Principal Civil Engineer
- Location:
-
Chester
- Sector:
- Water
- Job Type:
- Permanent
- Salary:
- £60k - 65k per year
- Reference:
- SK/R/088472
Role
Principal Civil Engineer (water/flood management)
Salary: £65,000 (DEO)
Location: Chester, UK
Contract Type: Full Time Permanent (9 day working fortnight)
We are an industry-respected and growing Flood Risk, Coastal & Maritime business based throughout the UK and Ireland. Our teams consult, deliver and manage Critical Human Infrastructure projects across the entire Water and Flood Risk Management sector. Your expertise and experience will be vital to support key Clients, such as the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales and Water Utility Companies. You should have an aspiration to follow a technical career and have experience in the appraisal and design of civil infrastructure schemes. The ability to travel to Client offices and project sites is essential.
Responsibilities of the role:
- Undertake the role of Design Manager to co-ordinate packages of work within budget and to programme to meet the Client’s requirements
- Ensure our Quality Assurance process is undertaken for technical review of deliverables
- Understand project scope and identify contractual change
- Understand the customer’s basic and performance needs
- Lead multi-disciplinary project teams to undertake feasibility assessments, optioneering, outline and detailed design, liaising with internal teams such as ecology, geotechnical engineering for input into design
- Provide technical advice to engineers and graduate engineers
Essential Requirements
- Professional Qualification (CEng or C.WEM)
- Degree in Civil Engineering, Water & Environmental Management or a related subject
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team of internal professionals, and third-party asset owners, stakeholders, technical officers and contractors
- Motivated to work on flood and coastal risk management and water projects - experience in at least one of these fields is required
- Experience of working on projects at appraisal, outline design, detailed design and constructions stages
Desirable Requirements
- Experience of flood and coastal risk management and water projects
- Experience of producing flood risk assessments
- Experience of undertaking structural inspections for bridges, floodwalls and gauging weirs
Company information:
At First Recruitment Group we understand just how important it is to secure the right people. That’s why our consultants always take the time to understand requirements in detail and offer sound advice to both clients and candidates. If you would like more information please contact Jack Challinor.
