The Role
Provides administrative and coordination support to engineering, technical, and project teams across water and energy infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include preparing technical documents, maintaining document registers and revision records, coordinating information requests, tracking deliverables and milestones, supporting audits and compliance, maintaining project trackers, and assisting with onboarding and general project administration.
Summary Generated by Built In
Join Trant Engineering and help shape the delivery of complex, high-impact projects.
Trant Engineering is a leading EPC contractor with a strong reputation for delivering innovative engineering solutions across the UK and internationally. With over 1,000 employees and a £150m turnover, we’re growing—and now looking for an Technical Administrator to play a key role in our project delivery teams.
The Role
The Technical Administrator provides essential administrative and coordination support to engineering, technical, and project teams across multiple water and energy projects. The role ensures technical information, documentation, and processes are organised, up to date, and compliant, enabling efficient project delivery in a regulated infrastructure environment.
What You’ll Be Doing
Technical & Engineering Support
- Provide day-to-day administrative support to engineering and technical teams across multiple projects.
- Assist engineers and technical leads with the preparation, formatting, and issue of technical documents, reports, and correspondence.
- Maintain records of technical deliverables, approvals, and actions.
Documentation & Information Management
- Support document control activities, including document registers, transmittals, and tracking of revisions.
- Ensure technical documents are correctly filed, version-controlled, and accessible in document management systems.
- Liaise with Document Controllers to ensure alignment with document control procedures.
Coordination & Communication.
- Act as a point of contact for technical information requests within the project team.
- Support communication between design teams, project teams, site teams, and external stakeholders.
- Attend weekly Document Control Team meetings.
Project & Compliance Support
- Assist with tracking technical deliverables against project programmes and milestones.
- Support compliance with company procedures, client requirements, and regulatory obligations.
- Assist with preparation for audits, inspections, and client reviews.
General Administration
- Maintain trackers, logs, and schedules related to technical activities.
- Support onboarding of new team members with systems, processes, and documentation.
- Provide general administrative support to the project or engineering function as required
Key Interfaces
- Engineers (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Process, Instrumentation)
- Engineering / Technical Managers.
- CAD / BIM Teams
- Project Managers / Project Engineers
- Construction / Site Teams
- Commissioning Teams
- Document Controllers / Senior Document Controllers / Document Control Manager
- Project Support / Administration Teams
- Client Project Teams
- Regulatory Bodies / Asset Owners
- Subcontractors & Suppliers
- Design Consultants
Core Values
Uphold and promote the Company’s Core Values – Care, Trust, Respect and Sustainability.
Uphold and promote the Company’s Core Values – Care, Trust, Respect and Sustainability.
What We’re Looking For
Essential
- Experience in an administrative, technical support, or project support role within engineering, construction, or infrastructure environments.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and document management systems.
- Attention to detail and a structured, methodical approach to work.
Desirable
- NVQ, HNC/HND, Degree, or equivalent experience in Business Administration, Engineering Support, Construction Management, or a related discipline
- Experience in water and/or energy sector projects.
- Familiarity with document control processes and EDMS platforms (e.g. Aconex, Viewpoint, Asite, SharePoint).
- Basic understanding of engineering or technical documentation.
- Experience supporting multi-site projects or framework contracts.
Why Join Trant?
At Trant Engineering, we deliver complex, high-value engineering and construction projects across the UK. From process and water treatment to energy infrastructure upgrades, we play a key role in delivering and protecting critical national infrastructure – shaping the systems that communities and industries rely on every day.
Our teams design and deliver full EPC solutions, combining technical excellence with practical, hands-on delivery. We offer end-to-end capabilities – from concept and design through to manufacturing, construction and commissioning utilising a continually evolving in-house expertise. This means you’ll work on projects that are varied, challenging and genuinely impactful.
Our multi-disciplinary teams bring together specialists in civil, mechanical, electrical, process, instrumentation, and control & automation engineering, alongside our in-house manufacturing of control panels, MCCs, PLCs and SCADA systems. With over 1,000 people and a strong, growing pipeline of work, it’s an exciting time to join Trant. We are committed to helping our people succeed through our Career Development Association, providing structured support, mentoring and clear pathways to help you reach your full potential.
Whether you’re starting out or looking to take your next career step, Trant offers the chance to develop, progress and make a real difference.
Our teams design and deliver full EPC solutions, combining technical excellence with practical, hands-on delivery. We offer end-to-end capabilities – from concept and design through to manufacturing, construction and commissioning utilising a continually evolving in-house expertise. This means you’ll work on projects that are varied, challenging and genuinely impactful.
Our multi-disciplinary teams bring together specialists in civil, mechanical, electrical, process, instrumentation, and control & automation engineering, alongside our in-house manufacturing of control panels, MCCs, PLCs and SCADA systems. With over 1,000 people and a strong, growing pipeline of work, it’s an exciting time to join Trant. We are committed to helping our people succeed through our Career Development Association, providing structured support, mentoring and clear pathways to help you reach your full potential.
Whether you’re starting out or looking to take your next career step, Trant offers the chance to develop, progress and make a real difference.
Our company benefits package includes.
- Competitive salary.
- Company car or car allowance (some levels.)
- Mentored support within our ‘Career Development Association’, to work towards chartership.
- 24 days holiday (increasing with service) + 8 bank holidays.
- Options to buy additional holiday via salary sacrifice.
- Company Pension Scheme.
- Flexible working based on a ‘core hours’ system.
- 1 x Professional Membership paid annually.
- Hybrid working.
- Employee assistance program.
- Free onsite parking.
- Bike to Work scheme.
- Discretionary annual bonus.
Ready to take the next step in your career? Apply now and be part of something bigger.
About
Trant Engineering has a long history of engineering and construction excellence, delivering high quality EPC engineering and construction services throughout the UK and overseas. We successfully design & deliver complex engineering projects in sectors such as Process & Water, Energy, Defence, Oil & Gas and Nuclear. We offer clients a range of services including design, manufacturing, installation, construction and commissioning. Through collaboration with our strategic technology partners and enhancing our in-house design and manufacturing capability, we have aligned the company to be at the forefront of engineering excellence.Our in-house multi-disciplinary services include civil, process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation, supplemented by the design and manufacture of Control Panels, MCC’s, PLC’s, SCADA and automation systems. We have over 1000 employees and with a healthy forward order book with a targeted turnover of £150m this year, it is an exciting time to join a business where you can reach your full potential and develop your career.
Skills Required
- Experience in an administrative, technical support, or project support role within engineering, construction, or infrastructure environments
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Experience with document management systems
- Attention to detail and a structured, methodical approach to work
- NVQ, HNC, HND, degree, or equivalent experience in Business Administration, Engineering Support, Construction Management, or a related discipline
- Experience in water and/or energy sector projects
- Familiarity with document control processes and EDMS platforms such as Aconex, Viewpoint, Asite, or SharePoint
- Basic understanding of engineering or technical documentation
- Experience supporting multi-site projects or framework contracts
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The Company
What We Do
Trant Engineering Ltd is a UK-based engineering, procurement and construction company delivering technology-led solutions for complex projects. It serves energy, process and water, and nuclear sectors, offering in-house civil, process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation design, manufacturing, installation, construction and commissioning. With more than 1,000 employees, it supports EPC projects through integrated multidisciplinary capabilities and strategic technology partnerships across the UK and overseas.
