🚧 Development Engineer – Residential Regeneration
📍 South East / Oxfordshire/Buckinghamshire region
🏗️ Mixed-Use & Complex Residential Schemes
A leading residential developer known for delivering high-quality, design-led and sustainable communities is looking to appoint a Development Engineer to support the delivery of complex housing and RC-frame apartment schemes.
This business specialises in transforming challenging brownfield and regeneration sites into vibrant, long-term communities. Projects range from traditional housing through to high-rise RC-frame developments and mixed-use regeneration schemes.
The Role
Reporting to the Lead Engineer / Head of Engineering, you’ll manage engineering and infrastructure elements from land feasibility through to construction.
Key responsibilities include:
• Managing S38, S278 and Minor Works highway approvals
• Leading S104 drainage adoptions and SuDS coordination
• Liaising with LLFAs, water companies and highway authorities
• Coordinating RC-frame structural detailing
• Managing site investigations, topo surveys & utilities strategies
• Supporting levels strategies, remediation and ground engineering
• Engineering budgeting, viability input & cost tracking
• Chairing multi-disciplinary design meetings
You’ll play a key role in ensuring schemes are buildable, compliant, cost-effective and technically robust.
What We’re Looking For
• Degree qualified in Civil Engineering (or similar)
• Residential development / housebuilding / consultancy background
• Strong knowledge of UK planning & adoption processes
• Confident with AutoCAD & Microsoft Office
• Understanding of RC-frame principles
• Strong communicator with a proactive, solutions-led mindset
What’s On Offer
• 25 days annual leave (rising to 33 with service)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension & Life Assurance
• Volunteer day & lifestyle benefits
• Clear progression within a high-performing engineering team
This is an opportunity to join a developer that takes real pride in design quality, detail and long-term placemaking — working on some of the most complex and rewarding schemes in the region.
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