This consultancy has just opened a vacancy for a Senior Civil Engineer. This role requires the candidate to take control and build a sustainable team at their Leeds office, supported initially by the team at the head office we see this appointment as a key milestone in the growth of the company.
What’s on offer:
- Flexible holiday allowance
- Company Pension scheme
- Hybrid working
- Interesting and challenging projects
- Autonomy to lead your own projects
- Excellent career progression potential
The role:
- Report to Senior Management
- Act as ‘Supervisor’ for projects across all organisations.
- Identify resource and outsource projects where required
- Expand client portfolio
- Identifying business risk and making informed choices where appropriate or advising others as required
- Providing teams with defined structures and clear direction, enabling individuals to have a strong sense of ownership and personal responsibility for the delivery of objectives and outcomes
- Ability to communicate to clients
- Business development activities and ability to cross sell our services. Generating new revenue streams and introducing new clients to the business, building networks locally, regionally and nationally
- Manage risk to minimise the risk of litigation
- Lead PDRs
- People management
- QMS standards compliance – establish and enforce rigorous quality control and assurance processes to maintain the highest technical standards
- Ensure all engineering designs meet safety environmental and sustainability requirements including BREEAM
- Undertake interviews for new team members
- Generate new ideas and initiatives – obtaining buy in from the workforce driving the improvements required
- Undertake assigned management tasks and identify where other team members can contribute
- Embed new behaviours and manage change
- Seek feedback both internally and externally
- Review feedback from team and act on any outcomes both positive and negative
- Challenge senior management on strategic goals and implementing new ideas to drive change and success
- Understand appointment and warranty documentation
- Understand your and PWA’s duties under CDM
What you need to succeed:
- Degree (in relevant subject) +7 years
- A proven record of success in senior level general or commercial management, preferably in a related industry.
- Senior level experience of management of people and resources.
- A wide knowledge of the industry.
- An understanding of financial management and wider management principles and techniques.
- Presentational skills with an appreciation of the demands of conflicting interests and of meeting statutory requirements.
- A very high level of commercial awareness.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.