Civil Engineer

We have a fantastic opportunity for a junior Civil Engineer to join a well-established design consultancy in Oxfordshire office. Our client is a structural and civil engineering consultancy with an established reputation for providing high quality engineering services.

You will find excellent career development and the opportunity to own your own projects and clients and be integral to the growth plans of the consultancy. Their expertise lies within infrastructure, environment, hydrology and transport planning services, all of which combine to maximise the development potential.

What’s on offer

• Option to buy additional holiday or sell holiday
• Bonus scheme
• Clear Progression and Support
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Hybrid working

The role

• Working within a team to produce designs and drawings for construction projects and deliver technical reports for master planning and to support planning applications.
• The ability to produce masterplans, site appraisals, write reports to support planning applications, design calculations and construction drawings.
• Have a knowledge of and ability to deliver highway design, highway drainage principles (layout, parameters, etc.), surface water and foul drainage designs.
• Experience in the use of Windes drainage software and PDS or Civils 3D modelling.
• Sound knowledge of the relevant design codes such as DMRB, Local Authority Highway and Water Authority Design Guides and be well versed in the preparation of drawings for S38 and S278 Highway Agreements as well as S106 Drainage Agreements.
• You will contribute to the delivery of concept studies and strategies with hands on design, leading to planning applications or construction drawing issue.

What you need to succeed

• 1+ years’ experience in UK design consultancy
• Experience in producing Flood Risk assessments and surface water drainage strategies.
• You will be able to use and manipulate software such as GIS, AutoCAD or Site3D.
• Sound understanding and interpretation of flood risk policy and legislation
• Excellent communication skills with a positive working attitude.
• Understanding hydrology estimation (e.g. FEH)
• Experience with modelling packages including Flood Modeller, TuFLOW, Microdrainage or similar.