Our client is an award-winning multidisciplinary design consultancy and are recruiting within their Portsmouth office. This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Civil Engineer to develop and manage the creation of complex technical designs, and to project manage various schemes across a diverse range of clients.
Our client is heavily involved in a multitude of projects at various stages in their project lifecycle, from appraisal through to construction, and in several different sectors including residential, commercial, and retirement & care. You can expect to work on a client base ranging from local smaller scale businesses to local government, respected regional contractors, national housebuilders, and commercial developers.
What’s on offer
*Hybrid / Flexible working
*Ability to buy/sell holiday
*Sick pay
*Bonus scheme / annual salary reviews
*Professional membership paid with ICE Chartership support
*Cycle to work scheme
*Enhanced Internal Training Scheme
*Employee assistance programme
*Private healthcare
The role
*Work within a Civil Engineering design team responsible for the design of drainage systems, highway layouts, and S278/S38 schemes,
*Work in a design office, with regular exposure to developers, architects and local authorities.
*Understand the company’s services, market sectors, specialisms, procedures and processes
*Have knowledge of and willing to learn other engineering software
*Reviewing of junior team members reports, design and drawing work
*Attend client meetings and site visits
*Co-operate with the Quality Management System (QMS) through undertaking administrative activities
*Mentoring and training of junior staff
*Develop marketing and business development material appropriate to the role
*Identify opportunities for bringing work into the business and team and follow up on these opportunities
*Attend and actively engage at networking events with senior team members.
*Undertake and manage team resource for design work for; Drainage systems in accordance with Sewers for Adoption, building regulations and the SuDS Manual. And on and off-site highway features, in accordance with the appropriate standards and codes e.g. Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, and Manual for Streets
*Be responsible for writing fee proposals
*Proficient in AutoCAD and Site 3D or equivalent 3D software
What you need to succeed
*Incorporated Engineer (IEng) [or working towards] with the Institution of Civil Engineers
*A degree or HND in Civil Engineering
*5+ years’ consultancy experience
*Experience working with local authorities, developers and architects on civil engineering aspects of residential, commercial and retirement/care schemes
*Varied experience working on schemes through the planning process; from pre-app through to condition discharge
*Civil engineering project management experience including projects combining drainage, external works and highways elements.