Senior / Principal Civil Engineer

Senior / Principal Civil Engineer
Location: Winchester
Salary: £Competitive 

Are you an experienced Civil Engineer? Are you ambitious to develop your career? If the answer is YES, we may just have the perfect role for you!

As an experienced Civil Engineer at our Winchester office you will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the design from inception to the production of as-built drawings. In addition, you will also be expected to mentor less experienced engineers and technicians within the office. 

Main Duties 

• Supervise CAD Technicians 
• Represent the company at external meetings with clients and fellow professionals 
• Be responsible for delivering work to a fee agreed with a Project Manager 
• Project profitability (monitoring / planning of costs and budgets) 
• Prepare client / project proposals 
• Assist in negotiating fee proposals and requesting additional fees 
• Construct project teams from internal and external resources
• Procure project resources 
• Agree design philosophy / design fundamentals 

Skills Required 

• Be familiar with Building regulations Approved documents, SuDS Manual, Code for Sustainable Homes, BREEAM and be able to prepare Flood Risk Assessments
• Knowledge of the Flood and Water Management Act and its implications on the design of drainage schemes will be beneficial
• Demonstrable experience in Section 38, 278 and 104 Agreements 
• Hands on knowledge of AutoCAD and MicroDrainage, AutoCAD Civil 3D would be particularly advantageous
• Experience designing all aspects of development Infrastructure works [Roads, Drainage, Plot Level designs etc.]
• Recently Chartered or near Chartered

The role will be client facing and therefore strong interpersonal and communicative skills are essential. 

Raising awareness – A commitment to understanding and promoting the wider Ridge services and capabilities, and to sharing this knowledge with the contacts you deal with, internally and externally with Clients and contact. All staff are expected to maintain a Cross-Selling log throughout the year, for review as part of the annual PDR process.

Benefits
At Ridge we invest heavily in our biggest assets........our people. And as you will find out from day one in your Ridge career, you will be handsomely rewarded:

•    25 days holiday
•    Private Healthcare
•    Company car or car allowance
•    Life Assurance
•    Pension: Standard 5% Ridge Contribution
•    Highly competitive salary
•    Salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme
•    Salary sacrifice childcare scheme
•    Free car parking
•    Excellent work / life balance

Ridge is an award winning, UK top 20 multi-discipline property and construction consultancy with over 600 people. Core disciplines include Project Management, Cost Management, Building Surveying, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Building Services Engineering, Building Services Maintenance Management, Property Consultancy, Architecture, Health & Safety, Sustainability, Expert Witness & Advisory Services, Traffic & Transportation, Infrastructure Commercial Management, Geo-Environmental and Town & Country Planning. In addition, we provide property consultancy expertise for asset management, modern procurement, planned maintenance programmes, innovative strategies and holistic delivery planning.

We maintain a spread of projects across all public and private sector markets from affordable housing to Formula One which is the essence of our strength in the depth and diverse range of our activity. All services are accredited to BS EN ISO9001 2015 for quality, ISO14001 environmental and ISO18001 Health & Safety. Ridge has been successfully operating since 1946 and now employs over 600 people in 11 offices across the UK and has delivered projects in 75 countries worldwide.