Job Description

Founded over 40 years ago this civil and structural engineering practice is now well established throughout the North of England. Working with Private and Public Sector clients they have been involved in a range projects including roads, railways, harbour works, water supply and treatment and sewage works.

Civil Engineering currently accounts for approximately 20% of their business and feeds largely from the schemes their structural engineers are involved with. These are predominantly in the retail and commercial sector working for major UK retail and banking organisations.

They also have scope to run bespoke civil engineering schemes and are looking to develop this area of their business further.

Opportunity for a suitably experienced Civil Engineer to join our client’s small team and play a lead role in delivering infrastructure design for a number of schemes across varying sectors. The main purpose of your role will be to produce detailed infrastructure design in line with relevant adoption standards (S38 / S104 / S278) incorporating highways and drainage design.

The role requires you to manage your own workload in line with project requirements and you will liaise with necessary statutory undertakers to ensure successful adoption of designs. You are also likely to be required to make regular contact with your client and supervise junior staff.

Qualifications/Skills Required

To carry out this role it is essential that you have previous experience in highways design and any drainage experience would be a distinct advantage. You will need to be familiar with Local Authority adoption procedures and you should be comfortable taking a client facing role. You will be a well rounded design engineer, fully competent in AutoCAD and capable of managing multiple design schemes.