Senior Design Engineer

Senior Design Engineer
West Yorkshire
Salary up to £60k

Calibre Search are working alongside a growing regional Civil Engineering and Utilities services company operating throughout the north of England. With Design & Build capabilities, they work with a variety of clients ranging from Local Authorities, Private Developers to Water Companies and due to succession planning, they are looking to add to their West Yorkshire office.

They are looking for a Senior Design Engineer with a background in Civil Engineering to join their integrated team and lead the design of infra and non-infra projects on their Yorkshire Water Framework from outline design through to detailed design, construction and commissioning support.

Your design duties will include management of design schemes at various stages, ensuring the design tasks have been completed; attendance at meetings and checking the work of other team members to ensure accuracy. You will oversee co-ordination of a wide range of discipline inputs; monitoring and protecting our client relationships; planning and programming; commercial management and presenting projects for audit.

As well as maintaining on-going communication with relevant Team Leaders / Senior Managers and clients when required to ensure effective communications on matters relevant to the project, you will contribute to the resolution of technical issues on projects and provide technical guidance to other team members, such as junior engineers, technicians, and apprentices.

As a Chartered or near Chartered Engineer with a relevant institution i.e. ICE, you will have suitable civil design experience, inc. drainage, gained through working on infrastructure projects within the UK water sector. Working in collaboration with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall design and promoting and developing the technical capability of other team members, you will demonstrate innovative and entrepreneurial thinking and behaviour.

In addition to maintaining quality and environmental control procedures in accordance with ISO 9001and ISO 14001, you will create and maintain good relations with clients, design teams and neighbours as well as any other stakeholders and ensure their people work to the company values and respect the public and their surroundings

You will possess knowledge of the UK Water Industry and Sewer Sector Guidance standards for drainage design and have expertise in software design methods such as MicroDrainage, AutoCAD and Civils3D (a knowledge of integration with BIM models would be desirable). You will be technically competent in fundamental hydraulic design principles and able to apply manual calculation methods where software methods are not available.

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For more information about this role, please call Sam Smith at Calibre Search or click apply

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