Principal Engineer - #1761765

The Company

A multi-disciplinary Consultancy providing a wide range of Asset Management, Engineering and Commercial services to clients across the water, energy and environment sectors, across the UK.

The business is established on a solid foundation of diversity – diversity of skills, cultures, personalities, perspectives and experiences. It is this diversity that unifies the team and enables it to offer holistic and innovative solutions to its’ clients most pressing needs.

The Position

Working as a Principal Civil Engineer primarily with clients in the regulated water sector, you will undertake technical design and analysis for both new build and existing steel, reinforced above and below ground concrete civil structures, using appropriate structural analysis and design packages, following local and national guidance.

In addition, you will implement high levels of quality, and consider sustainability and safety, at all stages of the design and asset lifecycle and successfully manage time and budgets to project milestones and programmes.

The business is growing considerably and there will be ample opportunities to use your leadership and client facing skills whilst guiding more junior colleagues and identifying new business opportunities.

The Candidate

As a potentially suitable candidate for the Principal Civil Engineer position, you should ideally be degree educated to MSc level, have chartership status and have experience in the UK infrastructure sector.

In addition to the above you should have knowledge of structural engineering codes – Eurocodes / BSI etc and experience of RC design and detailing, preferably including water retaining structures, soil retaining structures, foundation design.

Further experience on your CV should preferably include;

• Experience of steelwork design.
• Conceptual understanding of geotechnics and soil-structure interactions.
• Ability to prepare and review structural designs.
• Knowledge of computational analysis techniques and software, knowledge of BIM is an advantage.
• Experience of construction techniques is an advantage.
• Commitment to sustainability: re-use of existing structures and materials; design for low carbon construction, etc.

Salary and Benefits

As the successful candidate, along with a competitive salary and discretionary bonus, you will receive 24 days annual leave plus Bank holidays and the option to purchase additional leave. There is a pension scheme, life assurance scheme and a Company mobile phone and laptop will be provided. You will also have the option to take part in an electric car scheme.