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Location: Pickering / North Yorkshire Moors
Salary: up to £33,854 + 27% pension + excellent benefits
Looking for a Different Kind of Civil Engineering Career?
Perhaps you're currently working in consultancy and want to spend less time behind a desk and more time seeing projects come to life.
Maybe you're working for a contractor and are ready to trade long hours, site pressures, and relentless deadlines for a healthier work-life balance.
Or perhaps you're already client-side and looking for more variety, ownership, and the opportunity to work on projects that make a genuine difference.
If that sounds familiar, this could be exactly what you're looking for.
About the Role
Our client, the UK's largest land manager, is looking for a Civil Engineer to help manage and deliver infrastructure projects across some of the country's most important forests and landscapes.
Why This Role?
This isn't a traditional consultancy or contractor role.
- You'll take ownership of projects from concept through to completion, helping maintain and improve a diverse portfolio of civil engineering assets.
- One project might involve refurbishing a reservoir, another upgrading forest roads, delivering visitor facilities, improving car parks, maintaining bridges, or supporting the development of nationally recognized cycling and recreation trails.
- No two days are the same.
- You'll split your time between site visits, contractor engagement, design reviews, project planning, and stakeholder management.
- Rather than focusing on a single asset type or project sector, you'll gain exposure to a broad range of engineering challenges while helping ensure the public infrastructure is safe, sustainable, and fit for future generations.
- It's a role that offers genuine autonomy, variety, and the chance to see the direct impact of your work on the environment and the communities that use it.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Managing the delivery of civil engineering and infrastructure projects across the forest estate
- Overseeing the maintenance and improvement of assets including roads, bridges, reservoirs, car parks, visitor facilities, and recreational infrastructure
- Managing contractors and ensuring works are delivered safely, efficiently, and to specification
- Undertaking inspections and condition assessments of civil engineering assets
- Preparing and reviewing specifications, designs, and technical documentation
- Supporting procurement, contract management, and project delivery activities
- Working closely with colleagues, consultants, and external stakeholders
- Promoting sustainable and low-carbon engineering solutions
What We're Looking For
We're interested in hearing from engineers with a few years' industry experience who are looking to broaden their project exposure and take ownership of their work. You could come from a consultancy, contractor, local authority, or client-side background. Ideally, you'll have:
- HNC, HND, Degree, or equivalent qualification in Civil Engineering
- Experience delivering civil engineering or infrastructure projects
- Knowledge of contractor management and contract administration
- Understanding of CDM regulations and construction health and safety requirements
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- A practical, proactive approach to problem solving
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What's in it for You?
Alongside the opportunity to work on projects that support and protect the UK's forests and green spaces, Forestry England offers benefits rarely matched elsewhere in the construction sector:
- Salary up to £33,854
- Potential additional allowance of up to £5,000
- 37-hour working week
- Hybrid working and genuine work-life balance
- 27% employer pension contribution
- 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days with service, plus public holidays
- Excellent wellbeing support and employee benefits package
- The opportunity to work on a hugely varied asset portfolio in unique locations across the UK
- Build infrastructure that lasts. Protect landscapes that matter. Enjoy a better balance while doing it.
What You Need to Do Now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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