Our client is recruiting for a Civil Engineer with design experience to work on major projects within the water sector. This will be a mixed role including 3 days in Peterborough and 2 days in Loughborough.

Role Summary
- Be part of one of the most successful, award-winning and progressive water sector capital delivery organisations.
- Produce civil designs on a diverse programme of wastewater (sewage) treatment, infrastructure (water and sewer pipelines) and water (treatment and storage) projects.
- Develop new ways of working that focus on delivering outcomes, rather than outputs, to reduce carbon, protect and increase natural capital, address climate change, and embrace innovations and new digital technologies.
- Grow your professional internal and external networks with a multitude of partners that form the @one Alliance.
- Broaden your skills by working collaboratively with Project Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Procurement, Stakeholder Management, Environmental & Planning, and Construction Managers.

Role Accountabilities
Design
- Development of civil designs for water-sector assets.
- Undertake hydraulic design of pipelines (pressure and gravity flow), flow in open channels and closed conduits.
- Design, schedule and specify pipes, including ductile iron, steelwork and plastic.
- Ability to read drawings and models, and produce clear and concise design sketches to be incorporated into a Model.
- Provide input to specifications, proposals, work scope, and schedules.
- Undertake design development from feasibility studies, optioneering and detailed designs.
Design Management
- Support the preparation of Engineering Project Plans.
- Ensure your work is carried out in accordance with the agreed timescales and budgets, and advise the Technical Manager of any deviation as soon as it occurs.
- Assist in responding to Design Queries and Design Change Requests during assembly of permanent works on site, and have an awareness of cost, Health & Safety, programme, compliance and risk impacts.
- Prepare site investigation and survey requirements, and attend and record survey findings.
- Ensure that design output and procurement documentation is prepared in accordance with appropriate standards and specifications, and the Alliance Management System.
- Develop efficient designs that achieve the project affordability, programme and carbon targets.
- Assist with the management of Tier 2 sub-contractors.
- Understand root cause analysis for developing solutions that balance capital and maintenance needs.
Transformation
- Proactively research and implement innovative new processes and ways of working to optimise output.
- Experiment, deliberately-deliver-differently, innovate, manage risk, and continuously improve performance.
- Support reducing carbon and natural capital within designs.
- Embrace new digital technologies to achieve the goal of fully attributed 3D models.

Qualifications & Experience
- A civil or structural diploma, engineering degree, or equivalent.
- Working towards professional status, with a relevant institution such as the Institution Civil Engineers (ICE) or Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE).
- Civil design experience.
- Preferable, but not essential, experience of water-sector assets and delivering capital projects.
- Ideally, but not essential, experience of a Design & Build environment.

Competencies & Skills
Leadership
- Demonstrates compliance with the organisations business ethics, a respectful attitude to others within the alliance, Anglian Water and customers, the need to protect our reputation, and integrity.
- Fosters good collaboration and communication with project teams.
- Effective personal and social skills, and champions diversity and inclusion.
- Awareness of the need to learn and an ability to identify their own learning and development needs.
- Ensures decisions are made in a timely manner, considering health & safety and commercial risk, and takes ownership.
Management
- Influences colleagues using sound advice to get the best outcomes.
- Strives to achieve efficiency in their engineering outputs.
- Ensures that quality procedures are robustly followed and identifies improvements.
- Actively realises project opportunities and mitigates project risks.
Delivery
- Understands the overall project affordability and actively works to improve the commercial performance.
- Contributes to developing and delivering the project programme.
- Actively develops solutions to reduce carbon and increase natural capital.
Technical
- Continuously strives to improve their engineering skills and ability.
- Contributes to the development of engineering documents, drawings and 3D models.
- Actively seeks and embraces innovation concepts to improve efficiency.