Civil Engineer – Highways & Drainage
Location: Edinburgh
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Working Pattern: Hybrid - 3 days office / 2 days home
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience
About the Role
Clarkson Owens Recruitment is working with a client who is looking for an experienced Civil Engineer specialising in Highways and Drainage to join their team in Edinburgh.
The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering high-quality drainage and highway designs across a range of projects, ensuring designs are innovative, sustainable, cost-effective and meet client requirements.
This is a great opportunity for a Civil Engineer with a strong design background who is looking to develop their career within a collaborative engineering environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Produce highways and drainage designs across a variety of projects.
- Provide technical expertise and specialist advice to colleagues and clients.
- Undertake Design Risk Assessments and contribute to project hazard workshops.
- Coordinate with other design disciplines to ensure integrated project solutions.
- Assist with civil engineering tendering, including reviewing tenders and developing design strategies.
- Identify project risks and opportunities and develop appropriate mitigation measures.
- Assist with the procurement and coordination of specialist subcontractors and suppliers.
- Prepare and coordinate tender deliverables.
- Liaise with clients and design teams throughout projects.
- Attend design team, client and site meetings as required.
- Maintain clear and proactive communication with project stakeholders.
- Share technical knowledge and support the development of other team members.
- Keep technical knowledge and professional development up to date.
- Contribute to business development and maintaining strong client relationships.
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
- A degree or higher-level qualification in Civil Engineering.
- Chartered status or be actively working towards chartership.
- A minimum of 3 years' experience working on projects involving highways and/or drainage design.
- Experience working within a civil engineering design environment, ideally within a consultancy.
- Experience using Civil 3D (or similar) for highways and earthworks design.
- Experience using InfoDrainage (or similar) for drainage design.
- Experience contributing to tenders, including risk identification and mitigation.
- Strong technical, written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- The ability to work collaboratively and build strong relationships with clients and colleagues.
- Confidence in presenting technical ideas and solutions.
- The ability to represent the business professionally during site visits and surveys.
Experience working on infrastructure projects, particularly within the rail or power sectors, would be advantageous.
A current clean driving licence and willingness to travel to sites across the UK is desirable. Occasional site visits may involve early starts, late finishes or other unsociable hours.
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