Senior Engineer (River and Coastal Resilience) in Newcastle upon Tyne

Are you looking for your next career step? Do you want the opportunity to work on a broad range of fluvial and coastal flood risk management projects, utilising your technical skills and experience to help support our clients with the development of their projects? This role will provide you with this opportunity whilst working within a market leading climate resilience team.

Job Role

We require an enthusiastic, optimistic, conscientious and talented senior engineer with excellent communication skills and technical ability. The candidate will need to be an efficient worker, enjoy the opportunities of a growth‑orientated environment and must be able to work in a team and independently. The role will require close working with members of the various climate resilience teams across the UK and in Europe, as well as with staff across other Business Lines.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate Health, Safety, Wellbeing and Integrity throughout all your actions, and promote sustainable approaches.
• Have experience of developing successful river engineering and/or coastal projects; have a good understanding of hydraulics, geotechnics, structures and materials.
• Implement projects using digital engineering/3D design and applying BIM.
• Be able to plan your own time, be organised and meet deadlines.
• Work on own initiative and also as part of a team.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Have experience of preparing technical project reports including feasibility studies, option appraisal reports and business cases.
• Have experience of preparing detailed designs and Works Information packages for river and/or coastal structures.
• Check the work of others.
• Have experience of leading design teams.
• Have site experience as Contractor or Designer.
• Be familiar with design and construction contracts and construction processes.
• Manage and direct more junior staff and coach junior staff in technical matters.
• Have the ability to work effectively and be persuasive in a multi‑functional project team.
• Participate in developing a network for business development and provide technical inputs in bids as required.

Recent Projects

• Southsea coastal scheme – we are the lead designer for the prestigious, 4.5km‑long Southsea coastal defence scheme in Portsmouth worth more than £160 million. The scheme is the UK’s largest Local Authority‑led coastal defence scheme and is being delivered as part of an integrated delivery team between Haskoning, Volker Stevin Boskalis Westminster (as lead contractor) and Coastal Partners (as client). New amenity, landscape and public realm features are included to deliver a once‑in‑a‑generation project that brings multiple benefits above and beyond a standard coastal defence scheme.
• Holme Sluice fish pass – Holme Sluice spans the full width of the River Trent to the south of Nottingham and was built in the 1950s as part of a large scale flood defence scheme. It is a major Environment Agency operational structure that helps to protect Nottingham from flooding and controls river levels upstream. It is the largest barrier to the natural migration of fish in the Midlands. We are delivering the detailed design and are providing construction support for the biggest fish pass in the country which is currently being delivered in collaboration with the Environment Agency.
• Bacton to Walcott sand scaping scheme – We supported the Bacton Gas Terminal operators and North Norfolk District Council in developing the detailed design of coast protection measures for the terminal and providing additional benefits to the downdrift village communities of Bacton, Walcott and Ostend. We developed the preferred Sandscaping scheme through to detailed design, using an iterative design process to help the client group to make an informed decision about the shape, volume and sediment size of the scheme.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s (essential) and Master’s degree (desirable) in Civil Engineering or equivalent.
• Chartered or nearly Chartered Civil Engineer (CEng).
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience of technical delivery of fluvial and/or coastal flood defence schemes (or equivalent).

Benefits

Flexible working models to ensure a balance of family and working life, including part‑time options.