Principal Civil Engineer

Our Water sector tier 1 contractor is seeking Senior/ Principal Civil Engineers to join their Yorkshire or Northumbrian Water design teams on a permanent basis.

As a Principal Engineer you will be responsible for Managing project delivery or technical delivery as appropriate on larger / complex schemes. Supporting and mentoring junior and less experienced staff and to provide design excellence and ensuring delivery of the specified project outcomes on time, within budget and to the client's specifications and that project requirements are fully met.

The position is required to support an expanding Water Utilities workload and will typically involve providing designs for Water and Wastewater, infrastructure, and non-infrastructure projects. This will include design delivery at all stages, from feasibility and optioneering through to detailed designs for construction, and commissioning. This specific role is required primarily to support Northumbrian Water Group/Yorkshire Water, however there will be ample opportunities to work on other projects and frameworks throughout the UK for a variety of clients.

This is a permanent position and will be of a hybrid nature ideally based our of Durham or Brighouse offices 2/3 days a week.

• Implement effective, value for money and innovative design solutions to meet technical and project requirements
• Supervise team members including all engineers, senior engineers, senior technicians and assistant and graduate engineers
• Maintain high technical standards, consistent with the project brief.
• Progress projects through preliminary and detailed design with particular emphasis on client requirements and innovation
• Prepare / check / approve engineering designs, documents, cost estimates, calculations, and oversee drawing production.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety and environmental legislation, particularly the CDM Regulations
• Maintain a strong focused client relationship.
• Assist with contract preparation together with project planning and programming.
• Support in the preparation of bids and delivery of services on other contracts

• Ideally civil engineering degree qualified of similar
• Strong technical background in the design of Water / Wastewater infrastructure and non-infrastructure works.
• Computer literate and conversant with the MS Office suite with a basic knowledge of engineering packages such as AutoCAD.
• Strong written and oral communication and organisational skills and to produce reports in clear concise English.
• Proven ability to lead and work within a team environment with a dedicated approach to meet project deadlines.
• Client focused approach to service delivery Self-motivated with the drive to achieve continuous improvement targets.
• Strong Health and Safety focus

• Salary 55-65k depending on experience
• Car allowance dependant on level
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Company pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Family friendly policies
• A selection of lifestyle benefit options
• Financial wellbeing programme
• Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues.