Senior Civil Engineer

Senior Civil Engineer – Liverpool Office

CAREERS

Responsible to:Associate/Principal Civil Engineer

Role Purpose:

To work effectively as a Senior Civil Engineer, you must establish yourself as a key leader in the team, fully using your leadership and mentoring skills to develop and guide junior Engineers and maintain excellent customer relationships. Additionally, you must lead projects to ensure resources are allocated effectively and projects are delivered successfully and on time.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage your pool of resources effectively and efficiently to ensure successful outcomes for all projects under your remit.
• Deliver high-quality designs, drawings, and reports using engineering materials, and in a form that can readily be checked by another member of staff.
• Influence development and infrastructure master-planning using knowledge of Highways Act 1980, Water Industry Act 2004, Land Drainage Act, New Roads and Street Works Act, and other Statutory Instruments, etc, as required.
• Produce high-quality designs for feasibility, costing and construction purposes, highways & drainage, street works, public works, SUDS, building drainage, utilities coordination/diversion as services if and when required by our clients.
• Lead teams to assist with consultancy guidance, feasibility, outline, and detailed design, referencing manuals for streets, sewers for adoption, design manuals for roads and bridges, specifications for highway works and building regulations and guidance.

This will form part of everyday demands.

• Undertake project design from commencement to completion.
• Undertake the co-ordination of thorough site investigations, complete inspections, and identify and resolve any issues as appropriate.
• Manage junior Engineers and Technicians in the process of project design and delivery.
• Offer leadership, mentoring, encouragement and motivation to junior Engineers and Technicians.
• Undertake appropriate Continuing Professional Development and maintain CPD records in accordance with the requirements of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
• Recognise the importance of clear communication with all members of the design and/or construction team regarding matters of structural safety and keep up to date with information provided by CROSS (Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures (see (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).).
• Assist in recruitment, retention and management of staff and ensure successful outcomes for our clients/customers.
• Ensure financial control of projects when acting as a Project Manager.
• Involvement in identification and management of project risks and preparation of risk
• assessments.
• Undertake Business Development for the benefit of Thomas Consulting.
• Undertake production and approval of single and multi-discipline fee proposals for client/customer projects in accordance with Thomas Consulting procedures, terms and conditions or customer-specific contract requirements.
• Undertake accurate and timely assessments of variations and appraisal of fee cost and/or timescale impacts, and agreement with client/customer organisations.
• Manage engineering teams to ensure utilisation and recovery targets are monitored and achieved.
• Represent the company at design team meetings with clients and other construction professionals.

Software Capabilities:

• Use AutoCAD 2D Drafting, PDS Site Developer / Civil 3D, Flow / Micro-drainage or similar hydraulic design software, TEDDS, and other industry-recognised software.

Professional Requirements:

• Ideally Chartered Membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers and/or the Institution of Structural Engineers.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Company Pension scheme
• Payment of professional fees (e.g., ICE/IStructE memberships)
• Increased holiday entitlement for long service
• A dynamic and collaborative work environment in a multi-office organisation