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Assistant Civil Engineer - Infrastructure
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Assistant Civil Engineer - Infrastructure
The Opportunity
Are you passionate about infrastructure design that genuinely adds social value and creatively responds to the needs of people, places, and the environment? Then join Stantec’s industry-leading Civil Infrastructure team in Ashford!
This is a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Civil Engineer to join a thriving, high-performing team with a proven track record of delivering innovative projects across the South-East and beyond. Our Ashford team plays a crucial role in regional delivery and offers hybrid and flexible working options to promote a work-life balance tailored to your needs.
You’ll have the chance to work on a diverse range of projects, contributing to significant developments across the region—or further. Beyond leading independent initiatives, you’ll collaborate closely with building, environmental, and transport colleagues to deliver holistic solutions.
As an Assistant Civil Engineer, you’ll join a close-knit team, with opportunities to lead and mentor junior engineers and technicians. You’ll take ownership of:
- Leading technical project delivery and approval
- Reviewing and shaping the work of your team
- Ensuring high-quality design outcomes on time and within budget
Working hand-in-hand with clients, you’ll help influence the development of infrastructure schemes in the region. As Stantec grows, you’ll find abundant opportunities for progression and career development within our firm.
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About You
You’ll need:
- An MEng/BEng degree in civil engineering, with Chartered status (or working towards it)
- A tactical, results-focused mindset, adept at balancing cross-functional coordination with an emphasis on quality
- Strong communicative skills to engage internal and external stakeholders (e.g., utility companies, drainage authorities, highway authorities)
Your expertise should ideally align with:
- Highway and drainage infrastructure design to deliver multi-disciplinary projects across their full lifecycle (concept → detailed design → delivery)
- Proven success in stakeholder collaboration (mapping core client needs through technical excellence)
- Experience mentoring junior team members and prioritising workload effectively
Additional strengths include proficiency with:
- Civils 3D, MicroDrainage
- Utility coordination tools/technologies
Crucially, you’ll bring a passion for creating quality infrastructure solutions and experience navigating processes with local authorities and regulators.
Why Join Us?
Stantec’s friendly, collaborative culture is just one of many reasons to be excited about joining us. Here’s what we offer:
- A competitive salary
- Agile and flexible working models
- Industry-leading training
- Challenging, impactful projects
- A supportive, progressive company with global ambitions
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About Stantec
Stantec is a unified community of 34,000+ employees across 6 continents, operating in 450+ locations. For over 150 years, we’ve partnered with UK clients and communities, engineering sustainable, healthy, and prosperous environments.
Our approach checks these three boxes:
✔ Effective planning & design with plan-to-build clarity ✔ Excellent technical and market insights to deliver outcomes ✔ Accountability to today’s challenges and a commitment to tomorrow’s needs—clean growth, economic transformation, and community resilience.
We uphold equal opportunity by law for all applicants and employees, prohibiting discrimination on race, religion, gender, disability, or any characteristic outlined by the Equality Act 2010.
Diversity matters: We champion an inclusive work environment, investing in talent to create world-class results.
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