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