Project Engineer - GI Works

Laing O'Rourke group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering and construction company is seeking a Project Engineer (Senior Agent) for a transformative power infrastructure project in Birmingham and Lincolnshire. This full-time, permanent role involves overseeing technical construction for enabling works and infrastructure delivery. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Civil Engineering and substantial experience in major projects, ensuring effective contractor management, safety, and quality standards. Join us to make significant contributions to the UK's energy future.

Benefits

Stability and long-term work

Career-defining opportunities

Supportive team culture

Focus on safety and sustainability

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Power, Electrification, Civils, or similar.
• Capacity to manage and deliver major infrastructure projects.
• Understanding of safety and environmental impacts in construction.

Responsibilities

• Provide construction input in the design phase.
• Ensure constraints are managed to facilitate overhead line installation.
• Manage utility diversions and oversee construction processes.

Skills

Track record of delivering major infrastructure projects

Strong HSE management and leadership capabilities

Deep understanding of project delivery lifecycle

Effective contractor management

Quality management expertise

Temporary Works Knowledge

Design & Build experience

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering

Job description

Project Engineer (Senior Agent) – Power (OLE Linear Enabling – ECI Works)

Location: 2025 to 2026 Birmingham UK and Lincolnshire for Delivery (Nationwide opportunities coming up)

Sector: Power / Major Civils Infrastructure

Type: Full-time, Permanent

Be part of one of the largest upgrades to the UK power network in decades — a transformative, high-value project that will shape the nation's energy future.

We're looking for a Project Engineer to take the lead on complex technical set up and delivery of critical infrastructure in the Power sector. If you're passionate about delivering technical excellence, driving safety, and managing major infrastructure at scale, we want to hear from you.

You'll provide technical construction of the civil engineering elements to enable large scale OLE infrastructure. Do you have a background in enabling works, Civil Engineering or Structures? If the answer is yes, this could be the role for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing buildability and construction input into the detailed design completed by the Lot 1 designers
• clearing the way of all constraints to allow the new overhead lines to be built.
• Installing all temporary works, haul roads, drainage, compounds
• Managing Utility diversions
• Installing permanent overhead line tower foundations

Essential Skills & Experience

• Track record of delivering major infrastructure projects (Power, Electrification, Civils, Rail, Highways, Wastewater or similar)
• Strong HSE management and leadership capabilities
• Deep understanding of project delivery lifecycle – scope, schedule, cost, and quality
• Effective contractor management and construction knowledge
• Quality management expertise and attention to technical detail
• Temporary Works Knowledge
• Design & Build experience
• Degree in Civil Engineering or similar qualification, including apprenticeship routes, and on-the-job experience

Desirable Experience

• Transmission Power Projects
• National Grid Projects experience
• GIS Mapping
• DFMA product coordination

Why Join This Project?

• Stability and very long-term work
• Work on one of the most significant energy upgrades in UK history
• Career-defining opportunity with high visibility and impact
• Supportive, forward-thinking team culture
• Strong focus on safety, sustainability, and innovation

The upgrade is for the route from Grimsby towards Bury St Edmunds. Do you want to work on a large scale power project in excess of 40km? Then join us in these early phases and make your mark. The project will require travel to Birmingham and Bury St Edmunds in the first 12 months before mobilising to Lincolnshire in 2026.

About Us

Laing O'Rourke 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.

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