Principal Civil Engineer (Development)

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A little more about your role…

• You will be leading day to day technical delivery of civil engineering consultancy services to support our clients through all stages of the project life-cycle from feasibility and concept design through to planning, detailed design, and construction.
• You will provide technical expertise in drainage, SuDS, flood risk, highways, streetscape, earthworks and utilities to all types of land, property and infrastructure development projects across all sectors and clients.
• You will provide project leadership on several varied multi-disciplinary projects acting as Project Manager where required.
• You will be supported by a team of experienced and developing technical staff of various grades, to whom you will be expected to provide guidance and support as appropriate.
• You will be involved in high profile client engagement, stakeholder management, design team collaboration (both internal and with other external multidisciplinary professionals), and project management.
• You will be responsible for, or actively engaged in, ensuring your projects are delivered within budget, on programme, and to the required quality for technical and legal compliance.

The Development Team is a well-established and high performing discipline within the Planning and Development business unit which includes over 800 colleagues focused on project delivery through the whole project life cycle, from initial land acquisition, planning support and design, through to scheme implementation.

Our vision is to be recognised as the best Development team in the industry. We strive to achieve this through continuous improvement and a management structure comprising of four pillars, namely Expertise, People, Clients and Operational Excellence.

We help our clients to promote, implement and manage sustainable development, from pre-feasibility through to planning consent; establish plans and provision for how an area, its accessibility and needs, will develop over time and guide sustainable future development; and develop multi-disciplinary design from concept through to detailed design and construction.

We work with public/private sector land promoters and house builders, developers, signature architects, Government, and local authorities. Some of the multi-disciplinary services we provide that you will help deliver include:

• Drainage, flood risk and SuDS.
• Civil engineering, highways design and earthworks strategies.
• Utilities, energy planning and coordination.
• Site appraisal, due diligence, and strategic planning advice.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

• Knowledge of and experience in highway design, drainage strategies and technical design, flood risk assessments and management, utility design and planning as well as a working knowledge of the development sector.
• Design experience; focused on the development sector (drainage, flood risk, highways, earthworks and utilities).
• An awareness of hydraulics, hydrology, geotechnics and building structures is desirable as well as an understanding of construction design stages and procedures.
• The ability to produce infrastructure masterplans, site appraisals, technical reports, design calculations and construction drawings.
• Knowledge of the relevant design codes such as Water UK Sewerage Sector Guidance, Design Manual for Roads & Bridges, Manual for Streets, Local Authority Design Guidance, SuDS Manual and are well versed in the preparation of drawings for contract documentation and technical approvals.
• Aware of current and emerging technical and planning guidance on climate change and sustainability.
• The ability to use or direct and check the use of relevant software including Micro Drainage, Info Drainage, Civils 3D and/or PDS.
• Experience of liaison with clients, co-professionals and design teams, and competence in liaising with highway, water, statutory and local authorities to negotiate the necessary outline and detailed technical approvals and statutory agreements typically relating to development projects.
• Knowledge of the relevant legal processes, planning, design, design software, technical consents process, adoption and contract procedures for the provision of sewers, SuDS, highways and utilities to new developments and regeneration projects and how if, applied effectively, these skills combine to add value to a client’s development proposal.
• Knowledge of the financial and contractual aspects of planning, bidding, and delivering both large and small projects.
• Postgraduate (or equivalent) experience and are at least nearing Chartership or have equivalent commercial experience and responsibility.
• Willing to become an ICE Supervising or Delegated Civil Engineer (SCE / DE) to assist with training and development of junior members of the team.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

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