Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Buro Happold; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure consultancy in Edinburgh is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join their team. This role involves delivering multidisciplinary projects, managing technical staff, and contributing to innovative infrastructure designs. The ideal candidate has a strong background in infrastructure design, leadership experience, and proficiency in various design tools. The position offers hybrid working arrangements and a range of employee benefits.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private Medical Health

Company Pension Scheme

Income Protection

Flexible Benefits

Qualifications

• Strong technical background in infrastructure design with experience in Highways, Utilities or Sustainable Drainage.
• Proven track record of leading teams in international multidisciplinary project delivery.
• Willingness to travel and lead continuous quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of multidisciplinary projects and review civil infrastructure design.
• Prepare and review technical reports, specifications and schedules.
• Be part of the work winning team to secure project pipeline.

Skills

Infrastructure design

Leadership in technical specialism

Communication and presentation

Team management

Education

Membership of a relevant professional institution

Tools

AutoCAD

Civils 3D

MicroDrainage

Job description

Overview

Are you a Civil Infrastructure Engineer looking to grow your technical and operational expertise across the world? Buro Happold is looking to recruit a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our Infrastructure Group in our Edinburgh office.

Working as part of the UK Infrastructure Group you will provide solutions to local infrastructure and utility needs, through to planning entire cities overseas.

This role will have responsibility for delivering technical design on a diverse range of multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects in the UK and also across the world, from city-scale masterplanning through to campus and building scale development infrastructure.

From helping shape entire cities to tackling the challenge of climate action, a career at Buro Happold presents the chance to make a difference. With a world class reputation, our work and our people have delivered positive change to clients, the environment, and communities alike. If you want to be part of something bigger, this is your chance.

Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it'll be anything but ordinary.

Your next role

Be part of an exceptional team that embraces technically demanding projects and challenges. Be at the forefront of changes in the industry such as reducing embodied carbon and modern methods of infrastructure design.

Key Duties

• Managing the delivery of multidisciplinary projects, balancing demands and priorities, whilst reviewing civil infrastructure design, from project proposition through to construction. Plan project resources and finances and monitor job financial performance.
• The management of technical staff, with responsibility for planning team workload, as well as assisting and mentoring staff where needed, and developing more junior team members.
• Preparing and reviewing technical reports, specification and schedules.
• Applying customer focus you will be part of the work winning team securing the groups project pipeline.

Your Skills and Experience

• Strong technical background in infrastructure design, with a demonstrable track record of leading a technical specialism in a core infrastructure discipline (Highways, Utilities or Sustainable Drainage).
• Experience of successful international multidisciplinary project delivery; demonstrating both the ability to manage and motivate the team, as well as excellent communication and presentation skills.
• A willingness to travel, and desire to lead continuous quality improvement in our work.
• Experience in AutoCAD, Civils 3D and MicroDrainage.
• A Member of a relevant professional institution.

What we offer

• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, exclusive of Bank Holidays.
• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Private Medical Health.
• Company Pension Scheme.
• Life Assurance.
• Income Protection.
• Flexible Benefits - including Cycle scheme, Dental insurance, Optical Cover, Travel insurance and Corporate discounts.
• Early leaving at the end of the month - Buro Happold actively encourages its employees to finish at 3pm on the last Friday of each month (depending on business demands). These hours can equate to an additional 4 days leave per annum.

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other's differences is key; we want employees to feel they don't have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact [e-mail] so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

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