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Are you looking to take the next steps in your career whilst making a difference to local communities and the environment? Do you want to focus on restoring, enhancing and improving the environment whilst helping deliver resilience to climate change? We are seeking an enthusiastic Principal Civil Engineer to lead and deliver a range of environmental improvements, river restoration projects, flood risk, infrastructure and energy schemes across the UK.
Responsibilities
- Technical leadership and management of the design process to develop sustainable and resilient solutions that meet client needs.
- Championing technical innovation to improve efficiency and quality of delivery, ensuring uptake of latest developments in digital design tools.
- Managing, developing and mentoring junior members of staff.
- Building positive relationships with clients, colleagues and key stakeholders.
- End to end project management, including contracts, budgetary control, programmes, change and risk management.
- Development and coordination of multi‑disciplinary teams and subcontractors.
- Leading Safety in Design (CDM) and compliance with environmental legislation.
- Experienced in design relating to earthworks, drainage design, retaining walls and headwalls.
- Ability to undertake site visits in various areas of the UK, including overnight stays.
Qualifications
- Chartered Engineer (CEng), ideally with the ICE, and keen to mentor and support junior staff as they work through our ICE accredited training schemes.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Organised and able to manage the workload of others.
- Commercially minded, with capabilities in the financial and contractual management of projects.
- Pragmatic thinker and solution finder.
- Able to mentor and develop junior staff including with their Initial Professional Development.
- Effective communicator, both internally and with clients and other external stakeholders.
- Works falling under the Reservoirs Act.
- Energy sector projects including sub‑stations, buried cables and battery storage.
- Design and management of flood protection schemes.
- Scour assessments for highways and rail structures.
- Natural flood management and sustainable urban drainage systems.
- Experienced in the use of the NEC4 suite of contracts.
- Hydraulic modelling and Flood Risk Assessment.
Company: JBA
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Job Description:
Are you looking to take the next steps in your career whilst making a difference to local communities and the environment? Do you want to focus on restoring, enhancing and improving the environment whilst helping deliver resilience to climate change? We are seeking an enthusiastic Principal Civil Engineer to lead and deliver a range of environmental improvements, river restoration projects, flood risk, infrastructure and energy schemes across the UK.
Responsibilities
- Technical leadership and management of the design process to develop sustainable and resilient solutions that meet client needs.
- Championing technical innovation to improve efficiency and quality of delivery, ensuring uptake of latest developments in digital design tools.
- Managing, developing and mentoring junior members of staff.
- Building positive relationships with clients, colleagues and key stakeholders.
- End to end project management, including contracts, budgetary control, programmes, change and risk management.
- Development and coordination of multi‑disciplinary teams and subcontractors.
- Leading Safety in Design (CDM) and compliance with environmental legislation.
- Experienced in design relating to earthworks, drainage design, retaining walls and headwalls.
- Ability to undertake site visits in various areas of the UK, including overnight stays.
Qualifications
- Chartered Engineer (CEng), ideally with the ICE, and keen to mentor and support junior staff as they work through our ICE accredited training schemes.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Organised and able to manage the workload of others.
- Commercially minded, with capabilities in the financial and contractual management of projects.
- Pragmatic thinker and solution finder.
- Able to mentor and develop junior staff including with their Initial Professional Development.
- Effective communicator, both internally and with clients and other external stakeholders.
- Works falling under the Reservoirs Act.
- Energy sector projects including sub‑stations, buried cables and battery storage.
- Design and management of flood protection schemes.
- Scour assessments for highways and rail structures.
- Natural flood management and sustainable urban drainage systems.
- Experienced in the use of the NEC4 suite of contracts.
- Hydraulic modelling and Flood Risk Assessment.
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Posted: May 20th, 2026