Location: London (hybrid working: min 3 days in the office)

Grade: Senior / Principal Engineer

Salary: £50,000 - £65,000 per annum depending on experience including competitive benefits

Vacancy Type: Permanent Hours: Full Time (37.5h p/w)

What makes us different The Useful Simple Trust (UST) is a family of highly renowned professional design and consultancy practices. Our 70+ talented and committed civil and structural engineers, architects, designers, construction innovation consultants, strategists and sustainability experts work side-by-side creating positive outcomes for our changing built environment following our key company values: Work for Good, More with Less, Restore and Adapt and Get, Set, Zero.

Our three practices Expedition Engineering, Useful Projects and Useful Studio share space, ideas and experience, and regularly collaborate on a range of high-profile projects in the UK and internationally. Our breadth of experience gives us a depth of inter-disciplinary thinking rarely found in the industry.

As a Social Enterprise, B Corp and Employee Benefit Organisation, we do things differently. Our people are highly motivated and committed, in part because our structure and values mean that our combined success is shared equitably. We share part of our profit and re-invest the rest in research, social and environmental projects. We deliver purposeful projects that we believe have a sustainable impact on our clients and the wider human environment. We are particularly focused on the sector’s biggest challenges around productivity, resource efficiency and the climate emergency / net zero.

Expedition Engineering is an award-winning engineering consultancy and our masterplanning and infrastructure design work is industry leading. We work for local authorities across the UK, private developers, and international clients. Our collaborators include leading architectural, landscape and urban design practices with whom we have developed strong working relationships. We also work closely with leading ecologists. We provide a wide range of engineering services into the development of concept masterplans, infrastructure projects and building design.

Our key skills are centred on nature based, water sensitive design integrated with landscape, biodiversity and climate resilience, closed-loop water strategies, flood risk mitigations and flood defence design, earthworks and ground engineering strategies.

We deliver purposeful projects that we believe have a positive impact for our clients and the wider human environment. We are focused on sustainable urban regeneration, place making, resource efficiency and the climate and biodiversity emergencies. We take a whole life and holistic approach to design, built on best practice and on-going research and innovation. We work collaboratively with academics and expert collaborators to augment our skill set.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a professionally qualified Senior / Principal Civil Engineer with Chartered Engineer (CEng) status to join our team. You would be part of a dynamic team and have the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects, from city-wide masterplans through to parks and public realm projects including educational, arts and leisure, commercial and residential developments

You will likely have between 5-8 years post-graduation design experience with the ability to think through complex problems and embrace creative and appropriate solutions. You will have strong analysis, engineering design and communication skills. The successful candidate will have the following core experience:

• Technical design of key infrastructure systems including water, flood mitigation, drainage, highways and utilities.
• Digital design and systems optimisation tools such as parametric earth movement modelling and information systems and 3D modelling
• Site analysis including hydrology, utilities, ground condition and environmental conditions.
• Defining briefs, developing strategies and undertaking feasibility studies in response to client needs.

Our ideal candidate will have a sound technical base with good knowledge of relevant infrastructure standards, and an ability to adapt and work with other relevant international standards and practices. He/she will also have:

• Strong analytical and research skills
• Experience in negotiating with technical stakeholders such as the Environment Agency, Lead Local Flood Authorities and water undertakers.
• Experience in the production of accurate, high-quality drawings
• Strong IT skills along with an ability to interpret and work with maps, plans and drawings
• Experience of design software commonly used in the design of infrastructure associated with building-based projects. This could include Autodesk Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Revit, InfoDrainage (or similar), GIS, etc.
• Awareness of BIM and its application on projects
• A good understanding of sustainable development practice
• The ability to work both individually and as part of a multidisciplinary team whilst taking responsibility for the quality of their work
• The ability to liaise directly with clients, architects and other parties in a project’s professional team.
• The ability to communicate confidently and to be able to adapt their approach to suit specific situations.

Any of the following skills would also be welcome and would allow the candidate to contribute more widely to our projects:

• Experience of 3D parametric modelling such as Rhino/Grasshopper
• Experience of design software used in energy and environmental analysis (IES VE, JPA SAP,Ladybug, Honeybee, DIVA, EnergyPlus etc.)
• Environmental design of buildings

Professional qualifications are expected to include:

• BSc/BEng (or equivalent) in Civil Engineering
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status and membership of an appropriate professional body such as ICE, CIWEM (or similar)

Personal Attributes:

• Proactive person who enjoys working in a team environment
• Good sense of humour
• Passionate about building a better future
• Enthusiastic person, who takes pride in his/ her work
• Flexible, organised and good communicator

What we offer

We believe in investing and growing our people as much as we do our business. We foster talent, equal opportunity, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing to develop a high performing and sustainable workforce.

The package comprises:

• Flexible working including 9-day fortnight scheme
• Aviva Private medical insurance with access to WeCare 24/7 GP access
• Supported route to chartership with enhanced learning and development opportunities
• Professional membership(s) reimbursement