Your new company
Hays are working in partnership with a Northern Ireland Civil and Structural Engineering consultancy company seeking to hire a Senior Civil Engineer.
This company delivers innovative and sustainable engineering solutions across a range of sectors including Built Environment, Infrastructure, Public Health, Marine and River, Renewable energy and Specialist services. They have been working in the sector for over 60 years, offering a wealth of expertise in civil, structural, water, wastewater, traffic engineering and other specialised advice, including CDMC services and consulting support both locally and globally. This company has received several awards from different professional and civic bodies recognising the excellent service that they have delivered. Fully accredited with the Quality Assurance Scheme (BS EN ISO 9001:2015), Environmental Management System (BS EN ISO 14001:2015) and Occupational Health and Safety Systems Specification (ISO 45001:2018), they are the employer of choice in the Northern Ireland market.

Your new role
Our client is actively seeking a Senior Civil Engineer to join their Public Health Team in Northern Ireland.
As a Senior Civil Engineer, your responsibilities will include:
• Preparing feasibility studies for water and wastewater projects
• Undertaking design work and being responsible for preparing contract documentation for public health and water engineering.
• You’ll be tasked with creating project specifications. This involves combining standard specifications from external agencies with in-house specifications.
• Supervising graduates and technicians, guiding them in the preparation of detailed scheme drawings.
• Actively participate in design team meetings and engage in client consultations.
• Organising and overseeing site surveys and site investigations.
• Operating within our firm’s quality system, ensuring adherence to procedures. Additionally, you’ll contribute to the designer’s input for health and safety plans related to projects.
• As needed, you may apply other general civil engineering skills across different sections of our company.

What you'll need to succeed
To be successful for the Senior Civil Engineer role, our client requires a candidate:

• With a Degree in Civil Engineering and or is working towards or has achieved chartered status as a desirable benefit.
• Have 5 years’ experience in Civil Engineering in Public Health, Water, or alternative civil engineering sector.
• Possess good technical knowledge both in MS Word and Excel
• Proficient in using BIM software
• Ideally, candidates should have good negotiating and interpersonal skills, be able to work in a team environment or on their own initiative, be client focused, with good organisational skills, as well as be able to maintain confidentiality due to the nature of work.

What you'll get in return
Our client is offering an attractive Annual salary negotiable on experience. Feel free to contact Hays to discuss.

You will enjoy the company’s benefits like Health and wellness benefits (i.e. Life assurance, health cash plan and many others). You will also benefit from flexible daily start and finish times, with standard 7.5-hour day. Employee Schemes include Bike Ride Salary Sacrifice Scheme, Car parking Scheme, Long Service award, Refer a Friend Scheme, and the Annual Team Building/Social Events throughout the year. The company also provides support in Training and Career development, like supporting to become Chartered with IStructE, CIWEM, IHT or IEI .

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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