Senior Civil Engineer (Housebuilder)

Strata Construction Consulting UK Ltd; Tandridge; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housebuilder is seeking a Senior Civil Engineer to join their established land and development team. This role involves developing engineering strategies to aid land acquisition while collaborating with technical teams. Candidates should have substantial experience in residential housebuilding and excellent communication skills to influence and negotiate effectively.

Benefits

Car allowance

Additional benefits included

Qualifications

• Previous exposure to a similar role within a UK housebuilder.
• Familiarity with engineering-related software.
• Strong organisational skills and commercial awareness.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering strategies and support land acquisition processes.
• Produce accurate technical reports and manage engineering input for planning applications.
• Collaborate with external engineers and the land team for project success.

Skills

Technical and engineering aspects of house building design

Highway & Sewer Standards

Construction Design & Management Regulations

Good decision-making skills

Excellent communication skills

Strong mathematical ability

Ability to analyse complex data

Budget management

Collaborative work

Job description

Senior Civil Engineer (Housing Developer)

GBP45,000 to GBP60,000 + car/car allowance + benefits + package

Our client is a fast growing top 10 UK housebuilder. They design and build quality homes and create places where people want to live.

Their comprehensive skills and capabilities give us a wider perspective across the whole housing lifecycle and we create lower risk ways of building homes people need.

For more than 90 years our work has been absolutely visible to local communities so being part of the community is in our DNA.

Job description

Main purpose of the role

As their Senior Development Engineer, you will provide lean but robust engineering strategies as part of an established, successful land and development team. The role will be working primarily with the land team to de-risk bids and support the due diligence process for land acquisition approval. This would include technical reporting and providing strategies for drainage, cut & fill, retaining walls, foundations, and utilities. Support with groundworks estimating and procurement would also be provided. This would then follow through to supporting planning applications with the necessary technical input and engineering strategy.

External engineers would be utilised where necessary to add detail to the proposed strategy for checking and presentation purposes. The engineering strategy would be handed over to the technical team for the detailed design stage.

The role requires the production of accurate value engineered information delivered in line with agreed programmes and budgets.

Skills, knowledge & experience

We are looking for an established predevelopment Engineer who embodies the company values; passionate about the housebuilding industry, they will work in a straightforward way, possessing strong organisational skills with a good commercial and contractual awareness. They will be creative with a keen eye for detail and ability to process technical information. They will be collaborative, with excellent verbal and written communication skills and a strong negotiator with proven experience in gaining consent on complex technical approvals.

The successful candidate will have previous exposure to a similar role within a UK housebuilder and be comfortable using engineering related software.

Key capabilities required for this role include:

• Experience of technical and engineering aspects of house building design.
• An in-depth understanding of Highway & Sewer Standards.
• Construction Design & Management Regulations.
• Substantial experience working within a residential housebuilder or equivalent.
• Experience of leading the engineering strategy and working in a team.

• Adding value to engineering solutions.

• Understanding of changes to regulations and legislation.
• Strong mathematical ability.
• Able to analyse complex data and critically evaluate plans.
• Good decision-making skills.
• Good understanding of budget management.
• Able to direct external consultants.
• A good communicator/listener.
• An awareness of the social and environmental impact of your work.
• Accurate with an eye for detail.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Able to work with a high degree of accuracy.
• A methodical approach to working practices.
• Confident decision maker with pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Able to influence and persuade others.
• A self-starter capable of creating and maintaining momentum in projects.
• Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it.
• Supporting the land team with the due diligence review and delivery of technical and engineering information required for land appraisals and acquisition.
• Establishing the engineering principles and strategy on all sites.

If this sounds like you, please apply now. As the above is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities, for more information including a full job description and person specification.