Civil Engineer - Urban Development

Arcadis; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis in Cambridge, United Kingdom seeks a career-minded engineer with proven civil design experience in urban development and buildings projects. The role focuses on surface and foul drainage, utilities, earthworks, and highway interfaces, delivering sustainable outcomes across cross-functional teams.

The candidate will apply MicroDrainage/InfoDrainage and AutoCAD Civil 3D within BIM-enabled projects, ensuring compliance with SuDS, SfA, and relevant standards while mentoring junior staff.

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified with professional status (CEng/IEng) or near-chartered consideration.
• Experience in civil/urban development design within building projects is essential (surface water, highways, utilities).
• Proficiency with MicroDrainage/InfoDrainage, AutoCAD Civil 3D and BIM model integration.
• Strong knowledge of design codes and construction principles (SuDS, SfA, DMRB, Building Regulations).

Responsibilities

• Deliver civil engineering designs for projects with focus on sustainable development and health & safety.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure design integrity across disciplines.
• Prepare design solutions and produce drawings, BIM models, reports and specs.
• Lead design reviews, attend meetings, and check colleagues’ work for accuracy.
• Provide technical input to design logs, risk registers, and project assumptions.
• Mentor junior engineers and technicians, and guide engineering tasks.

Skills

Civil design experience

Drainage design

BIM collaboration

Manual calculation

Education

Chartered Engineer

Degree in Civil Engineering

Tools

MicroDrainage/InfoDrainage

AutoCAD Civil 3D

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

The Places Design Practice is currently seeking to locate a career minded Engineer who has gained proven work experience in the design and delivery of civil engineering / urban development activities as part of buildings projects; including but not limited to, surface & foul drainage, utilities, ground/ earthworks, and highways interfaces.

The role will support the delivery of Urban Development services through the Places Design Practice, including working & collaborating with cross-GBA teams, GEC, and global Places expertise. Experience in Industrial Manufacturing / Tech / Defence projects would be welcomed

Role accountabilities:

• Undertake the civil engineering design for projects, contributing to sustainable development and apply Arcadis Health and Safety Principles during the planning and delivery of work.
• Work in collaboration with other design disciplines, applying engineering solutions to ensure the integrity of the overall design.
• Agree and implement project approach for collaboration with global design colleagues.
• Prepare design solutions for various stages of a project, including production of drawings/BIM models, reports, and specifications.
• Attend project meetings and check the work of other team members to ensure accuracy.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across design, environmental, and construction disciplines.
• Identify and implement specific engineering management arrangements to complement Arcadis Integrated Management System requirements.
• Prepare Designer Hazard Logs, and communicate residual risks to the Principal Designer.
• Provide technical input to project Design Decision Logs and Project Assumptions registers.
• Contribute to the resolution of technical issues on projects and provide technical guidance to other team members, such as more junior engineers, technicians, and apprentices.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree qualified with Chartered or Incorporated status, though candidates close to achieving chartered status will also be considered.
• Relevant experience in the design and delivery of civil engineering / urban development activities as part of buildings projects is essential, including surface water & foul water drainage, highways and utility design.
• Expertise in software design methods such as MicroDrainage/InfoDrainage, AutoCAD Civil 3D, and integration with BIM models.
• Strong understanding of applicable design codes, standards, and construction principles (e.g., SuDS, SfA, DMRB, Building Regulations).
• Maintain and extend a theoretical approach to technology application in engineering practice and use a sound evidence-based approach to problem-solving.
• Technically competent in fundamental design principles and have ability to apply manual calculation methods where software methods are not available.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.