders in carbon-related decisions.
- Producing and maintaining 3D as-built models for project handover and tracking newly installed buried services.
- Issuing a weekly working 3D model and corresponding summary reports to clients and other contractors, highlighting key changes and additions.
- Manage time and allocations of team members, communicate realistic deadlines to CET and project teams.
- Delegate resources and workload to ensure timely delivery.
- Plan digital strategy at a project level and resource the production.
- Alongside our other Senior Digital Engineer, provide leadership and mentorship to the wider Digital Engineering team.
- Propose innovations and adaptations to CET and McGee’s methods of working.
- Manage cross-business digital engineering software licensing requirements and access.
- Lead the adoption of new business processes and develop procedures.
- Support the team to deliver, manage performance and development, and assist in recruitment.
- Provide mentorship and allocate work for interns and early careers.
- Develop McGee initiatives to reduce carbon through design.
Key Skills:
Technical skills:
- Expert using Revit to create Structural models and drawings. With the ability to Create Revit families and maintain Revit templates.
- Proficient with Dynamo, Navisworks, Trimble and other construction software’s.
- Expert at interrogating and coordinating models. Proficient manipulating files commonly associated with Revit including, AutoCAD, IFC and Point Clouds.
- General working knowledge of structural systems and load paths
- Understanding of construction sequences and methods
Strategic Skills:
- Assist in the research and implementation of new software’s and processes.
- Drive innovation and be passionate about the advancement of McGee in digital construction.
- Have or be willing to work towards ISO 19650 qualifications.
Leadership:
- Able to lead and monitor a team of technicians over multiple projects.
- Conduct internal reviews of drawings ensuring consistency within the team.
- Assist in the planning and distribution of tasks.
- Be the point of contact for designers and McGee contractors on projects.
- Monitor progress and time spent on design projects.
Why McGee?
We’re on the cusp of our next big leap and this is an excellent opportunity for you to make your mark…….
This role not only offers exciting design engineering challenges – it allows the opportunity to directly influence the construction process. We are looking for someone who wants to grow with the role and potentially move into a lead position in the near future.
If you would like to join a team of exceptional people, working on high-profile complex engineering projects in London, please contact our Recruitment Manager directly at ella.kotlowski@mcgee.co.uk for more details on the role and an initial conversation in the strictest confidence.
McGee is a committed Equal Opportunities and Diversity employer.
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