Graduate Civil Engineer

Graduate Civil Engineer

Location:

Bedford Salary: £28,000 - £32,000 Looking to start your career in civil engineering consultancy?

Join an established practice where you can develop your design skills across a varied portfolio of development infrastructure projects, with support from experienced engineers. Woods Hardwick is looking to recruit a Graduate Civil Engineer to join its Bedford team. You will work on residential and non-residential developments, supporting the design and delivery of infrastructure for private developers, national house builders and larger master planning schemes.

The Role Working alongside experienced engineers, you will develop your technical skills across a range of civil engineering projects, including:
Drainage network design and modelling using Flow. Road design and ground modelling using PDS. Preparing planning submission packages for outline, detailed and full applications. Supporting technical submissions for S38, S278 and S104 approvals. Producing groundworks packages for tender and construction. Undertaking private plot civil engineering design. About You A degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline. An interest in developing a career in development infrastructure design.

Good communication, organisation and problem-solving skills. An understanding of civil engineering design principles. Exposure to drainage design, road design or relevant software would be beneficial, but is not essential. An awareness of planning processes and Flood Risk Assessments would be advantageous. Previous consultancy experience is not essential. Woods Hardwick is prepared to provide training and mentoring to help you develop your technical capability and progress professionally.

The benefits include an Employee Ownership Trust profit share, flexible working, pension, life assurance, CPD days, birthday leave and a Cycle2

Work scheme. Additional healthcare and travel insurance are available after three years' service. If this Graduate Civil Engineer role feels close but not quite perfect, please do not be put off from applying. I specialise in Civil Engineering recruitment and may also be able to help with other suitable roles that are not currently advertised. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

Penguin Recruitment is operating as a Recruitment Agency in respect of this position. For further information, please contact Andy Hopkins, with over 30 years' recruitment experience.