Civil Engineering Manager | Beaconsfield | Full time

Get Staffed Online Recruitment Limited; Beaconsfield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

Discretionary bonus scheme

Pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Company events

Job summary

Our client, a private residential housebuilder, seeks a Civil Engineering Manager to lead in-house civil engineering across land acquisition, planning, and construction. You will assess risks, influence design solutions and ensure cost-effective, deliverable infrastructure for multiple developments.

As the principal civil engineering specialist, you will coordinate with Land, Planning, Technical, Commercial and Construction teams, manage consultants, and drive continuous improvement and value

Qualifications

• Our client is a design-led, quality-driven business in residential development.
• Degree or equivalent in Civil Engineering; proven residential project delivery experience.
• Experience coordinating utilities, drainage, highways and earthworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead civil engineering input across land acquisitions and planning.
• Oversee highway designs, drainage and earthworks strategies.
• Manage external consultants and budgets for civil packages.
• Support construction with engineering solutions and site inspections.
• Drive value engineering and risk management across developments.

Skills

Residential civil engineering

Project management

Risk assessment

Infrastructure design

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering

HND/HNC in Civil Engineering

Job description

Our client does not just build houses; they create distinctive, high-specification homes designed for modern living.

As a privately owned, multi award-winning regional housebuilder, our client takes pride in delivering thoughtfully designed developments in some of the South East's most sought-after locations.

Our client is looking for an experienced Civil Engineering Manager to join their Technical team and become their principal in-house civil engineering specialist.

This new position will strengthen their in-house engineering expertise and provide a broad scope across their developments, from land acquisition and planning through to construction and completion. You will play a key role in assessing new land opportunities, identifying and managing technical risks, influencing design solutions and ensuring developments are supported by practical, cost-effective and deliverable engineering solutions.

This role will suit someone who is a Residential Civil Engineering Specialist, with strong experience across new homes and a detailed technical understanding of drainage, highways, utilities, levels, earthworks and ground conditions, combined with a practical, commercially minded approach to finding effective engineering solutions.

Scope of the Role

As Civil Engineering Manager, you will provide specialist civil engineering advice across the development lifecycle. Key areas of focus will include:

• Land acquisition: Provide civil engineering input into potential land acquisitions, reviewing topography, existing infrastructure, utilities, flood risk, drainage, ground conditions and highways access.
• Technical risk: Support land bids through technical risk assessments, engineering advice and the preparation of relevant budgets.
• Planning: Work closely with the Land and Planning teams to develop planning strategies, influence site layouts and support planning applications, drainage capacity checks and negotiations relating to highways, drainage and infrastructure.
• Engineering design: Oversee the preparation of highway designs, drainage strategies, levels strategies, earthworks assessments, utility layouts and external works designs.
• Consultant management: Identify where external engineering expertise is required, agreeing appropriate scopes, fees and timescales and ensuring Consultants deliver practical and commercially viable solutions.
• Value engineering: Identify opportunities to improve engineering solutions and reduce costs without compromising quality or deliverability.
• Infrastructure and adoption: Drive the production of design information required for Sectional Agreements and manage the engineering elements of the adoption process.
• Construction support: Work closely with the Construction teams to resolve engineering and infrastructure issues, review design changes and support the delivery of infrastructure and utilities.
• Site inspections: Undertake site inspections to review and sign off civil engineering and infrastructure works.
• Verification: Oversee the collation and production of engineering verification reports.
• Continuous improvement: Share expertise and promote best practice, helping to strengthen civil engineering capability across the Technical team.

About You

• Our client is a design-led and quality-driven business, so experience within residential development and a strong understanding of practical engineering solutions are essential.
• Degree, HNC or HND in Civil Engineering or a related discipline.
• Proven experience in civil engineering within a residential housebuilding or development environment.
• Strong experience in managing utility procurement.
• Strong understanding of residential infrastructure design, highways, drainage, utilities and ground engineering.
• Experience managing engineering consultants and external design teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify practical and commercially viable solutions.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Confident working collaboratively with Land, Planning, Technical, Commercial and Construction teams.
• A proactive approach to identifying technical risks and finding effective solutions.
• An interest in industry developments, emerging technologies, legislation and best practice within residential development and infrastructure design.

What Our Client Offers

• The security of a financially strong, privately owned business.
• Competitive salary.
• Discretionary annual and long-term bonus scheme.
• Enhanced pension scheme via salary exchange.
• Private medical cover (BUPA).
• Annual leave starting at 25 days, increasing to 30 days.
• A comprehensive range of wellbeing benefits, including on-demand GP access, fitness classes, discounted gym membership, Employee Assistance Programme and cycle to work scheme.
• Retail and lifestyle discount scheme.
• A programme of regular company and team events throughout the year.

If you're a Civil Engineering professional who wants to play a key role in shaping developments from land acquisition through to construction, our client would love to hear from you.