Senior / Principal Civil Engineer

Salary: £54,000 – £66,000 per year

Our sister company, Waldeck, are an award-winning consultancy with over 25 years’ experience. We work collaboratively with clients to deliver sustainable and innovative solutions across the built environment. In 2018 Waldeck was acquired by leading recruitment firm, Morson Group. As part of the Morson Group family we have the stability and financial backing of a large organisation, with the luxury of operating and collaborating with clients as a smaller, more intimate consultancy.

We are recruiting for an experienced Senior / Principal Civil Engineer to work within our multi-discipline team across our network of offices. Within this role you will be responsible for co-ordinating work with the rest of the team and working on a variety of exciting new projects varying in size. As part of this role you will act as a mentor to junior team members, providing advice and guidance utilising your previous project knowledge.

Within this role your responsibilities will include:

• Managing project delivery and championing quality across the civil engineering team.
• Act as Project Manager on large and medium sized/risk projects and assist with the management of civil engineering elements for a particular programme of work. 
• The management of technical risks and opportunities for a defined project scope
• Assistance in the overall co-ordination and formalisation of Client’s requests and requirements related to design.
• Allocate team members to tasks and manage day-to-day workloads for staff within your team and source support from other teams to mobilise the full strengths of Waldeck for the benefit of the project and the Client
• Proactively oversee the delivery of projects providing mentoring and guidance on methods of delivery to achieve time and budget targets and ways to manage risks and improve client satisfaction.
• Enabling the relationship with the other stakeholders and suppliers.
• Identify opportunities to increase services provided on each project.
• Provide technical guidance and training to junior staff and to assist, where practicable, in the mentoring and development of staff.
• Participate in the preparation/presentation of proposals/bids as required including estimating timescales and costs for proposed works.

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Chartered Engineer with 5-10 years’ civil engineering experience
• Excellent knowledge of earthworks, highways and drainage design principles
• Good understanding of Sustainable Drainage Systems
• Good understanding of section agreements, legislative requirements and design standards
• Working knowledge of leading industry software packages eg. MicroDrainage, Civil 3D, Microstation (further training will be given to fill any gaps)
• Experience in a consultancy environment working on multi-discipline projects
• A confident team leader and mentor
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Benefits include:

26 days annual leave across all levels

Funded team socials and events

Exciting portfolio of projects across the UK

Company funded professional memberships

Employee Assistance Plan

Cycle to Work scheme

High street discount scheme

Contributory Pension

Company sick pay scheme

Mental Health Wellbeing app

Life assurance scheme

Specsavers discount scheme