Finlay Jude Associates Ltd
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Job Title: Senior Civil Design Engineer
FJA are recruiting on behalf of a leading service provider in the water sector for an experienced Senior Civil Design Engineer to strengthen their engineering team at their Peterborough office, with hybrid working available.
Benefits
- A competitive salary
- Hybrid Working (job needs dependent)
- Car/car allowance (job needs dependent)
- 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
- Contribution Pension Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Health Insurance
- Private Medical Insurance
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Discounts and Savings Hub
- Kids Pass and additional employee benefits
Senior Civil Design Engineer Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and civil engineering expertise across a portfolio of water and wastewater projects.
- Review and approve civil design deliverables produced by other engineers, ensuring compliance with established procedures, standards, and best practices.
- Support multi-disciplinary project teams by delivering innovative, cost-effective, and technically robust engineering solutions.
- Participate in Construction Design Management (CDM) and commissioning strategy meetings, contributing technical expertise throughout the project lifecycle.
- Review and ensure all design-related CDM deliverables are completed in accordance with project and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain awareness of technical developments and share knowledge, best practice, and lessons learned across the civil engineering team.
- Ensure compliance with Minimum Asset Standards while constructively challenging existing approaches to drive continuous improvement.
- Work collaboratively across Alliance programmes to establish and implement common technical standards, procedures, and engineering practices.
- Support the adoption of digital engineering technologies, including the development of fully attributed 3D models.
- Provide technical mentoring, coaching, and support to junior and less experienced engineers.
- Develop technical design alerts and learning initiatives to promote continual improvement and engineering excellence.
- Ensure designs are delivered on time, within budget, and in line with current legislation, standards, and client requirements.
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Senior Civil Design Engineer Requirements
- Degree qualified in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- Chartered Engineer status, or actively working towards Chartership.
- Strong technical expertise in reinforced concrete structures, steel-framed buildings, buried pipework, and site infrastructure design.
- Experience working on large-scale infrastructure, utilities, water, wastewater, or capital delivery projects.
- Strong understanding of CDM regulations and design responsibilities.
- Excellent leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to effectively review, coordinate, and guide technical design activities.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams.
- Passion for health & safety, engineering excellence, and innovative design solutions.
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Desirable
- Experience working within the water and wastewater sector.
- Knowledge and experience of digital engineering and BIM methodologies.
- Experience working within alliance, framework, or collaborative delivery environments.
- Knowledge of sustainable design principles and low-carbon engineering solutions.
If you are looking for a fantastic Senior Civil Design Engineer opportunity and want to work on major infrastructure projects as part of one of the UK’s largest water sector investment programmes, then click on the ‘Apply Now‘ button.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are not always able to respond to every applicant. If you have not heard back from us within 14 days, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed solely on their merits, qualifications, and ability to perform the duties of the role.
Finlay Jude Associates Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers.
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