Senior Civil Engineer (Infrastructure)

Our client are a Global Multi-disciplinary design consultancy who are looking to add to their Flood Risk & Drainage Team based in their Central London head office.  They have offices all over the world and are a company based on culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. They work with public/private sector land promoters and house builders, developers, signature architects, Government, and local authorities. Some of the multi-disciplinary services that you will help deliver include:

Civil engineering, highways design and earthworks strategies

Utilities, energy planning and coordination

Drainage, flood risk and SuDS

Site appraisal, due diligence, and strategic planning advice.

The Role:

Providing day to day support in the delivery of concept studies / strategies with hands on design, leading to planning applications, technical approval submissions and construction drawing issue

Contributing to all types of Development projects across all sectors and clients

Being active on several varied multi-disciplinary project/client accounts at any given time.

You will be supported by a team of experienced and developing technical staff of various grades, to whom you will be expected to provide guidance and support as appropriate

Involvement in high profile client engagement, stakeholder management, design team liaison (both internal and with other external multidisciplinary professionals) and project management

Being responsible, or actively engaged depending on experience, for ensuring your projects are delivered to budget, programme, technical standards and legal requirements.

What you need to succeed:

Knowledge of, and experience in highway design, drainage strategy and design, flood risk assessment and management, utility design and planning as well as a working knowledge of the Development Industry

An appreciation of hydraulics, hydrology, geotechnics and building structures as well as an understanding of construction design stages and procedures

The ability to produce infrastructure masterplans, site appraisals, technical reports, design calculations and construction drawings

Knowledge of the relevant design codes such as Water UK Sewerage Sector Guidance, Design Manual for Roads & Bridges, Manual for Streets, Local Authority Design Guidance and are well versed in the preparation of drawings for contract documentation and technical approvals

Aware of current and emerging technical and planning guidance on climate change and sustainability

The ability to use or direct and check the use of relevant software including InfoDrainage, Civils 3D and/or PDS

Experience of liaison with clients, co-professionals and design teams, and competence in liaising with highway, water, statutory and local authorities to negotiate the necessary outline and detailed technical approvals and statutory agreements typically relating to development projects

Knowledge of the relevant legal processes, planning, design, design software, technical consents process, adoption and contract procedures for the provision of sewers, SuDS, highways and utilities to new developments and regeneration projects and how if, applied effectively, these skills combine to add value to a client’s development proposal

Knowledge of the financial and contractual aspects of planning, bidding, and delivering both large and small projects

Postgraduate (or equivalent) experience and are at least nearing Chartership or have equivalent commercial experience and responsibility.

What's on offer:

Work-life balance

Health & Wellbeing packages

Flex your time

Extensive Career Professional Development

Chartership Progreamme