Civil Engineer

Are you a passionate Civil Engineer eager to contribute to impactful projects? Do you have a foundational understanding of civil design and a desire to grow your expertise in a collaborative environment? Stantec is seeking a talented and motivated Civil Engineer to join our team in Cardiff.

At Stantec, we're dedicated to designing with community in mind. We believe in the power of collaboration and innovation to create sustainable and impactful infrastructure. As a Civil Engineer, you'll play a vital role in delivering high-quality designs for diverse building structure-led developments, including residential, commercial, public sector, and regeneration projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conducting desktop research for site information and mapping, and identifying physical constraints, conditions, and boundaries.
• Collecting and collating project proposals and data from the design team (drawings, reports, statements, dates).
• Outline & Detailed Design:
• Resolving physical constraints.
• Designing site levels.
• Modelling, analysing, laying out, detailing, and scheduling drainage and SuDS.

• Highways: amendments, alignments, sections, schedules, details, standards and technical submission packages

• Selecting external works proposals, specifications, and products.
• Producing construction details, schedules, and specifications.
• Performing earthworks volume assessments and writing technical reports (drainage strategies, technical notes, condition surveys, engineering strategies).
• Preparing technical submission packages e.g. highways S278/38/50 & sewers S104/185, SAB
• Managing document control, coordinating with other design inputs and collaborative/shared models, and updating designs based on feedback.
• Communicating with clients, contractors, design teams, and approving authorities to share information, confirm technical points, and resolve design-related matters.
• Advising on, monitoring, and reporting on timescales for task completion.
• Conducting site visits when required, both to inform design and during construction.

How You'll Contribute

• Assisting with the strategic development of a project's layout, levels, drainage, highways, etc.
• Contributing to 3D proposed levels and earthworks models and assisting with 2D drawing production.
• Identifying, coordinating, and strategizing resolutions for below-ground utilities and obstruction constraints.
• Cost Control - Contributing to cost control through awareness of project budgets/value, value engineering, and reducing task time.
• Delegating drawing work to junior engineers and mentoring junior staff on project tasks, design, and drawing production.
• Participating in project meetings and meetings with approving bodies.
• Assisting with resource planning, timescales, and feedback.
• Monitoring and resolving incoming site queries, design team queries, and requests.

About You:

• A foundational and growing understanding in the design of levels, earthworks, drainage, minor highways, and external works, including the completion of analysis models, calculations, and technical report writing.

• Growing Understanding of:
• Construction: General practice, details, methods, products, materials.
• Project Stages: Typical deliverables, parties involved, and technical processes.
• Approval Processes: Planning, SAB, highway, drainage, flood risk activity permits / ordinary watercourse consent, and other permits.
• Software Proficiency:
• Expertise in: AutoCAD and InfoDrainage
• Awareness and growing capabilities in: Civil 3D, collaborative model platforms, common data environments, project management platforms, and NBS Chorus.

 Why Join us?

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The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities. 

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities. 

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.

At Stantec we want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all. If you need any support or require adjustments to be made then please contact careers.UK&[email protected] we will talk to you about how we can support you.