Overview
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This Senior Civil Design Engineer will report to the Design Lead and will work within Capital Programme & Procurement based in our Crawley / Maidstone office. You will be a permanent employee.
Salary: £80,574; Business Car and a bonus of 3%
Close Date: 3rd September 2025.
Benefits
* 23 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
* Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
* Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
* Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan
* Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
* Occupational Health support
* Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers\ products
* Discounted gym membership
* Employee Assistance Programme
Job Purpose
Produce civil designs from a defined scope provided by Project Managers, Customers or Design Leads, including project costings, meeting the requirements for time, quality and budget. Projects could be contestable or non-contestable from internally motivated work (APP) or customer connections.
The Senior Civil designer will communicate with the Project Manager, Electrical designer and Principal Design Co-ordinator, ensuring design compliance, adherence to the Construction Design & Management Regulations (CDM) 2015 and standards providing regulated network solutions for all customers.
Responsibilities
* Produce Civil and Structural Designs that can be constructed in compliance with standards and CDM 2015 requirements
* Produce designs, which conform to all relevant Codes of Practice and company and industry standards together with Electrical engineering works
* Oversee and contribute to the production of technical, commercial and contractual documents for procurement of engineering products
* Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, regulations and company procedures.
* Compliance with design assurance and audit processes
* Support and mentor Trainee and Graduate Engineers to enhance their experience.
* Comply with the requirements of the designer as determined by the CDM 2015 Regulations
* Fulfil the role of Principal Designer as determined by the CDM 2015 Regulations for allocated schemes.
Qualifications
* Civil Engineering degree with relevant Substation, Overhead Line and Cable experience.
* Chartered Engineer or working towards achieving Chartership.
* Civil / structural engineering background in civil engineering and building works within the Utilities sector.
* Competence in resolving civil engineering issues and ability to provide a sound understanding of company policies and their application to this role. Awareness of current and technological developments in civil / structural engineering.
* Work with external engineering organisations and customers/partners representing UKPN to best effect.
* A good safety culture and sound understanding of Construction Design and Management 2015 (CDM) Regulations and their application in this role including IOSH training.
* Work unsupervised, set and comply with own targets, identify cost-saving solutions.
* Good team working skills.
* A good level of business, environmental, safety, financial, and regulatory awareness;
* A general appreciation of financial reporting systems;
* Knowledge of the ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 procedures relevant to the team\s activities;
* Knowledge of Microsoft desktop applications, in particular: Word, Excel, Project and PowerPoint;
* Manage and communicate with the CAD team to produce design drawings suitable for construction. This would not include line management.
* Experience of planning permissions.
* Experience of site surveying and setting out.
* Knowledge of AutoCAD (also Bentley software would be beneficial).
* Experience of building services.
* Broad knowledge of power engineering plant and equipment i.e. Transformers, Switchgear, cables, and protection schemes.
* Experience of: Roadworks, external works including drainage, building reinforced concrete foundations, superstructure including structural steel works, brick block cavity walls, different types of roofing, reinforced concrete structures.
* Input into construction ideas and techniques, which feed into UK Power Networks Green Action Plan.
* Capable to approve designs
Nature and scope
Largely desk-based, the post also requires to visit operational sites, construction sites, site meetings, manufacturers meetings (at their premises) and internal review meetings.
Health & Safety Responsibilities
Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.
Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.
If in doubt ask!
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
If you have any queries in connection to this vacancy or your application, please contact us at careers@ukpowernetworks.co.uk quoting the vacancy reference number and a member of the team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.
Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
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