Principal Engineer Land Development Infrastructure

Principal Engineer Land Development Infrastructure

Arcadis Warrington, England, United Kingdom

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

The Enabling Infrastructure team is an established team of experienced engineers specialising in the delivery of development led infrastructure projects centred around our Birmingham, London, Bristol and Cardiff offices. As part of our wider growth strategy, we are seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to expand our capacity in the north of England. The role will nominally be based out of Manchester, but candidates will be considered in line with our agile / hybrid working policy.

The team works on projects across all of our global business areas - Mobility, Places and Resilience. We work in a wide variety of market sectors including strategic housing & residential, commercial & employment, transport hubs and major transport (rail and highways) projects. We are actively developing new client relationships within the ports and logistics sector, and we would welcome applications from candidates with previous experience in these sectors.

The team works with Arcadis offices throughout the UK and around the world using the latest technology to provide sustainable design solutions for leading public and private sector clients. The role provides a variety of interesting projects, opportunities for career progression and will combine technical delivery and deliverables management with hands-on design work. We are seeking to locate a career minded Principal Engineer who has gained proven work experience in leading the design and management of infrastructure and drainage solutions for development infrastructure projects.

The successful applicant would manage the delivery of projects to meet budget, timeframe and quality targets, meeting or exceeding client expectations, work on bidding, support the growth of our team through line management and mentoring, and be an active member of our Community of Practice which aims to improve standardisation and quality.

• Reporting to the Technical Director/ Associate Technical Director, you will be responsible for leading project teams and supporting the wider growth strategy of the Enabling Infrastructure team with line management responsibilities. You will lead by example through the successful delivery of infrastructure, highways and drainage projects.
• Project duties will include the preparation of design solutions at various stages of a project; production management of drawings / BIM models, reports, specifications and estimates; document management; attendance at meetings, and overseeing the work of other team members to deliver project objectives;
• Project management duties will include 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;
• Leading on the resolution of technical issues on projects and providing technical guidance to other team members, such as more junior engineers, technicians and apprentices;
• Working in collaboration with other design disciplines and contractor D&B teams to ensure the integrity of the overall design;
• Promoting and developing the technical capability of other team members, both within the UK and within our Global Excellence Centre;
• Overseeing the financial performance and contractual management of single discipline projects. Responsible for ensuring compliance with quality management and reporting systems.
• Keep up to date with developments in the industry sector and with technical and legislative developments and seek out opportunities to develop your professional profile.

• A proven background in the design and delivery of development infrastructure including surface water, foul water drainage, highways, earthworks, and utilities design;
• Sound knowledge of SuDS, SfA, DMRB, and Local Authority design standards;
• Experienced in preparing initial feasibility and site appraisal studies, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver successful planning applications. Experience supporting the discharge of planning conditions would be an advantage;
• Detailed design delivery for development and transport infrastructure including delivery in a D&B environment.
• Expertise in software design methods such as Micro Drainage/ Info Drainage, and AutoCAD Civils3D including integration with BIM models;
• Technically competent in fundamental design principles with the ability to apply manual calculation methods where software methods are not available;
• Line management and…