Overview
Location: Fareham, Hampshire
Hours: Monday to Friday, Flexible Opportunity with Core Hours Required
Salary: Competitive – £40,000 - £60,000 per annum
Holiday: 32 days including bank holidays, increasing with length of service
Sector: Civil Engineering
Senior Civil Engineer
Position Duties
- Develop and manage the creation of complex civil engineering designs for drainage, highways, and infrastructure schemes
- Project manage schemes from concept through to construction, ensuring timelines and budgets are met
- Work closely with local authorities, developers, architects, and other stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
- Review and approve technical designs, drawings, and reports produced by the team
- Manage and allocate team resources to deliver multiple projects efficiently
- Mentor and train junior engineers, supporting their professional development and career progression
- Coordinate and manage specialist sub-consultants on projects
- Prepare fee proposals and support business development initiatives
- Attend client meetings, site visits, and project consultations, providing technical advice and guidance
- Ensure all designs comply with relevant codes, standards, and regulatory frameworks (e.g. Sewers for Adoption, SuDS Manual, DMRB, Manual for Streets)
- Identify, evaluate, and implement engineering solutions, assessing their effectiveness across the project life cycle
- Monitor and manage project budgets, costs, and resources while maintaining commercial awareness
- Maintain and improve quality processes and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
- Apply health, safety, and risk management principles in all design and project activities
- Support marketing and networking activities, promoting the company’s services and building client relationships
Position Requirements
- Degree or HND in Civil Engineering
- Preferably Incorporated Engineer (IEng), or working towards IEng with the Institution of Civil Engineers
- 5+ years’ experience in a civil engineering consultancy environment
- Experience working with local authorities, developers, and architects
- Strong technical knowledge of civil engineering design (drainage systems, highways, S278/S38 schemes)
- Proficiency in AutoCAD and Site 3D (or equivalent 3D design software)
- Understanding of design standards (e.g. Sewers for Adoption, SuDS Manual, DMRB, Manual for Streets)
- Experience across residential, commercial, and retirement/care schemes
- Experience managing projects through the planning process (pre-application to condition discharge)
- Civil engineering project management experience, including schemes with drainage, external works, and highways elements
- Experience coordinating and managing design team resources
- Experience reviewing junior engineers’ reports, drawings, and designs
- Experience attending client meetings and site visits
- Experience preparing fee proposals
- Experience contributing to business development and networking activities
- Ability to solve engineering problems using sound theoretical and practical approaches
- Project management skills, including planning, resource allocation, and delivery
- Commercial awareness, including budget management and cost control
- Knowledge of statutory, regulatory, and commercial frameworks
- Understanding of health, safety, and risk management in design
- Awareness and application of sustainable development principles
- Ability to present and communicate ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Position Remuneration
- 5-hour workdays with flexible working hours, with a core hour requirement allowing for lifestyle and work life balance
- 24 days annual leave, increasing with length of service plus 8 bank holidays
- Day off on your birthday if it falls on a working day
- One community or charity day a year to allow you to support the person projects you love
- Salary sacrifice scheme with the opportunity to purchase or sell annual leave days
- Christmas shut down
- Quarterly and yearly bonus schemes, offering the potential to earn more
- Private healthcare upon completion of probation period
- Bike to work scheme
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