Civil design engineer in Leeds, United Kingdom, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
About you
You will have a keen interest in developing your understanding and ability in civil engineering design and a willingness to research and take on new challenges. You will be able to work independently and use your engineering judgement to tackle day to day problems, whilst keeping project managers informed of your progress.
You will understand the multi-disciplinary nature of projects from initial stage, through to completion and a willingness to understand more about other discipline roles on projects.
You will understand the importance of working with different types of client in a complex industry – our clients include developers, local authorities and contractors, all of whom have different expectations and requirements from you and the projects you will work on.
You will be expected to have the following personal attributes and skills:
- Technical experience within the field of Civil Engineering design, covering several aspects of preliminary and detailed design of civil engineering infrastructure.
- An aptitude using our industry standard design software packages including AutoCAD and Microstation.
- The use of the Microsoft Office Suite of software, including Excel.
- Experience liaising with both internal and external bodies, including but not limited to planning authorities and statutory undertakers.
- Experience liaising with other consultants such as engineers, planners, project managers and directly with Clients.
- The ability to undertake site surveys on track where required.
- A desire to obtain professional engineering qualifications.
- Commercial awareness within your field of experience.
- Willingness to develop an outward facing capacity as a design team representative in dealings with clients on technical matters.
- A willingness to delegate design responsibility to others and act in a mentoring role to less experienced staff.
- Good communicator, both written and oral, with the ability to adapt communication style to suit different circumstances
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships at all levels both internally and externally.
- A ‘self-starter’ with drive, positivity and enthusiasm and a strong desire to succeed.
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