Civil Engineer

Job description

Civil Engineer or Civil Design Engineer

Water Sector

Flexible location - Birmingham, Glasgow, Chester, Redhill, Swansea, Bradford, Wiltshire, Leeds

Contract or staff

CIVIL ENGINEER JOB SPEC

About the Role

Typically, you will organise and/or undertake civil engineering activities within multi-disciplinary teams, whilst potentially supporting and mentoring more junior engineers. The role involves responsibility for:

• undertaking strategic studies, feasibility work, outline and detailed designs for a wide variety of water utilities projects including water and wastewater treatment, conveyance and reservoir dam safety,
• producing calculations and reports to support those designs,
• working directly with clients to understand their needs and develop solutions to their problems,
• producing business cases and proposals to enable our clients to fund their projects,
• working with our construction partners to improve safety of designs and understand and improve the construction process,
• ensuring our designs take account of buildability, sustainability, H&S and environmental requirements

About You

• Approaching or at Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status with the Institution of Civil Engineers or another relevant institution.
• Previous experience in the water sector is not essential, we would look for technical skills transferrable to a civil engineering role in the water sector.
• Desire to support and mentor more junior engineers towards achieving Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Self-motivated and effective team player.

CIVIL DESIGN ENGINEER ROLE

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems and applicable engineering codes and standards.
• Preparing calculations and develop civil engineering deliverables (models, drawings and reports) whilst adhering to project budgets, schedules and quality systems.
• Providing guidance to others and support continuous improvement
• Coordinate with internal and external team members on complex projects
• Prepare a variety of complex civil engineering deliverables for large or multiple projects.
• Develop recommendations for materials and construction techniques.
• Develop specifications for the identification, collection and management of data for engineering work.
• Serve as a technical specialist and use knowledge and skill set to provide advice and guidance to project teams.
• Mentor and develop junior staff
• Be fully conversant and comply with all aspects of health & safety duties of Designers

Person Specification:

• Civil Engineering Design and/or Hydraulics/Structural background
• Experience in design and build
• Knowledge & Experience in the design and checking of non-infrastructure water/wastewater treatment works design
• Ability to lead and manage a team of civil engineers and associated specialists (structural, geotechnical and hydraulics) and to interface with other disciplines in the production of engineering deliverables

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

England

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

30-04-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English