Assistant Civil Engineer; Development

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at WSP in the UK

Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

A Little More About Your Role…

• Contributing to concept studies/strategies/drawing packages, leading to planning applications, technical approval submissions and construction issue.
• Contributing to all types of Development projects across all sectors and clients.
• Being active on several varied projects at any given time.
• You will be supported by the Cardiff team to develop your technical capabilities and support your career progression.
• Involvement in client engagement, stakeholder management, design team liaison (both internal and with other external).
• Being responsible for ensuring your tasks are delivered to budget, programme, technical standards and legal requirements.

Our team works on some of the most prestigious developments in the UK, and you will be helping deliver projects such as

• EDF Energy Sizewell C and Hinckley Point
• EIT Oxford
• Langley Sustainable Urban Extension
• Cambridge Eastern Access
• A55 Route Study
• Strategic UK Infrastructure Projects
• Major sports stadium (Aston Villa/Bristol City/Birmingham City/Twickenham)

We help our clients to promote, implement and manage sustainable development—from pre‑feasibility through to planning consent. We establish plans and provision for how an area, its accessibility and needs, will develop over time and guide sustainable future development; and develop multi‑disciplinary design from concept through to detailed design and construction.

We work with public/private sector land promoters and house builders, developers, signature architects, government and local authorities. Some of the multi‑disciplinary services we provide that you will help deliver include

• Civil engineering, highways design and earthworks strategies
• Utilities, energy planning and coordination
• Drainage, flood risk and SuDS
• Site appraisal, due diligence and strategic planning advice.

• Knowledge of highway design, drainage strategy and design, flood risk assessment and management, utility design and planning as well as knowledge of the Development Industry.
• Appreciation of hydraulics, hydrology, geotechnics and building structures is desirable, as well as an understanding of construction design stages and procedures.
• The ability to produce with supervision infrastructure masterplans, site appraisals, technical reports, design calculations and construction drawings.
• Knowledge of relevant design codes such as Water UK Sewerage Sector Guidance, Design Manual for Roads & Bridges, Manual for Streets, Local Authority Design Guidance, and experience preparing drawings for contract documentation and technical approvals.
• Written and spoken communication skills and awareness of current technical and planning guidance on climate change and sustainability.
• The ability to use relevant software including Info Drainage, Micro Drainage, AutoCAD, Civil 3D and/or PDS.
• Experience liaising with clients, co‑professionals and design teams, and competence in liaising with highway, water, statutory and local authorities to negotiate the necessary outlines and detailed technical approvals and statutory agreements typically relating to development projects.
• Awareness of the relevant legal processes, planning, design, design software, technical consents process, adoption and contract procedures for the provision of sewers, SuDS, highways and utilities to new developments and regeneration projects, and how, if applied effectively, these skills combine to add value to a client’s development proposal.
• Knowledge of financial and contractual aspects of planning, bidding, and delivering both large and small projects.
• Postgraduate (or equivalent) experience and working towards chartership or having equivalent experience and…