Our client is an award-winning multidisciplinary design consultancy and are recruiting within their Portsmouth office. This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Civil Engineer to develop and manage the creation of complex technical designs, and to project manage various schemes across a diverse range of clients.

Our client is heavily involved in a multitude of projects at various stages in their project lifecycle, from appraisal through to construction, and in several different sectors including residential, commercial, and retirement & care. You can expect to work on a client base ranging from local smaller scale businesses to local government, respected regional contractors, national housebuilders, and commercial developers.

What’s on offer

• Hybrid / Flexible working
• Ability to buy/sell holiday
• Sick pay
• Bonus scheme / annual salary reviews
• Professional membership paid with ICE Chartership support
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced Internal Training Scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Private healthcare

The role

• Work within a Civil Engineering design team responsible for the design of drainage systems, highway layouts, and S278/S38 schemes,
• Work in a design office, with regular exposure to developers, architects and local authorities.
• Understand the company’s services, market sectors, specialisms, procedures and processes
• Have knowledge of and willing to learn other engineering software
• Reviewing of junior team members reports, design and drawing work
• Attend client meetings and site visits
• Co-operate with the Quality Management System (QMS) through undertaking administrative activities
• Mentoring and training of junior staff
• Develop marketing and business development material appropriate to the role
• Identify opportunities for bringing work into the business and team and follow up on these opportunities
• Attend and actively engage at networking events with senior team members.
• Undertake and manage team resource for design work for; Drainage systems in accordance with Sewers for Adoption, building regulations and the SuDS Manual. And on and off-site highway features, in accordance with the appropriate standards and codes e.g. Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, and Manual for Streets
• Be responsible for writing fee proposals
• Proficient in AutoCAD and Site 3D or equivalent 3D software

What you need to succeed

• Incorporated Engineer (IEng) [or working towards] with the Institution of Civil Engineers
• A degree or HND in Civil Engineering
• 5+ years’ consultancy experience
• Experience working with local authorities, developers and architects on civil engineering aspects of residential, commercial and retirement/care schemes
• Varied experience working on schemes through the planning process; from pre-app through to condition discharge
• Civil engineering project management experience including projects combining drainage, external works and highways elements.