Principal Civil Engineer

Description:

Do you want to work for an employee-owned company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for its employees?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal engineer with a strong technical background to join our growing UK design team. You’ll lead the design of innovative, safe and sustainable solutions for provision of clean water, vital to meet the ever-growing demands of development, leakage challenges, population growth and climate change. Working across a diverse portfolio of pipeline and schemes from network reinforcement, strategic resource options, growth and leakage, you’ll be able to understand water projects holistically and work in collaboration with other teams (mechanical, process, structural, environmental) for the successful delivery of multi-disciplinary projects.


Responsibilities

You’ll join an innovative and motivated team of engineers, leading the delivery of feasibility, outline and detailed design work, in close partnership with clients and contractors. In this role, you’ll be responsible for:
 

• Providing guidance and technical leadership across our programmes throughout the project lifecycles, from feasibility studies through to detailed design and construction support.
• Leading the delivery of potable water pipelines schemes to budget, programme and quality standards
• Developing engineering solutions to growth challenges, as well as complex trunk main burst repairs, bespoke design solutions for clean water asset repair and maintenance, mains rehabilitation, and development of asset condition assessments in a collaborative approach with the contractor,
• Providing technical assurance during the design phase, ensuring quality of outputs and compliance with standards, specifications, and governance requirements
• Involvement and active management of design risk to deliver constructable design solutions
• Supporting continuous improvement of procedures and processes to drive efficiency and innovation, contributing to the application of our digital engineering initiatives
• Directing and developing a team of design staff, mentoring junior colleagues and supporting their professional development
• Engaging regularly with the Client and stakeholders to build and maintain positive collaborative relationships, providing regular updates on progress and status of work within own area of responsibility, as well as identifying and communicating issues that could risk programme, quality or cost
• Working collaboratively across disciplines to ensure the efficient delivery of projects within your portfolio