Join The UK's Largest Land Manager and make a meaningful impact on the long‑term resilience of these important environments.
About the Role
In this varied and rewarding position, you will play a key role in planning, specifying, and delivering a broad programme of civil engineering works. Working with external contractors and internal colleagues, you'll help ensure vital assets remain safe, compliant, and fit for purpose.
Alongside maintaining essential infrastructure, you will support projects that improve habitats, increase environmental resilience and help deliver their commitment to making the nation's forests some of the most valuable places for wildlife to thrive.
You will also contribute to inspections, maintenance activities, minor design work, record‑keeping, and the development of a low‑carbon, sustainable future.
Making sure safety comes first and contractors follow H&S standards
Planning and delivering maintenance and project work
Setting up and managing contracts, including pre‑start meetings
Checking safety documents (RAMS) are in place and compliant
Keeping an eye on contractor performance and flagging issues
Supporting senior engineers on bigger or more complex projects
Managing and supporting works supervisors/operators
Producing simple designs and keeping asset records up to date
Supporting the delivery of infrastructure projects that contribute to biodiversity enhancement and nature recovery objectives.
Working with environmental specialists and operational teams to ensure engineering solutions support wider ecological outcomes.
What's In It For You?
This role offers benefits and lifestyle advantages rarely matched in the private‑sector construction world:
Annual salary up to £33,854 (possible £5,000 in addition if required)
Work-Life Balance - Hybrid working that fits around your lifestyle across a 37-hour week
A 27% employer pension contribution - far above typical industry rates.
Generous Annual Leave - 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to 30 days, plus public holidays.
Perks & Discounts - Access to a wide range of employee benefits, lifestyle discounts, and wellbeing offers.
Meaningful Work - Contribute directly to a nature recovery programme, delivering projects that improve habitats, enhance biodiversity, increase landscape resilience and support the long-term protection of natural environments.
Qualification support - An all encompassing role that lends itself well to ICE Chartership progress
Skills, Experience & Knowledge
Experience in a civil engineering role (planning, design, or site/contract supervision).
Minimum of HNC / D in Civil Engineering
Ability to work effectively with both internal teams and external partners.
Experience designing and safely delivering civil engineering projects, with a solid understanding of CDM regulations and related legislation.
NEC4 contract management exposure (not essential)
Confident IT user, including MS Office and ideally AutoCAD (plus any other relevant civils software)
Clear, confident written and verbal communication skills.
Clean UK DVLA licence
What you need to do now
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Salary description
£30000.00 - £40000.00 per year