Associate Civil Engineer, Leicester, LE1 1HA

Job Description

Associate Civil Engineer

Our Opportunity

Are you an experienced, motivated Principal Civil Engineer with ambitions of progression and a drive to achieve success? Do you want to work within a collaborative, dynamic environment, with a team of highly skilled and like-minded Engineers? Are you looking to lead and shape an Infrastructure team, as part of a leading multi-disciplinary construction consultancy?

We are looking to expand our Infrastructure and Highways senior management team and appoint an exceptional Associate Civil Engineer to work across an array of projects within our Infrastructure team in Leicester, Sheffield or Manchester. Working closely with the Director, you will be responsible for leading major projects, across sectors including residential, custodial, leisure, defence, education, healthcare and heritage.

You can expect to become involved in:

1. Managing a large variety of projects in terms of size, type, and complexity.
2. Supervising a team of engineers and technicians ensuring projects are delivered to the requisite quality, on time and on budget.

Your core duties will include:

1. Working to achieve the disciplines' planned targets through excellent service delivery to our clients.
2. Liaising directly with them and where appropriate supporting business development activities (bidding, tendering and client interviews) along with team development and training.
3. Day-to-day control of programming and planning, staff resources and monitoring of team utilisation and preparing and overseeing designs and reports.

Pick Everard are proud to value individuals and provide the successful candidate with genuine scope to lead and shape the future of our Civil Engineering offering. You will be able to nurture emerging talent and provide valuable insights to help drive the business forward.

About You

The successful candidate will have significant, proven Infrastructure experience, and be passionate about civil engineering. In order to be considered for this role, you must have:

1. The ability to lead a team, be forward-thinking, proactive and positive, with an understanding of our key objectives and how to deliver them efficiently.
2. Experience liaising with clients and managing Infrastructure schemes, as well as bespoke projects that will require practical application of your experience to date.
3. Previous experience writing and presenting reports along with client interaction and work winning.
4. Good knowledge of industry design software packages such as Site 3D, Infraworks, Civils 3D.
5. Excellent communication skills, demonstrable through writing and presenting.

In order to stand out from the crowd, it is desirable for you to have:

1. An ability to build a good rapport with other parts of our inter-disciplinary practice, while quickly developing a clear understanding of our values, culture and business goals.
2. CEng or IEng status.
3. Experience in a variety of different forms of contract.

About Us

Our nationwide multidisciplinary team of 650+ work collaboratively to deliver outstanding places and spaces that create lasting value for local communities. Through our remarkable history we have established the sound principles of success, and we have the vision and ambition to be even better. We’re committed to creating sustainable communities where everyone feels safe, cared for and valued. We achieve that by encouraging a diverse, welcoming workplace for our people, clients and colleagues.

We care about our people and improving our society and that means supporting your ambitions and interests at every level. We will provide you with an inspiring environment in which you will be able to drive real progress and impact in your career.

What we offer

Providing a balanced, enjoyable career is important to us, and we work hard to make sure everyone feels a valued part of our organisation. You will receive an attractive salary, and amongst other benefits you can also expect:

• Agile working
• 26 days’ annual leave + Bank Holidays + option to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave
• Private healthcare, life assurance and healthcare cash plan
• Professional subscriptions
• Wellbeing support and Employee Assistance Programme
• Stakeholder pension

As an equal opportunities’ employer, Pick Everard is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of, , , , and maternity, or , or belief, , or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us on our journey.

We are committed to building and nurturing great relationships with our agency partners. However, this role is being recruited for directly and therefore we are not seeking support at this time. Any unsolicited CV Introductions will not be accepted.

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