Civil Design Engineer

Our client has an opening for a Civil Engineer with extensive background in residential developments for their Suffolk office. You will be working a part of nearly 30 offices across the UK, reporting to the Technical Director ensuring targets and goals are achieved from planning to completion.

What’s on offer

• Hybrid working
• Company car scheme
• Death in service
• High-street discounts
• Annual bonus scheme (up to 15%)
• Private medical insurance

The role

• Provide Engineering support and technical guidance for regional site and office-based operations.
• Co-ordinate and manage external consultants to resolve engineering issues to allow planning consents to be issued
• Interact closely with design and planning team to deliver planning consents
• Manage consultants in the preparation of infrastructure, foundation, plot drainage and external level designs
• Monitor and resolve any Building Regulation/CML issues
• Manage and co-ordinate remediation strategies and ensure regulatory approvals are obtained
• Secure necessary technical approval for roads and sewers designs
• Provide all utility drawings of existing, proposed and diversions including obtaining competitive quotations from utility providers. Procurement and co-ordination of off-site service reinforcement, diversions, substations, gas governors plot connections etc and ensure all legal agreements are completed.
• Obtain street lighting designs and procure new postal addresses and agreeing street name plate specifications and locations.
• Produce designs in agreed timescales to ensure regional targets are achieved.
• Ensure all technical approvals/agreements for section 38, 278, 104 and 185 agreements are secured.
• Collate Pre-Construction Information Packs and Information for Health and Safety Plans.
• Understand the Designers responsibilities under the latest CDM regulations.
• Provide Engineering Support in respect of planning applications and land viability purposes.
• Provide support in relation to demolition, site clearance, road and sewer infrastructure works, utilities, external works and other construction related matters on a variety of residential housing developments.
• Assistance in the preparation of Land Appraisal Viabilities
• Satisfactory resolve engineering issues as part of planning application
• Finalise plot floor levels and ensure efficiencies of external level designs.

What you need to succeed

• Commercial Awareness
• Computer literate with an excellent knowledge of AutoCAD, Excel and Word.
• Building Regulations Legislation
• Health and Safety Regulations
• Experience of engineering and development within the housebuilding industry.
• Engineering related qualification with minimum HNC
• Good Negotiation Skills
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver to agreed timescales.