Senior / Principal Civil Engineers

Aqua Consultants Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Aqua Consultants Ltd in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced senior civil engineer to lead multi-disciplinary projects in water and flood management sectors.

You will mentor teams, manage client relationships, and ensure delivery of high-quality design and construction outputs, while upholding safety and sustainability standards. This role requires Chartered Engineer status, strong leadership, and proficiency with hydraulic modelling tools.

Qualifications

• Degree in Civil Engineering or related field.
• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status with a relevant professional body.
• Proven leadership of multi-disciplinary teams and complex projects.
• Experience with design and delivery frameworks and build projects.
• Proficient in digital tools and collaboration across disciplines.
• Strong communication across partner organisations and stakeholders.
• Understanding of contract and commercial aspects of projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and direction across multi-disciplinary projects.
• Manage a portfolio of programs, allocating tasks and resources.
• Build and maintain client and stakeholder relationships.
• Ensure quality and technical assurance aligned with company systems.
• Oversee line management duties and team development.
• Promote safety, health, quality and sustainability practices.
• Collaborate with Aqua teams to share knowledge.

Skills

Civil engineering

Chartered Engineer

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project delivery

Digital skills

Contract and commercial understanding

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Chartered Engineer status (CEng) or equivalent

ICE/CIWEM/IWO membership

Tools

Civil3D

Causeway Flow

Microdrainage

Job description

Job Description

• A deep understanding of wastewater/water networks and treatment schemes, flood risk management, and drainage schemes.
• Manage a portfolio of multi-disciplinary projects and/or multi-scheme programmes of work.
• Build and retain collaborative relationships with the client, stakeholders and other design disciplines
• Manage quality processes and technical assurance in line with company systems
• Plan, direct and control tasks, people, resources and outputs
• Provide technical leadership and direction, taking a proactive role in developing them to their full potential, leading by example to achieve sector/divisional goals and championing a quality, innovative and entrepreneurial culture.
• Undertake Line Manager duties and pastoral care to team members
• Contributing to the resolution of project issues and providing guidance and support to other team members
• Promote a culture that is proactive on Safety, Health, Quality and Sustainability matters
• Promote a culture of innovation, helping to develop engineering technology and continuous improvement systems
• Performing other duties as required from time to time by your Client Manager or Aqua Senior Leadership Team
• Work with other Aqua teams to foster collaboration, ensuring the collective knowledge and experience is shared across all

Qualifications

• Degree in Civil Engineering or other directly related degree
• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status and membership of a professional institution such as ICE, CIWEM, IWO
• A technical leader, able to provide direction support and motivate a diverse team
• Experience of working on complex design and delivery frameworks and / or de-sign and build projects
• Is digitally curious and/or proficient
• Able to communicate and work effectively with people from other partner organisations, backgrounds and disciplines, utilising their knowledge and experience to best effect
• working knowledge of managing a project and programme with contract and commercial understanding

Desirable Skills/Attributes

• Hydraulic modelling – preferably Causeway Flow or Microdrainage.
• Competence in the use of Civil3D.

Additional Information

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