Job Description

As a senior member of our engineering team you will be able to demonstrate a broad range of civil and environmental engineering skill and experience. You will have an applied knowledge of river engineering, flood risk management and design of hydraulic structures. It will also be beneficial if you have experience of inspecting road and rail assets where they interface with the water environment, and also supervision of construction activities.

You will have a sound understanding of current legislation relating to flood risk management, design standards and awareness of health and safety matters. You will be an effective communicator with a proven track record of delivering projects. Responsibilities likely to include:

• Mentoring & developing graduates, Engineers & Senior Engineers within the Water Catchment Management team (likely 4-8 direct reports dependent upon location)
• Creation of work scope briefs for local & Global Integrated Delivery engineering teams
• Undertaking checking of design deliverables/outputs
• Setting & Maintaining standards for technical quality ensuring designs meet Client/Industry specifications
• Assisting or leading multi-disciplinary project teams to complete scopes of work within agreed time frames
• Working with project managers and other design team members in an integrated approach
• Working to meet Health and Safety and overall project quality objectives
• Ensuring project financial performance within technical discipline budget on projects
• Developing and maintaining excellent relationships with other Jacobs discipline leads on projects

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Chartered Engineer (ideally ICE/CIWEM). Extensive experience of delivering river engineering and flood risk management projects. Experience of designing hydraulic structures within the river environment. Experience in civil engineering design, documentation and procurement processes. Understanding of responsibilities under CDM. Experience of working with British Standards, Eurocodes and working. knowledge of relevant design guides, such as those published by CIRIA. Excellent communication skills, including written work. Experience and proven capability of technically leading civil engineering design teams. Experience of working in multi-disciplinary project teams. Experience of working with and managing Clients and other project stakeholders & statutory bodies. Experience of checking and reviewing the work of others.