Senior Civil Engineer

Strata Construction Consulting; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy is seeking a Senior Civil Engineer to drive projects in residential, commercial, and other sectors from design to completion. The role demands strong technical skills in civil engineering practices and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, offering hybrid working and professional growth opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Retirement Benefits

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental Leave

Staff Pay/Holidays

Leadership training

Promotion Prospects

Qualifications

• Ability to produce infrastructure masterplans and design calculations.
• Experience in liaising with clients and authorities for approvals.
• Knowledge of planning and legal processes related to civil engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery of civil engineering projects throughout their life cycle.
• Provide support and guidance to junior technical staff.
• Engage in client management and stakeholder communication.

Skills

Communication

Technical Knowledge

Project Management

Education

Civil Engineering Degree

Tools

InfoDrainage

Civils 3D

PDS

Job description

This is an exclusive role with a medium sized consultancy who are based in Manchester and looking to expand their teams with a Senior Civil Engineer to work on their residential, commercial, leisure, retail, education and healthcare projects.

What’s on offer:

• Hybrid working
• Flexible hours
• Retirement Benefits
• Wellbeing
• Parental Leave
• Staff Pay/holidays
• Safe Spaces for people to exercise religious beliefs
• Leadership training, learning and development
• Promotion Prospects

The role:

• Leading day to day technical delivery of civil engineering consultancy services to support our clients through all stages of the project life cycle from feasibility and concept design through to planning, detailed design, and construction.
• Bringing expertise in drainage, SuDS, flood risk, highways, streetscape, earthworks, and utilities to all types of land, property and infrastructure development projects across all sectors and clients.
• Being active on several varied multi-disciplinary project/client accounts at any given time.
• You will be supported by a team of experienced and developing technical staff of various grades, to whom you will be expected to provide guidance and support as appropriate.
• Involvement in high profile client engagement, stakeholder management, design team collaboration (both internal and with other external multidisciplinary professionals), and project management
• Being responsible for, or actively engaged in, ensuring your projects are delivered within budget, on programme, and to the required quality for technical and legal compliance.

What you need to succeed:

• The ability to produce infrastructure masterplans, site appraisals, technical reports, design calculations and construction drawings
• Good written and spoken communication skills and are aware of current and emerging technical and planning guidance on climate change and sustainability
• The ability to use or direct and check the use of relevant software including InfoDrainage, Civils 3D and/or PDS
• Experience of liaison with clients, co-professionals and design teams, and competence in liaising with highway, water, statutory and local authorities to negotiate the necessary outline and detailed technical approvals and statutory agreements typically relating to development projects
• A good knowledge of the relevant legal processes, planning, design, design software, technical consents process, adoption and contract procedures for the provision of sewers, SuDS, and utilities to new developments and regeneration projects and how if, applied effectively, these skills combine to add value to a client’s development proposal
• A robust knowledge of the financial and contractual aspects of planning, bidding, and delivering both large and small projects