Vertical Recruitment Limited Looking for Senior Civil Engineer at Manchester, Greater Manchester Full Time

Vertical Recruitment are working with a multi-award-winning engineering and environmental design consultancy with a proven reputation for technical excellence and exceptional client satisfaction. They’re rated an employer of choice, that demonstrates the commitment to their people. They invest in their people and ensure they have everything they need to develop a fantastic career.

Working within their Rail Civils department allows you to work on a wide range of projects, from minor upgrades and simple footbridge structures in the UK to complex bridges on multi-billion-pound infrastructure projects in Israel and Australia.

What you’ll be doing

The Rail team provides a comprehensive design and advisory service focused on meeting the engineering challenges involved in servicing the infrastructure requirements of renewal, enhancement and turnkey projects. 

They work across all types of railway systems and our clients range from local developers through to international contractors working for public sector bodies.  They aim to create a working environment that provides challenge, enjoyment and a real sense of satisfaction with a view to encouraging personal and professional development in all our staff.

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrate previous project experience from project inception to construction
• Experience of railway design projects and general bridge design would be advantageous
• Experience using ProjectWise and Eb would be beneficial as would knowledge of Network Rail standards
• Strong IT skills and be fully conversant with our industry standard design software packages such as Tedds and STAAD.
• Ability to work independently, and manage others, to produce designs for approval and construction.
• Knowledge and experience of current health and safety legislation including CDM Regulations.
• Ability to use design standards and technical guidance to produce designs with respect to rail projects.
• Knowledge and experience working with Eurocodes and Network Rail standards.
• Appreciation of the other rail disciplines and the wider aspects of design and construction.
• Experience in the use of Microsoft software packages including Excel, Word and Outlook.
• Bridge design experience would be advantageous.
• Experience managing projects using engineering judgement.
• Knowledge of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and how it is applied.
• Working towards incorporated or chartered status with a relevant engineering institution (eg. ICE).

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (with the option to purchase more), pension, life assurance (4x salary) and healthcare.
• Perkbox, Cycle to Work, paid volunteering days, regular social events, rewards scheme and much more.
• Salaries are benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
• Access to personalised fully funded Learning & Development opportunities including charterships and paid professional subscriptions.
• Hybrid working
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and the option to buy extra days holiday per year to boost your entitlement, after 3 years your holiday entitlement increases to 28 days and after 5 years it increases to 30 days and after 10 years you are able to take a 2 week sabbatical which is then given every 5 years.
• Professional Subscription – they will make a payment for one professional subscription a year.
• Social Fund – they will pay £25 per head per quarter to have a great time socialising with your colleagues outside of the work environment.
• Loyalty bonus – bonus, additional holidays, pension enhancement and sabbaticals.
• 1 paid day of volunteering for a company-nominated charity
• 2.5 paid days for STEM activity