Construction jobs in Glasgow

What you would do

• Contract administration (NEC Supervisor).
• Conducting condition surveys including planned preventative maintenance (PPM).
• Preparing reinstatement cost assessments.
• Specification preparation.
• AutoCAD drawing and design work including measured surveys.
• Preparing schedules of condition.

Skills

What you would do

• Provide leadership and direction to the cost management team.
• Set strategy and ambition for the team.
• Identify, coach and mentor talent.
• Act as a brand ambassador and create a pipeline of opportunity.
• Deliver high quality cost management/quantity surveying services across the full project lifecycle.
• Manage and prioritise multiple projects simultaneously.

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What you would do

• Providing technical leadership and strategic direction for major geotechnical programmes and complex ground engineering projects across the UK and internationally.
• Acting as a recognised authority in geotechnical engineering, setting technical standards and providing expert advice on challenging engineering problems.
• Leading technical governance of projects, ensuring quality, risk management and professional excellence.
• Building and maintaining trusted relationships with key clients, industry bodies and external stakeholders.
• Developing long-term client account strategies and leading pursuit of major opportunities, frameworks and flagship projects.
• Directing multidisciplinary teams across multiple projects and regions.

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What you would do

• Carry out day-to-day carpentry repairs in occupied social housing properties.
• Replace and repair internal doors, frames, handles, locks, and hinges.
• Fit and adjust kitchen units, worktops, cupboard doors, and pelmets.
• Install or replace skirting boards, architraves, and decorative joinery.
• Repair or replace timber flooring, stair components, and handrails.
• Record job details, materials used, and completion notes using handheld devices or job sheets.

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What you would do

• Maintain the facility to client expectations, safety and legislative compliance standards.
• Plan and deliver property maintenance systems.
• Liaise with client representatives and build long-term partnerships.
• Monitor performance and produce formal monthly reports to the client and Contracts Manager on compliance, workload, risks and opportunities.
• Control expenditure on delegated budgets within agreed limits.
• Establish contracts, procedures, health and safety systems and audits.

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What you would do

• Carrying out fire engineering analysis on new and existing building projects.
• Analysing fire growth, means of escape, structural fire resistance and smoke control using computer modelling software such as Computational Fluid Dynamics.
• Preparing technical reports and liaising with clients, including large building developers.
• Working across diverse building types including high-rise offices, retail complexes and airport developments.

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What you would do

• Lead technical delivery of mechanical designs for data centre projects, coordinating with the electrical counterpart.
• Guide and check technical work of mechanical engineers and undertake critical design production.
• Design and deliver primary mechanical systems including cooling, ventilation, automation & control, and ancillary support systems.
• Develop understanding of building physics, CFD, and sustainable design solutions.
• Use design production tools (CAD, Bluebeam, calculations, BIM collaboration) to develop solutions.
• Complete detailed designs and supervise others in the function.

Skills

What you would do

• Provide technical leadership and oversight on complex geotechnical design and ground engineering projects.
• Manage and mentor project teams.
• Deliver robust technical solutions ensuring compliance with industry standards and client requirements.
• Act as key point of contact and trusted advisor to clients.
• Support business development through bid preparation, technical presentations, and thought leadership.
• Promote safety, sustainability, and continuous improvement across project activities.

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What you would do

• Carrying out servicing, repairs and routine maintenance on lifts.
• Attending breakdowns and callouts.
• Fault finding and getting lifts back up and running.
• Keeping sites safe and compliant.
• Completing site logs and basic paperwork.
• Covering a structured route across Glasgow and surrounding areas (commercial, residential and public sites).

Skills

What you would do

• Lead a team of assistant design engineers, design engineers and engineering technicians.
• Inspire and motivate team members to reach individual and team goals.
• Provide feedback and undertake performance reviews.
• Drive team performance day-to-day to ensure deadlines are met and return dates are communicated to sales teams.
• Prepare temporary works designs for medium to high complexity groundworks (cofferdams), formwork & falsework and propping and jacking schemes.
• Check medium to high complexity temporary works designs and provide feedback to designers.

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What you would do

• Contributing to the design and engineering of a wide variety of projects throughout the UK, from new and existing buildings to streets, infrastructure and public realm.
• Collaborating with industry experts, award-winning designers, archaeologists, sustainability specialists, and public and private clients.
• Developing technical and managerial skills as a graduate.

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What you would do

• Undertake detailed machine inspections to confirm or expand field inspection reports and make commercial assessments of repair, replacement or refurbishment work.
• Carry out standard diagnosis tests on machine components for cost evaluations and condition/warranty agreements.
• Produce comprehensive lists of parts and materials required for machine preparation.
• Undertake overhaul, repair or refurbishment work on machines per the agreed work plan, removing and dispatching components for specialist attention and re-installing original or replacement parts.
• Inspect and test completed machines to ensure they meet expected performance levels.
• Maintain machine availability and presentation of machine stock in the yard.

Skills

What you would do

• Lead end-to-end procurement for major UK/Irish projects from early development through execution and contract close out.
• Define contracting strategies and shape technical and commercial scopes with engineering and project management.
• Manage tendering, supplier evaluation, negotiations, and contract award for equipment and construction services (BOP/EPC/Grid/main equipment packages).
• Ensure effective contract execution including change control, claims management, risk mitigation and on-site commercial follow-up.
• Build and maintain supplier and contractor relationships in key markets.
• Coordinate cross-functional input across engineering, sustainability, legal, HSE, finance and project teams.

Skills

What you would do

• Produce primary plant layouts for HV substations.
• Lead engineering design input to major infrastructure projects.
• Undertake project development/pre-construction activities, including developing optimum cable routes considering length, thermal conditions and land use.
• Undertake equipment specifications for HV plant and associated equipment.
• Develop specifications with technology-specific specialists and external project partners.
• Develop tender specifications and undertake tender evaluations.

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What you would do

• Producing accurate and comprehensive resourced-based estimates for infrastructure projects in a timely manner.
• Controlling and managing the estimating process at project level.
• Producing estimates independently without management or supervision.
• Challenging contractors' estimates.
• Supporting development and promotion of estimating good practice within the firm and with clients.
• Staying abreast of developments in own technical area to give best-practice advice.

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What you would do

• Assist with producing primary plant layouts for HV substations.
• Support production of equipment specifications for HV plant and associated equipment.
• Provide engineering design input to major infrastructure projects.
• Support projects in the capacity of an Owners' Engineer.
• Work on HV substation, cable and OHL projects.
• Provide HV design input to renewable energy projects such as battery storage, solar, hydro and wind generation.

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What you would do

• Visit construction sites across Scotland (windfarm/grid connection/underground/sub-sea cabling) to monitor adherence to environmental legislation.
• Carry out and support site inspections and audits of construction works against planning conditions and the Construction Environmental Management Plan.
• Provide guidance and solutions to contractors and clients on environmental compliance and best practice.
• Act as key point of contact, working with ecologists, hydrologists, archaeologists and engineers to deliver an integrated environmental service.
• Liaise with clients, regulatory bodies and subcontractors on environmental management practices.
• Support operation and design teams on environmental compliance and project-specific mitigation measures.

Skills

What you would do

• Lead design input on multi-disciplinary projects from early concepts through to delivery.
• Manage the agreed contract with external design consultants and contractors, ensuring duties are discharged and taking appropriate action if not.
• Lead technical assurance, review constructability, and manage design interfaces.
• Manage multi-disciplinary teams of engineers from consultants and partner companies.
• Liaise with clients, engineering managers, project managers, contractors and consultants on project issues, scope changes and risks.
• Drive development of innovative, practical and sustainable engineering solutions meeting client, operational and regulatory requirements.

Skills

What you would do

• Lead HV substation technical discussions with clients and multi-disciplinary teams, establishing scopes and defining interfaces between HV infrastructure.
• Direct technical delivery of substation design major projects, agreeing approach with engineering teams, monitoring progress, and quality-checking deliverables prior to client issue.
• Apply lifecycle expertise from grid connection studies and concept design through FEED and detailed design to deliver HV substation schemes.
• Liaise with project management teams to develop resourcing forecasts and programmes aligned to construction schedules and critical path milestones.
• Demonstrate commercial awareness through proposal development, project cost monitoring, and identifying opportunities to expand HV scope on frameworks.
• Build trusted relationships with clients, understanding their grid connection strategies and availability requirements.

Skills

What you would do

• Carry out Medium Voltage and Low Voltage design work to DNO Standards.
• Provide Open and Closed Ring and Radial Feeder supply network solutions.
• Carry out Intake and Distribution Substation Layout design (Medium Voltage and Low Voltage).
• Conduct primary plant and equipment design works.
• Produce secondary protection and control solution digesting equipment scheme circuit and wiring diagrams.
• Conduct cable sizing calculations, routing, section, and termination drawings.

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