Job Description

An international practice, corporately they have a well deserved reputation for excellence.

As a whole the practice is recognised as one of the country’s top 50 employers and operates from over 30 offices and employs over 2500 people.

Since its opening five years ago, the Leeds office has become a hub for the organisation in the North, acting as a centre for excellence in a number of sectors. In terms of profile, they have attracted some of the county’s leading players from competitors to form a formidable team who are enjoying unprecedented success in what many describe as a “challenging” region to develop a business in.

Their generous flexible package scheme allows employees to trade the value of their package and exchange it for a wide variety of benefits including:

- 25 days rising to 28 (option to buy and sell plus you get your birthday off)
- Travel Insurance
- Pension
- Life assurance
- Long term disability cover
- Company car at Senior Grades
- Bicycle loans
- Private healthcare
- Bonus scheme

Your role will be to produce drainage and highways designs in line with relevant approval standards, working on a multi-project portfolio and assuming project management responsibilities on schemes up to £20,000 in value.

Working in a multi-disciplinary team you will be involved in carrying out sewer investigations and then producing appropriate design solutions. You will liaise with relevant approving bodies to ensure compliance and you will assist in managing junior staff.

Qualifications/Skills Required

To carry out this role it is essential that you are familiar with relevant adoption procedures and you must be a competent highways and drainage design engineer. You will need to have experience of private and non-adoptable drainage design and be fully conversant with the principles and practice of Sustainable Urban Drainage initiatives.

You will need to be able to produce full highway designs to adoptable standards including vertical and horizontal layouts, and construction details and should be familiar with the DMRB.

It is important that you can work well to tight deadlines and you should have a value driven approach to producing design packages.