Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

The Enabling Infrastructure team is an established team of experienced engineers specialising in the delivery of development led infrastructure projects centred around our Birmingham, London, Bristol and Cardiff offices. As part of our wider growth strategy, we are seeking an experienced Engineer to expand our capacity in the centre of England. The role will nominally be based out of Birmingham, but candidates will be considered in line with our agile / hybrid working policy. The team works on projects across all of our global business areas - Mobility, Places and Resilience. We work in a wide variety of market sectors including strategic housing & residential, commercial & employment, transport hubs and major transport (rail and highways) projects. We are actively developing new client relationships within the ports and logistics sector, and we would welcome applications from candidates with previous experience in these sectors.

We are seeking to locate a career minded Engineer with ambition to progress their career further and who has gained work experience in the design of infrastructure and drainage solutions for development infrastructure projects. We would provide support in achieving Chartered / Incorporated status through an ICE training agreement.

Role Accountabilities:

• Reporting to the Associate Technical Director/ Principal Engineer, you will have a keenness and willingness to learn and develop new engineering skills to support the successful delivery of infrastructure, highways and drainage projects.
• Project duties will include providing engineering design support within the Enabling Infrastructure team, providing technical advice.
• Prepare technical reports, drawings and calculations for development related infrastructure design commissions including surface water, foul water, highways and utilities design to meet the client’s requirements and adoptable standards, taking responsibility for technical output.
• Support the delivery of projects including quality assurance and client feedback and ensuring effective communication of any changes/modifications.
• Work in collaboration with other design disciplines and contractor D&B teams to ensure the integrity of the overall design.
• Work in accordance with our Business Management processes and procedures.
• Assist in achieving wider business goals for positive Safety, Health, Quality, and Sustainability outcomes.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Applicants should have some prior experience of development infrastructure projects, with experience in the design of solutions for development infrastructure projects.
• Previous experience in some or all of the following aspects of development infrastructure design, including surface water, foul water drainage, highways, earthworks, and utilities design.
• Knowledge of SuDS, SfA, DMRB, and Local Authority design standards.
• Experience of preparing initial feasibility and site appraisal studies, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver successful planning applications.
• Experience of infrastructure design preferably in the use of Autodesk Civil3D for infrastructure design and Microdrainage/ Infodrainage for drainage design.
• Aware of design delivery to BIM protocols.
• Be self-motivated with good people and interpersonal skills to influence outcomes.
• Have a BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng or equivalent in Civil Engineering.
• Made positive progress toward achieving Chartered or Incorporated status.

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