Senior Active Travel Engineer

Dublin / Edinburgh / Glasgow

This is us!

We are looking for a talented and collaborative Senior Active Travel Engineer to join our Scotland and Ireland team, an engineer who shares our purpose and desire to make a positive difference to the world around them. Sustainable design is at the heart of our Practice and collectively we can create inspirational designs that will protect our climate and enhance the built environment. This role can be based in Dublin, Edinburgh or Glasgow.

As a Senior Active Travel Engineer, you will take a leading role in the delivery of walking & cycling infrastructure, across Scotland and Ireland. You will have the opportunity to work alongside industry experts and high profile private and public-sector clients and collaborators Collaborative and helpful you will have the opportunity to work closely with high profile private and public-sector clients, influencing with your technical expertise and effective communication skills.

Leadership is an evolving skill that you will develop alongside your people management, business development and commercial abilities. Your people and solutions focus, communication and contractual awareness will be demonstrable through past projects. Guiding, developing, and supporting a team of value driven engineers, your skills in project resource planning and deadline management will be fully engaged and developed.

We are looking for a progressive and talented engineer who is keen to influence the people around them with the same understanding and empathy that they bring to their engineering. We hope you will share our strong interest in architecture and the wider public realm/built environment and play a key role in our ongoing practice and growth strategy.

Key Elements of the Job:

  • Infrastructure Ireland (TII) Publications
  • Urban Street Design / Civil Engineering Design / Highway Geometric Design;
  • Forms of Contract for Public Works;
  • Preparation of Tender Documents and Procurement Process;
  • Software experience required: AutoCAD, Civil 3D, MS Office suite
  • Preparing and checking drawings and calculations
  • Briefing Engineers and Technicians on the above
  • Attending site and project team meetings
  • Occasional visits to construction sites for survey/ inspection of works
  • Internal reviews/ critiques
  • On project training
  • Assistance to Directors
  • Technical report writing
  • Project resource planning and deadline management
  • Specification writing
  • Compliance with the duties of Designer under the CDM Regulations 2015
  • Working knowledge of:
  • Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets (DMURS)
  • Cycle Design Manual
  • The Traffic Signs Manual
  • NTA Project Approval Guidelines and Cost Management Guidelines Transport
  • Compliance with the Practice IMS

Is this you?

Chartered, you’ll be a creative thinker, passionate and enthusiastic to help grow and develop your team. SER certification would be an additional bonus. Your collaborative and helpful outlook will thrive within this innovative practice making a positive impact to the built environment.

More than just a rewarding experience!

Alongside an outstanding work environment, we offer:

  • A market competitive salary (regularly reviewed, revised and updated)
  • Flexible, Hybrid Working (Our Better Normal model of work can be as unique as you are!)

Small steps to a great journey!

Curious to find out more?

Then please contact us for a confidential chat with our team.

Send your CV or even just a small introduction to us at recruitment@civicengineers.com and we will get back to you.

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Our process

We are always looking to recruit exceptional people who believe in being friendly and client-focused. We look for personal qualities such as creativity, approachability, enthusiasm and diligence and for team players who are willing to go the extra mile for our clients, collaborators and their colleagues!

We are an ‘Approved Employer’ for the ICE Training Scheme and offer structured and supportive training towards chartered engineer status with the ICE and / or IStructE for ambitious Civil / Structural Engineering graduates.

We always encourage direct applications for all our positions and rarely use recruitment agencies. CV’s sent through by agencies that we have not engaged with in advance of a position being advertised will not be considered via this route.

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