Civil Engineer
Leicestershire, East Midlands
Salary : £35k (DOE)
This multi-disciplinary civil and structural engineering consultancy that have been around for over two decades and due to increase in project commissions and appointments, the consultancy seeks to appoint a full-time Civil Engineer to support their project delivery team.
Benefits:
- Company pension, Employee Assistance programme (EAP) and private medical aid (subject to successfully completing the probationary period).
- Offers a flexible work from home arrangement with office attendance envisaged at one or two days per week, and an increasing annual leave allocation (year 3 one day extra, same in year 4, same in year 5 until a max of 28 days annual leave is accrued).
Key responsibilities and accountabilities associated with the role are as follows:
- Collaborating with the project delivery team to create and develop foul and surface water drainage designs.
- Collaborating with the project delivery team to create and develop highway/roadway/car parking designs.
- Providing high quality concept, preliminary and detailed technical designs for SuDS components, for adoptable as well as private drainage schemes.
- Preparing Developer Enquiries, Environment Agency product requests and LLFA information requests, relating to drainage designs, flood risk assessments and drainage strategies.
- Preparing S104, S106 and S185 application forms and associated packages for submission to the Drainage Authority and Planning Authority.
- Report writing, e.g. Flood Risk Assessments, Drainage Strategies, Technical Notes in response to Planning Authority queries.
- Preparing S278, S38 application forms and associated packages for submission to the Highway Authority and Planning Authority.
Candidates should meet most of the following criteria:
- The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 4 years’ recent, relevant experience in a consultancy environment in a similar Civil Engineering role.
- Expertise in a range of relevant software packages including but not limited to Micro Drainage (WinDes), Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Microsoft suite of programs.
- Recent, relevant experience of detailed design for a variety of drainage works including but not limited to residential schemes, commercial schemes, car parks and industrial schemes.
- An understanding of Section 104, 106 and 185 of the Water Industry Act 1991 agreements and submission criteria for drainage schemes.
- An understanding of Section 278 and 38 of the Highways Act 1980 agreements and submission criteria for roadway and access schemes.