Principal Civil Engineer (Water)

Sweco; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working (Flexworks

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme

Payment of professional subscriptions

25 days holiday + 5 optional days

Cycle2Work Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee discounts

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Tree planting for new starters

Job summary

Sweco in Peterborough, England, is seeking a Principal Civil Engineer (Water) to lead design delivery for AMP8 projects, guiding engineers and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams. You will ensure designs in reinforced concrete, steel, buried pipework and site infrastructure meet current standards and legislation while balancing time and budget.

You will participate in CDM and commissioning strategy, promote digital modelling, and share knowledge across teams in a collaborative, hybrid working

Qualifications

• Engineering degree (or equivalent) and ideally chartered or working towards it.
• Expertise in reinforced concrete, steel buildings, buried pipework, and site infrastructure.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
• Passion for health, safety, and innovative design solutions.

Responsibilities

• Check and review civil design deliverables produced by other Civil Engineers to ensure the processes and procedures are followed.
• Input into Construction Design Management (CDM) and commissioning strategy meetings.
• Review and ensure the design CDM deliverables have been completed for projects.
• Maintain portfolio awareness in technical areas and disseminate knowledge across the civil engineering team.
• Ensure compliance with Minimum Asset Standards and provide constructive challenges when necessary.
• Work across Alliance project areas and Pan-Alliance to establish technical common standards and processes.
• Implement and embrace new digital technologies to achieve fully attributed 3D models.
• Provide one-on-one or team-based technical guidance and support to engineers.
• Develop design alerts to promote continuous learning and improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder mgmt

Health & safety

Reinforced concrete

Steel structures

Buried pipework

Site infrastructure

Education

Degree in engineering (or equivalent)

Job description

We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.

We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.

With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer’s expectations will come under greater scrutiny.

We need aspiring driven talent to help us achieve our ambitious targets, are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen?

About Sweco

Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week.

As a Principal Civil Engineer within one of our four business units, you’ll provide engineering technical direction, collaborate with key stakeholders and support multi-disciplinary project teams. You’ll provide design support for numerous schemes and ensure all designs are fit for purpose and meet current legislation and standards, and completed on time and within budget.

A key aspect of this role includes leading, coaching, and developing junior and less experienced engineers.

What You’ll Be Doing

Check and review civil design deliverables produced by other Civil Engineers to ensure the processes and procedures are followed.

Input into Construction Design Management (CDM) and commissioning strategy meetings.

Review and ensure the design CDM deliverables have been completed for projects.

Maintain portfolio awareness in technical areas and disseminate knowledge across the civil engineering team.

Ensure compliance with Minimum Asset Standards and provide constructive challenges when necessary.

Work across Alliance project areas and Pan-Alliance to establish technical common standards and processes.

Implement and embrace new digital technologies to achieve fully attributed 3D models.

Provide one-on-one or team-based technical guidance and support to engineers.

Develop design alerts to promote continuous learning and improvement.

About You

You will ideally have:

Degree in engineering (or equivalent) and ideally chartered or working towards it.

Expertise in reinforced concrete, steel buildings, buried pipework, and site infrastructure.

Strong leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.

Passion for health, safety, and innovative design solutions.

If you believe you have the skill set required, are keen to join a business with genuine opportunities for career progression, then we’d love to hear from you.

Let’s transform society together at Sweco.

Employee Benefits

• Flexible and hybrid working (Flexworks Policy)
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme
• Payment of two relevant professional subscriptions
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days per year)
• Cycle2Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (wellbeing, mental health, financial and work advice)
• Employee discounts via Sweco Benefit Select (Faircare)
• Salary Sacrifice Electric Vehicle Scheme
• We plant a tree for all new starters!

A collaborative alliance, driving change. Empowering us to set global benchmarks and building a better environment for our customers. We strive to:

To bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop we:

Build trust; Do the right thing; Are always exploring

Let’s transform society together at Sweco.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

It’s important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.

We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more .

We are an accredited Real Living Wage Employer which reflects our commitment to fair pay and support for all colleagues.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If I have a disability, can I get help (e.g. “reasonable adjustments”) with the application process?

Principal Civil Engineer (Water) Peterborough, England, United Kingdom