Civil Engineer

Civil Engineer or Civil Design Engineer

Water Sector

Flexible location - Birmingham, Glasgow, Chester, Redhill, Swansea, Bradford, Wiltshire, Leeds

Contract or staff

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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. xwzovoh
• 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