Assistant Engineer
Job Title: Assistant Engineer
Location: Great Blakenham, IP6
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Assistant Engineer and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.
Why Persimmon Homes?
At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as a Assistant Engineer, you’ll benefit from:
- Competitive salary
- Company Car or Car Allowance
- 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
- Life Cover & Contributory Pension
- Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
- Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development
What is the role?
The role of an Assistant Engineer is to support a number of housing developments through the delivery of cost effective engineering solutions. The successful candidate must be adaptable, have a strong and consistent management approach to managing external consultants.
Primary Responsibilities
- Assist in the production of layouts and technical reports for Land Appraisals; and required working drawings
- Assist in the briefing and commission of site investigations, topographical survey and other assessment reports on land acquired
- Brief engineering consultants on scope of design, which includes roads sewers private drainage, retaining walls, foundation designs any other substructures below DPC level either private or adopted
- Assist in the Initial negotiations/enquiries with statutory bodies and utility undertakers on environmental, drainage, highways and other engineering issues when appraising land
- Issue engineering information to Commercial, Construction and Sales departments
- Assist in Fee negotiation and appointment of consultants
- Answering Technical queries
- Comply with responsibilities as laid down in the Group’s Health, Safety and Environment Policy
What experience do I need?
- Ideally qualified to HNC level or equivalent in a civil engineering or building-related discipline with some residential project experience
- By way of technical experience you will be conversant with current building regulations and CDM you will also have a thorough knowledge of current EA/LLFA/Water Authority/Highway regulations and adoption agreements
- Must have excellent knowledge of AutoCAD and be able to communicate effectively with both internal departments and external bodies
- You must be an enthusiastic and hardworking individual who is willing to undertake all necessary training
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