Company Description
My client is a civil engineering, construction, utilities, and plant hire firm based in Wakefield. The family-owned business prides itself on integrity, high standards, and excellent customer service. The company delivers services across the north of England and beyond, specialising in civil engineering for infrastructure, drainage management, and in-house design services for water and wastewater projects.
 
Role Description
This is a full-time role for a Design Engineer (Civils). The position is based in Wakefield. The Design Engineer will be responsible for creating technical designs for infrastructure and civil engineering projects, collaborating with project teams to ensure designs meet client requirements and regulatory standards, and producing detailed CAD drawings. Additional responsibilities include engineering calculations, reviewing project specifications, and contributing to sustainable and cost-effective solutions while maintaining high levels of safety and quality.
 
Qualifications
·Performing and coordinating internal and external activities associated with civil and drainage design, in line with client specifications and design standards.
·Design duties will include preparation of design solutions at various stages of a project; preparation of drawings, reports, specifications, calcs and estimates; attendance at Client meetings and checking the work of peers to ensure accuracy.
·Collaborating with a wide range of discipline inputs; monitoring and protecting our client relationships; assisting with planning and programming; commercial management and presenting projects for audit.
·Attend Engineering Expos and implement the very latest technologies in the Industry, staying up to date with developments.
·Maintaining on-going communication with relevant Team Leaders / Senior Managers and clients when required to ensure effective communications on matters relevant to the project.
·Contributing to the resolution of technical issues on projects and providing technical guidance to other team members, such as junior engineers, technicians, and apprentices.
·Working in collaboration with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall design.
·Developing innovative and entrepreneurial thinking and behaviour.
·Continual professional development in the industry and keeping up to date with innovations and developments.
·Being familiar with, and compliant with, relevant Health & Safety regulations and to promote a culture of awareness within the team.
·Lead by example to others on site and implement best practice procedures within the team and site personnel
·Ensure people work to the company values and respect the public and their surroundings
·Maintain quality and environmental control procedures in accordance with ISO 9001, ISO 19650 and ISO 14001.
·Create and maintain good relations with clients, design teams and neighbours as well as any other stakeholders.
 
Personal Attributes
·Be a qualified Engineer and ideally chartered or a member of a relevant institution i.e. ICE
·Have suitable civil design experience of water treatment, inc. drainage, clean water, separation gained through working on infrastructure projects within the UK water sector.
·Have knowledge of the UK Water Industry and Sewer Sector Guidance standards for drainage design.
·Have expertise in software design methods such as InfoDrainage, AutoCAD, Revit and Civils3D, knowledge of integration with BIM models would be desirable.
·Be technically competent in hydraulic design principles and ability to apply manual calculation methods where software methods are not available. Hydraulic profiling would be an advantage.
·The ability to design slabs and concrete hardstandings.
·Have a full UK driving license.