Principal Civil Infrastructure Engineer (Development)
On-siteManchester, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead day-to-day technical delivery of civil engineering consultancy services from feasibility through construction, providing expertise in drainage, SuDS, flood risk, highways, streetscape, earthworks, and utilities for development projects. Manage multi-disciplinary projects as Project Manager where required, guiding a team of technical staff while handling high-profile client engagement, stakeholder management, and design team collaboration. Ensure projects are delivered within budget, on programme, and to required quality standards for technical and legal compliance. Produce infrastructure masterplans, site appraisals, technical reports, design calculations, and construction drawings using relevant software. Liaise with clients, co-professionals, and statutory authorities to negotiate technical approvals and agreements for new developments and regeneration projects.
Required Qualifications
- Knowledge of and experience in highway design, drainage strategies and technical design, flood risk assessments and management, utility design and planning
- Working knowledge of the development sector
- Design experience focused on the development sector (drainage, flood risk, highways, earthworks and utilities)
- Awareness of hydraulics, hydrology, geotechnics and building structures
- Understanding of construction design stages and procedures
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Knowledge of the financial and contractual aspects of planning, bidding, and delivering both large and small projects
- Postgraduate (or equivalent) experience
- 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
Desired Qualifications
- An awareness of hydraulics, hydrology, geotechnics and building structures is desirable
- Understanding of construction design stages and procedures
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