Civil Engineer or Civil Design Engineer
Water Sector
Flexible location - Birmingham, Glasgow, Chester, Redhill, Swansea, Bradford, Wiltshire, Leeds
Contract or staff
CIVIL ENGINEER JOB SPEC
About the Role
Typically, you will organise and/or undertake civil engineering activities within multi-disciplinary teams, whilst potentially supporting and mentoring more junior engineers. The role involves responsibility for:
* undertaking strategic studies, feasibility work, outline and detailed designs for a wide variety of water utilities projects including water and wastewater treatment, conveyance and reservoir dam safety,
* producing calculations and reports to support those designs,
* working directly with clients to understand their needs and develop solutions to their problems,
* producing business cases and proposals to enable our clients to fund their projects,
* working with our construction partners to improve safety of designs and understand and improve the construction process,
* ensuring our designs take account of buildability, sustainability, H&S and environmental requirements
About You
* Approaching or at Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status with the Institution of Civil Engineers or another relevant institution.
* Previous experience in the water sector is not essential, we would look for technical skills transferrable to a civil engineering role in the water sector.
* Desire to support and mentor more junior engineers towards achieving Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status.
* Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
* Self-motivated and effective team player.
CIVIL DESIGN ENGINEER ROLE
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems and applicable engineering codes and standards.
* Preparing calculations and develop civil engineering deliverables (models, drawings and reports) whilst adhering to project budgets, schedules and quality systems.
* Providing guidance to others and support continuous improvement
* Coordinate with internal and external team members on complex projects
* Prepare a variety of complex civil engineering deliverables for large or multiple projects.
* Develop recommendations for materials and construction techniques.
* Develop specifications for the identification, collection and management of data for engineering work.
* Serve as a technical specialist and use knowledge and skill set to provide advice and guidance to project teams.
* Mentor and develop junior staff
* Be fully conversant and comply with all aspects of health & safety duties of Designers
Person Specification:
* Civil Engineering Design and/or Hydraulics/Structural background
* Experience in design and build
* Knowledge & Experience in the design and checking of non-infrastructure water/wastewater treatment works design
* Ability to lead and manage a team of civil engineers and associated specialists (structural, geotechnical and hydraulics) and to interface with other disciplines in the production of engineering deliverables