Design Engineer

Cambridge County Council; Alconbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

Additional annual leave

Flexible bank holidays

Annual pension contributions and AVCs

Development opportunities and coaches

Volunteer hours

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is seeking two Design Engineers to join our Infrastructure and Project Delivery service to develop and deliver local infrastructure projects across Cambridgeshire.

You will lead medium-complexity projects, develop designs within scopes, budgets and programmes, and ensure CDM 2015 and health and safety requirements are embedded. You’ll collaborate with consultants, contractors and external partners to deliver practical, constructible designs.

Qualifications

• A degree in Civil Engineering or a related subject, or equivalent experience.
• Professional membership, or working towards membership.
• Experience in development, planning and design of transport infrastructure or related projects.
• Knowledge of highway design requirements and CDM 2015, including responsibilities of Designers and Principal Designers.
• Experience producing detailed construction drawings for tender.
• Ability to manage programmes, budgets and project risks.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to explain technical information clearly to non-engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of infrastructure projects, taking responsibility for planning, design, programme, budget and risk.
• Work across highway design disciplines to broaden technical capability.
• Turn engineering challenges into practical, deliverable solutions.
• Influence projects from optioneering through to construction-ready design.

Skills

Civil engineering design

Transport infrastructure

CDM 2015 knowledge

Tender drawings

Programmes & budgets

Risk management

AutoCAD

Communication skills

Non-technical explanation

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering or related subject

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

Help design infrastructure that makes a real difference to communities

Are you a civil or highways engineer looking for a role where you can see the impact of your work in the places people live, travel and work?

We're looking for two Design Engineers to join our team and help develop and deliver local infrastructure projects across Cambridgeshire.

This is an opportunity to take designs from ideas through to construction-ready solutions, working on projects across highways, bridges, rights of way and other local infrastructure. You'll combine technical engineering with problem-solving, collaboration and engagement with the communities our projects serve.

No two projects will be quite the same.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Lead the design of infrastructure projects, taking responsibility for planning, design, programme, budget and risk.
• Work across a range of highway design disciplines, building your experience and broadening your technical capability.
• Turn engineering challenges into practical, deliverable solutions.
• Influence projects from optioneering through to construction-ready design.
• Champion best value and lower-carbon solutions, considering social, environmental and financial benefits.
• Work with communities, elected members, businesses, landowners and partner organisations.
• Help develop less experienced colleagues and contribute to a culture where good ideas and constructive challenge are welcomed.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

What will you be doing?

As a Design Engineer, you'll be a technical lead on medium-complexity infrastructure projects and an important part of our wider Infrastructure and Project Delivery service.

You’ll develop designs within agreed scopes, budgets and programmes while ensuring that CDM 2015 and health and safety requirements are embedded throughout the design process. You'll consider how your design choices affect construction as well as the people who will ultimately use the infrastructure.

You’ll also work closely with colleagues, consultants, contractors and external partners. Depending on the project, that could include District Councils, the Department for Transport, National Highways, Network Rail, the Environment Agency, community groups and others.

About you

You’ll bring a strong grounding in civil engineering or transport infrastructure design and the confidence to take ownership of your work.

You’ll need:

• A degree in Civil Engineering or a related subject, or equivalent experience.
• Professional membership, or to be working towards membership.
• Experience in the development, planning and design of transport infrastructure or related projects.
• Knowledge of highway design requirements and CDM 2015, including the responsibilities of Designers and Principal Designers.
• Experience producing detailed construction drawings for tender.
• The ability to manage programmes, budgets and project risks.
• Confidence using AutoCAD.
• Strong communication, problem-solving and organisational skills.
• The ability to explain technical information clearly to people who may not have an engineering background.

Experience of managing consultants and contractors, working with elected members and the public, and mentoring less experienced colleagues also forms part of the role.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self‑organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers