Principal Civil Engineer (Water)

SWECO UK LIMITED; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working (Flexworks

Competitive pension contribution

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Company car or car allowance

Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme

Payment of two relevant professional</

Job summary

Sweco UK Limited seeks a Principal Civil Engineer in Ipswich to lead design delivery across multiple schemes within the @one Alliance. You’ll guide technical direction, coach junior engineers and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure safe, compliant, and timely solutions that meet project budgets.

With a chartered status or working towards it, you’ll apply reinforced concrete, steel, buried pipework and site infrastructure expertise, while advancing digital models and standards across the

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering (or equivalent) required.
• Chartered or working towards chartered status preferred.
• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities essential.

Responsibilities

• Check and review civil design deliverables to ensure processes are followed.
• Input into CDM and commissioning strategy meetings.
• Review CDM deliverables for projects and maintain portfolio technical awareness.
• Help establish technical common standards across the alliance.
• Implement new digital technologies for fully attributed 3D models.
• Provide guidance and support to engineers.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Health and safety awareness

Innovative design solutions

Education

Degree in engineering (or equivalent)

Chartered engineer status or working towards it

Job description

About the @one Alliance

The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a totally collaborative organization made up of nine partner companies (Anglian Water, SWECO, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, and Skanska) and an extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water's capital investment programme.

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)
• Competitive pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Company car or car allowance
• 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!

@OneAlliance vision

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

Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance.

@OneAlliance Values

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

The Anglian Water @one Alliance. Nine partners, endless opportunities.

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 The Armed Forces Covenant - Our Commitments | Sweco UK.

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.

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