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.