Description:
Playing a key role in our flagship project at outline status, you’ll lead discipline engineers in wastewater recycling and sludge treatment centres ensuring all designs are fit for purpose and meet current legislation and standards.
Whist leading and coaching a team of less experienced members of the Civil Engineering team, you’ll pass on your best practice of engineering principles and stakeholder management and drive a continuous improvement culture amongst the team to keep pushing innovation for technical excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Engineering leadership: Work closely with the Technical Managers and Senior Design Manager to continually assess project delivery, safety and designs and implement technologically driven improvements where possible to outperform where possible. Lead the civil design delivery for Cambridge Relocation Project.
- Health & Safety: Drive excellence in Health & Safety in design to eliminate risks and keep all concerned safe. Ensure designs comply with civil, water industry and Anglian Water standards and regulations.
- Design planning: Assist with the development of the design resource strategy for the Civil discipline, plan and allocate resources on a best for task basis.
- Collaboration/ stakeholder management: Work effectively as a multi- discipline project team with internal and external stakeholders and take responsibility for activities relating to Civil Engineering to drive project delivery
- People/ team development: Provide clear, visible and consistent leadership where a developing and supportive culture is created for team members to enhance their skill set which in turn will enhance the team’s performance
- Transformation: Lead a culture than promotes the team to try new things and deliberately deliver differently by engaging with internal and external groups
Candidate Specification
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A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours
- A Civil Engineering discipline degree or be able to demonstrate a degree level of knowledge through relevant experience
- Demonstrate knowledge of all relevant standards, regulations and codes of practice
- Demonstrate a level of competence in practical civil design experience within the water / wastewater industry environment.
- Proven record of delivering design projects to program, budget, and quality requirements, and managing competing tensions whilst meeting safety standards
- An experienced leader of people who is comfortable developing team members
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to form long lasting and trusted relationship and gain buy-in where required to drive delivery
- A high level of resilience to overcome setbacks and provide solutions