Principal Civil Engineer
RSK Group
- Chester Swansea
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Undertake the role of Design Manager to co-ordinate packages of work within budget and to programme to meet the Client’s requirements
- Principal Designer under CDM15
- Ensure our Quality Assurance process is undertaken for technical review of deliverables
- Understand project scope and identify contractual change
- Understand the customer’s basic and performance needs
- Lead multi-disciplinary project teams to undertake feasibility assessments, optioneering, outline and detailed design, liaising with internal teams such as ecology, geotechnical engineering for input into design
- Provide technical advice to engineers and graduate engineers
- Balance the priorities of multiple projects
- Manage and coordinate resources across a multi-disciplinary project team
- Assess the technical risk of projects
- Provide clear and concise deliverables appropriate for the intended audience
- Sign off deliverables as Technical Authority where competent to do so (for small projects for example overseeing a more junior Design/ Engineering Manager)
- Identify and cooperate with project stakeholders (external and internal) Keep up to date with national and industry guidance
- Professional Qualification (CEng or C.WEM)
- Degree in Civil Engineering, Water & Environmental Management or a related subject
- Good grades at A-Levels in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) subjects and/or Geography
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team of internal professionals, and third-party asset owners, stakeholders, technical officers and contractors
- Motivated to work on flood and coastal risk management and water projects - experience in at least one of these fields is required
- Experience of working on projects at appraisal, outline design, detailed design and constructions stages
- Manage budget and programme control for engineering deliverables
- Ability to work under time pressure and balance multiple priorities
- Ability to manage and co-ordinate resources and processes
- Ability to design, plan and organise tasks
- Collaborative behaviours that help to build strong effective teams
- Ability to liaise with internal and external clients to develop relationships across the business
- Ability to effectively present technical solutions to a wide range of audiences in a variety of means
- Proactive and methodical approach to problem solving as an individual and as part of a team with a desire to find a solution
- Excellent attention to detail
- A high level of computer literacy
- Experience of flood and coastal risk management and water projects
- Experience of producing flood risk assessments
- Experience of undertaking structural inspections for bridges, floodwalls and gauging weirs
- Managing multi-disciplinary projects
- Knowledge of AutoCad and GIS
- Be driven to support and mentor others to improve their technical skills
- Be driven to advance your career