Location
Central London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

We are seeking an enthusiastic Senior Civil Infrastructure Engineer to support our regional Development Team in Cambridge, focusing on civil engineering for development infrastructure. You will work within a team supporting the production of designs and drawings for construction projects and technical reports for masterplanning in support of planning applications. You can expect to be active on several projects and client accounts at any given time and will report to a senior member of the Development Team.

Your role will involve providing day-to-day support in the delivery of concept studies and strategies with hands-on design, leading to planning applications, technical approval submissions and construction drawing issue. You will contribute to all types of Development projects across sectors and clients, be active on several varied multi-disciplinary project/client accounts, and provide guidance and support to a team of experienced and developing technical staff.

You will be involved in high-profile client engagement, stakeholder management, design team liaison (both internal and external multidisciplinary professionals), and project management. Depending on experience, you will be responsible or actively engaged in ensuring projects are delivered to budget, programme, technical standards and legal requirements.

Our team works on some of the most prestigious developments in the UK, including HS2 Curzon Street Station, Birmingham Eden Project North, Greenwich Peninsula, HS2 Old Oak Common Station, London Aston Villa, Birmingham, and Bahrain International Sports City, Bahrain.

The Development Team is a well-established and high-performing discipline within the Planning and Development business unit, comprising over 800 colleagues focused on project delivery through the whole project life cycle, from initial land acquisition, planning support and design, through to scheme implementation. Our vision is to be recognised as the best Development team in the industry, achieved through continuous improvement and a management structure based on Technical Excellence, People, Clients and Operational Excellence.

We help clients promote, implement and manage sustainable development from pre-feasibility through to planning consent; establish plans for area accessibility and needs over time; and develop multi-disciplinary design from concept through to detailed design and construction. We work with public/private sector land promoters, house builders, developers, signature architects, Government and local authorities.

Some of the multi-disciplinary services you will help deliver include civil engineering, highways design and earthworks strategies; utilities, energy planning and coordination; drainage, flood risk and SuDS; site appraisal, due diligence and strategic planning advice.

Experience
- Knowledge of and experience in highway design, drainage strategy and design, flood risk assessment and management, utility design and planning.
- Ability to produce infrastructure masterplans, site appraisals, technical reports, design calculations and construction drawings.
- Experience liaising with clients, co-professionals and design teams, including highway, water, statutory and local authorities to negotiate technical approvals and statutory agreements.
- Familiarity with relevant design codes such as Water UK Sewerage Sector Guidance, Design Manual for Roads & Bridges, Manual for Streets, and Local Authority Design Guidance.
- Competence in using or directing use of software including InfoDrainage, Civils 3D and/or PDS.
- Understanding of construction design stages, procedures, legal processes, planning, design software, technical consents, adoption and contract procedures related to sewers, SuDS, highways and utilities.
- Knowledge of financial and contractual aspects of planning, bidding and delivering projects.
- Postgraduate or equivalent experience and nearing Chartership or possessing equivalent commercial experience and responsibility.

About You
Enthusiastic and proactive engineer with strong technical knowledge and excellent communication skills. You are comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously and enjoy working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams. You have a passion for sustainable development and a commitment to delivering high-quality infrastructure solutions that meet client and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications
Postgraduate degree or equivalent in Civil Engineering or related discipline. Nearing Chartered Engineer status or equivalent professional recognition is highly desirable.