This consultancy is looking for a Principal Civil Engineer (Infrastructure) to join their team on a full time, permanent basis. To be considered for this role you will live within a commutable distance to Leeds. You will be joining a growing team, who cares greatly about the development, training and diversity of their growing workforce.

A key trait of our client is that they seek to maintain the family feel of an SME Business even as they grow. They therefore value character, attitude, and commitment. Experience and competence are important, but they look to assess the broader attributes to ensure a good fit for both the candidate and the business. As they grow, they actively embrace and champion diversity within their business and their wider industry with inclusion across all levels.

What's on offer:

• Annual Performance Reviews
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Referral Scheme (up to £5000)
• Professional Fees Paid
• Private Healthcare
• Enhanced pension
• Life assurance scheme
• Critical Illness cover

The role:

• Maintain and develop technical or management capability through CPD, arranging and attending internal and external training seminars regularly and present key points to colleagues.
• Expected to work across different offices where required as part of a multidisciplinary team working on a project and to take direction and instruction from the lead engineer on these projects.
• Provide technical leadership in at least one of the key core skills of the business and hold a solid understanding of other core skills of the business, how they are coordinated with the capability of managing the coordination.
• Ability to manage external resources and suppliers and hold sufficient experience to challenge, where appropriate items such as designs, fees and programme and review terms and conditions.
• Ability to review concept designs and provide value engineering solutions to projects and present the benefits of solutions to clients and the wider design team.
• Understanding of the stages of design and the detailed output required at each stage within your chosen field of expertise.

What you need to succeed:

• Engineer with extensive relevant workplace experience
• Prior knowledge of the full engineering / development process.
• Educated to degree level or HNC level with relevant further learning experience.
• Professionally qualified to IEng level or above with relevant professional body.
• Self-motivated and ambitious.