At a Glance
- Tasks: Support residential projects from planning to delivery, ensuring top-notch engineering input.
- Company: Join Aldwych Consulting, a leading residential developer in Norwich.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, hybrid working, and great benefits like healthcare and pension.
- Other info: Opportunities for career growth and internal movement within the company.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a supportive team while shaping exciting developments.
- Qualifications: HNC/HND in engineering and 5+ years' experience preferred.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 60000 £ per year.
Civil Engineer - Developer in Norwich (NR1) | ALDWYCH CONSULTING LTD
Location: Norwich
Salary: Up to £75,000 + benefits
Working pattern: Hybrid
This is an opportunity to join a major residential developer in a client-side Engineering role, where your focus is on technical oversight, coordination and design management - not fee chasing or timesheets. You'll join a supportive Technical team of 4-5 engineers, working across a strong, long-term development pipeline with genuine scope to grow and move internally. This role has strong involvement at pre-planning and planning stage, working closely with land, planning and technical teams to shape schemes from the outset. Experience or working knowledge of engineering input at pre-planning and planning stage is therefore important.
Why this role stands out:
- Client-side engineering role within a large residential developer
- Strong, close-knit technical team with experienced support
- Exposure to more complex and higher-value developments
- Clear internal progression and opportunity to move across divisions
- Hybrid working and long-term workload security
This role suits someone who wants broader influence, better balance, and a long-term career path on the developer side.
What you'll be doing:
- Supporting schemes from pre-planning and planning stage through to delivery
- Providing engineering input into site feasibility, constraints and early design strategy
- Overseeing infrastructure and groundworks design across residential developments
- Managing external engineering consultants covering: foundations, roads and drainage, sewers and adoption works
- Coordinating Section 38, 104 and 278 agreements, including bond closures
- Procuring service records and managing enquiries and payments for new infrastructure
- Working with structural specialists on superstructure-related elements
- Carrying out value engineering and peer review of consultant designs
- Liaising with Technical, Planning and Building Control teams to support discharge of planning conditions
What you'll need:
- HNC / HND or higher qualification in an engineering-related discipline
- Around 5+ years' post-qualification experience (desirable)
- Background in civil or structural engineering, from consultancy or a residential developer
- Experience or good working knowledge of pre-planning and planning stage engineering input
- Confidence dealing with highways authorities, utilities and water companies
- Strong coordination and communication skills
- Experience using Autodesk tools: PDS or MicroDrainage experience helpful, not essential
What's on offer:
- Competitive salary
- Plus Car allowance, pension, healthcare and additional benefits
- Hybrid working
- A supportive, experienced technical team
- Strong development pipeline offering long-term stability
- Clear opportunities to progress or move into other business divisions
Could this be one for you? Why not give Vekshana a call to discuss further. Aldwych Consulting values diversity and promotes equality. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
Civil Engineer - Developer employer: Aldwych Consulting Ltd
Join an established M&E contractor in Hertfordshire, where you will have the opportunity to take ownership of projects and make impactful commercial decisions. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, this company offers genuine flexibility in role levels, direct access to decision-makers, and a supportive work culture that values diversity and equality. Enjoy a competitive salary of up to £75,000 and the chance to accelerate your career in a dynamic environment with exposure to a variety of projects across London and the South East.
