Civil Engineer - Design

Our client is currently looking to recruit Design Engineers to work on the Suffolk Highways contract in Ipswich. They have multiple design engineer opportunities within their team.

As a Design Engineer you will be part of our Design team who are responsible for producing design solutions to maintain and improve highway infrastructure in Suffolk.

As a Design Engineer your duties & responsibilities will be:

• Produce design packages, reports and other deliverables to achieve project outcomes;
• Organise and undertake site visits and surveys
• Deliver successful projects to agreed time and cost expectations whilst ensuring work is undertaken in compliance with internal quality standards and processes;
• Ensure work is undertaken in compliance with Health & Safety and Environmental legislation
• Resource planning and co-ordination of multi disciplinary teams, including sub consultants;
• Staff and people management including training and development and staff performance reviews;
• Working collaboratively with customers to understand and develop project objectives and deliverables;
• Managing, building and developing customer relationships.

Skills & Knowledge Requirements

• Incorporated Engineer or highly experienced engineer working towards IEng / CEng;
• Design and construction experience in the highways/Drainage/Structures sector
• A commercial awareness in the delivery of projects
• Awareness / experience of Local Highway Authority standards
• Evidence of developing assistant engineers, graduates and technicians
• Working knowledge of programming tools such as ASTA
• Evidence of managing Health & Safety & Environment in design and construction
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD and other design software including for drainage, alignment and traffic signs desirable.
• Computer literate particularly with packages such as Microsoft Excel and Word
• UK/EEC driving licence