Principal Civil Engineer

Are you an experienced Senior Civil Engineer looking to take the next step in your career, as part of a thriving, multi-disciplinary consultancy?

Maybe you're already in a Principal position, looking to expand your experience within a variety of exciting projects?

Do you want to work as part of a collaborative, dynamic team of like-minded, talented professionals?

We are looking to appoint an exceptional Principal Civil Engineer to work across an array of projects within our experienced team in London

Working as an integral part of the team, you will play a key part in delivering major Highways/Public Realm and/or Infrastructure/Drainage projects (including Residential, Custodial, Healthcare, Education, Ministry Of Justice, Commercial, Leisure).

Take a look at some of our projects here: Discover our projects - Pick Everard

As a Principal Civil Engineer, you will be an integral part of the Civil Engineering leadership team in London, where you will produce technical designs, specifications and reports for a large variety of projects in terms of size, type, and complexity, both single discipline and as part of a multi-disciplinary team. You will mentor and manage your design sub-team (project programming and planning and resources), and have an active involvement with bidding, fee preparation and client meetings. 

Our Civil Engineering discipline boast a supportive and collaborative environment, and the successful engineer can expect hands-on guidance and prosperous career development. You will also have opportunities to achieve chartered status, with mentors and access to regular workshops and seminars tailored to signing off the core objectives as part of the chartership process.

Find out what it is like to work at Pick Everard here: Life at PickEverard - Pick Everard 

As a Principal Civil Engineer, you will play a lead role in shaping our offering, as part of a collaborative, talented team.

Our ideal Principal Civil Engineer must have:

• A degree or equivalent in civil engineering or a related subject, working towards a professional qualification
• Experience managing Infrastructure schemes, as well as bespoke projects
• Good knowledge of industry design software packages
• Excellent communication skills and a team player with a confident, positive and enthusiastic attitude, able to lead a team to success 
• Ability to co-ordinate and contribute to bid preparation process including client presentation

 It would be nice for you to have:

• CEng with post chartered relevant experience or IEng with post incorporated relevant experience
• Undertaking relevant CPD activities
• A good understanding of forms of appointment and construction contracts
• Confident liaising with new and existing clients and an ability to build a good rapport with other parts of our inter-disciplinary practice, and with external design teams
• Robust problem solving skills, taking accountability for assigned work
• The ability to lead a sub-team, focused on delivery of high quality design output.  

Our nationwide multidisciplinary team of 650+ work collaboratively to deliver outstanding places and spaces that create lasting value for local communities. Through our remarkable history we have established the sound principles of success, and we have the vision and ambition to be even better.

We’re committed to creating sustainable communities where everyone feels safe, cared for and valued. We achieve that by encouraging a diverse, welcoming workplace for our people, clients and colleagues.

We care about our people and improving our society and that means supporting your ambitions and interests at every level. We will provide you with an inspiring environment in which you will be able to drive real progress and impact in your career. 

What we offer

Providing a balanced, enjoyable career is important to us, and we work hard to make sure everyone feels a valued part of our organisation. You will receive an attractive salary, and amongst other benefits you can also expect:

• Agile working
• 26 days’ annual leave + Bank Holidays + option to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave
• Private healthcare, life assurance and healthcare cash plan
• Professional subscriptions  
• Wellbeing support and Employee Assistance Programme
• Stakeholder pension

As an equal opportunities’ employer, Pick Everard is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us on our journey.

We are committed to building and nurturing great relationships with our agency partners. However, this role is being recruited for directly and therefore we are not seeking support at this time. Any unsolicited CV Introductions will not be accepted.

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