Senior Civil Engineer

Senior Civil Engineer - Concertus Property and Design, part of the Vertas Group
£45,000 per annum
Ipswich, Suffolk
Full time, Permanent

Role Purpose:
To plan, design and manage civil design projects, ensuring the designs are compliant and
economic.

Your accountabilities:
Team Worker:
* Participate as a Senior member of the Concertus team supporting colleagues and working collaboratively to develop the business
* Deputise for the Principal Civil and Structural Engineer as required
* Work flexibly to support delivery across the service
* Support junior employees
Customer Service:
* Prepare bids for design schemes
* Report to clients, public agencies and planning bodies
* Provide an efficient and business-like point of contact
* Deliver a consistent and professional level of customer service at all times to clients and other stakeholders
Business Delivery:
* Undertake feasibility, concept and detail civil engineering design and checking
* Undertake inspections of civil engineering installations
* Commission specialist surveys
* Obtain approvals from statutory bodies
* Prepare reports including Flood Risk Assessments
* Create engineering drawings using CAD packages and sketches for drafting

It's essential you have:
* Strong Engineering experience
* Chartership with ICE or equivalent
* Strong experience designing SuDs drainage
* Experience designing small highways schemes
* Decision making under minimal supervision abilities
* Ability to work directly with clients and other team members to ensure projects are completed in agreed timescales
* Assessing the environmental impact and risks connected to design decisions
* Assessing the Health and Safety impact and risks connected to design decisions
* Managing, directing and monitoring progress during each phase of a project
* Monitoring and inspecting work undertaken by contractors

BIM Roles and Responsibilities:
* Coordinated delivery of all design information
* Confirm design deliverables
* Ensuring Asset Information requirements and/or MIDP requirements set out in the Employers Information Requirements and delivered on a BIM project.
* Enable reliable information exchange through a common data environment
* Enable integration and coordination of information within the information model
* Configure information for project outputs
* Assure delivery of information exchanges
* Confirm supplier's ability to deliver information requirements
* Manage information development and information approvals
* Production of design outputs related to discipline specific, package-based or time-based tasks
* Direct the production of task information in compliance with standards and methods
* Direct the product of task information using agreed systems
* Manage spatial coordination on behalf of task team
* Propose resolutions to coordination clashes

Your Package:

£45,000 per annum

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 26 after a year of service

2 months full sick pay plus an additional 2 months half sick pay

Royal London Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
Lifeworks Staff discount scheme.
Job related training plus personal development opportunities.
Mental Health First Aiders support.
24/7 Access to Employee Assistance Programme and MyGP via WeCare for you and your household.

Colleague loyalty discount scheme with LifeWorks Perks including retail discounts, holiday vouchers
Black-tie Annual Colleague Awards at a luxurious venue, colleague Recognition schemes
Aspiring Leaders Programme for mentoring and continued professional development with Senior Leadership Team and our Directors.

We want enthusiastic individuals with a positive working attitude to join our team of 4,000 colleagues across the UK. Vertas Group are an inclusive and equal opportunities employer who believe that our people power what we do. We aim to ensure that our workforce reflects the diversity of the communities in which it operates