Associate Civil Engineer

We have an opportunity for an Associate Civil Engineer based in London or looking to relocate to the area for one of the UK’s top engineering consultancies. They have been around for over 100 years and are continuing to grow and embrace civil engineering opportunities within the UK and rest of the world.

Your role will be of an Associate level to lead a lead of Junior Engineers within their development team in Central London. You can expect your day to be varied, whether that be mentoring and progressing others and supporting the Directors and additionally meeting deadlines.

What’s on offer

• Personal development programme
• Hybrid / flexible working
• Private medical insurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Inclusive work environment
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

The role

• Providing strategic direction and highly visible leadership.
• Working in partnership with other colleagues to ensure coordination across the Development discipline and sharing of market intelligence, best practice and innovation.
• Driving business development by being embedded within local networks of decision makers and establishing lasting relationships.
• Winning work from key accounts and align the business to secure major opportunities and an increasing order book. Mentoring and coaching of Mid-Career Professional’s in Client Management, Project Management & leadership roles / functions Leading and support bids by contributing reviewing and authorising submissions and by demonstrating added value both commercially and technically.
• Supporting all aspects associated with H&S / Corporate Responsibility and ensure the team complies with SHEQ.
• Track record in securing new workstreams and generating new business opportunities in the Development sector / market.

What you need to succeed

• Excellent inter-personal skills with good leadership and management abilities capable of communicating effectively with all parts of the business.
• Demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively, use own knowledge to support and coach others as required. Actively champion sharing knowledge, ideas, and intelligence.
• Strong presentation skills, able to lead and facilitate workshops, training sessions and one to one learning.
• Influential and persuasive internally and externally, encourages open dialogue and feedback.
• Able to establish, build, sustain and share strong, professional relationships with relevant groups both inside and outside the organisation.
• Driven to exceed client expectations.
• Able to reason logically and apply a systematic process to finding solutions, proactive in responding to problems, able to apply sound logic in situations of ambiguity and problem-solving methodologies across a range of circumstances. Strong commercial and strategic capability with a demonstrable track record in having identified and subsequently delivered new business opportunities.
• Expert stakeholder management and related relationship and team management skills.
• Demonstrate the desire to constantly improve, motivate and encourage others, lead, and implement change programmes, inspiring colleagues and drive an innovative and supportive culture.
• Act as a catalyst for change.
• Forward thinking, capable of visualising and planning for the longer term. A broad range of project experience, both within Discipline and multi-disciplinary.