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

As a Principal Engineer / Project Manager the main purpose of your role will be to act as a point of contact with your Private sector clients to provide technical and planning advice to help progress their developments through planning, detailed design and hand over.

You will work with multiple clients and will be assigned as a specialist contact to work closely with them to enable them to realise their vision and to complete their development projects.

You will have involvement at the very earliest stage providing advice on land planning issues and local authority adoption procedures. You will oversee a small team within our clients 'Pre-Planning Team' who carry out initial feasibility and assessment work before schemes can progress through to detailed design which is carried out by the 'Post-Planning Team'.

Hands-on technical work is likely to be limited but you will need to have an appreciation of technical issues and constraints which may arise further down the line. Ultimately your role will be to ensure client satisfaction and that schemes are delivered to agreed standards and with limitation to any potential problems.

An excellent role that is more than your average PE position and can offer excellent project opportunities.

Qualifications/Skills Required

Candidates for this role may come from a background in highways, infrastructure or traffic and transport engineering and you will need to be familiar with relevant planning and adoption procedures (S38 / S278).

The successful candidate will most likely be a well rounded civil engineer who has gained design experience on highways or infrastructure schemes as well as good project management and client facing skills.

You will need to be well organised and confident speaking with clients and providing advice and guidance. Good communication skills (verbal and written) are therefore essential as is a professional business manner. You will need to be capable of managing your own busy workload whilst also directing the team you work with.

The role will appeal to a good problem solver who enjoys a challenge and is confident in their ability to deliver, comfortable with the management of projects and has good financial acumen and a client focused, value driven approach to engineering.

Some knowledge of Transport Assessments and traffic modelling would be an advantage.