Our Water consultancy client are seeking a Senior Civil Engineer to join their Leeds office on a permanent basis with hybrid working offered.

Applications from Civil Engineers will also be considered.

You will join our clients’ design team in Leeds as part of a multi-disciplinary department providing detailed designs for water related projects in the UK. This role can be worked flexibly with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office and the option of adjusted start and finish times.

Our clients’ water teams have a global knowhow of industry leading technologies, and are providing skills and inventive solutions across the full spectrum of lifecycle services in both water engineering and wider water management – working with 7 out of the 12 UK water and sewerage companies in AMP7 and plenty of AMP8 work underway.

Responsibilities

• Working on predominantly non-infrastructure projects
• Act as a Design Engineer and undertake and check the delivery of design solutions and associated outputs and the co-ordination with other disciplines.
• You will provide technical guidance, support and training to colleagues and assist, where practicable, in mentoring and the development of others.
• You will be involved in projects from conception to completion including; supporting the Project Manager to clarify the project brief, agree deliverables, key milestones, project methodology, quality assurance and control strategy; establishing project checking and approval arrangements
• Managing internal project start-up meetings; undertaking significant elements of the detailed design and the checking of outputs as directed: eg calculations, drawings, sketches, reports etc to achieve the optimum solution for the project
• Assessing, documenting and communicating design changes to the Project Manager; being aware of work requirements and taking personal responsibility in delivering this to agreed time, cost and quality requirements
• Attending “close out meeting” and recommending/implementing improvements to policy, processes and project management methods.
• Involved in business development activities/tenders/managing new and existing client relationships

Skills/experience/qualifications

• Ideally Chartered Engineer status or working towards with a relevant institution eg ICE or CIWEM.
• Strong interpersonal/team working skills, with a good working relationship with all levels of the organisation, clients and contractors together with the ability to communicate in a fluent and positive manner both verbally and written.
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience of water and wastewater non-infrastructure design including an understanding of the basics and the integration of multidisciplinary elements including process engineering and MEICA.
• Extensive experience in design, contract and tender preparation, tender assessment and contract administration.
• Degree qualified in civils subject ideal

Benefits

• Salary up to 60k depending on experience
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Paid professional memberships
• Life assurance
• Generous pension scheme
• Flexible working/hybrid working scheme
• Client soon to be working in Leeds City Centre offices