Senior Principal Civil Engineer

Job Description

AtkinsRéalis one of the worlds leading providers of engineering professional consulting and support services with offices across Ireland.

We are seeking a Senior / Principal Civil Engineer to be based in our Dublin office. The successful candidate will work in a civil engineering team within a multidisciplinary office and shall work on varied projects. Our current workload in building and site development projects includes Education Residential Healthcare Industrial Commercial and Energy Sectors for both public and private civil engineering team typically designs the foul surface water and watermain layouts for the above sectors and manages all civil engineering aspects from inception to completion. This team has a good working knowledge of traffic and roads design and leans on the specialist Highways and Traffic team within AtkinsRealis for detailed input where candidate should be self-motivated enthusiastic hardworking flexible willing to take responsibility and comfortable working as part of team.

Duties will include:

• Acting as a Lead Civil Engineer as part of Multidisciplinary Design Teams.
• Design input and oversight of the delivery of all Civil aspects of projects with a focus on drainage and watermain design and a good knowledge of basic road design principles.
• Preparation of project reports (Planning Tender Construction Stage) with an ability to communicate complex technical matters with crystal clear clarity.
• Communication of design intent via PowerPoint presentations.
• Preparation of fee proposals and site specific quality response submissions for design contracts with public sector clients.
• Communication with internal and external parties via email.
• Oversight of preparation of design drawings for planning tender and construction purposes.
• Preparation of design calculations for internal and external review.
• Undertaking duties of Ancillary Certifier for the Civil engineering discipline on building projects (external works drainage watermain etc).
• Financial management of design budgets.
• Supervising and mentoring other civil engineers who will be reporting into the successful candidate.
• Manage both personal workload and the work load of a small team of civil engineers who will report into the candidate.

Desirable skills/attributes:

• Chartered Engineer with Engineers Ireland or equivalent (overseas Charterships ideally subject to Mutual Recognition with Engineers Ireland however consideration will be given to other Charterships not subject to EI MRA).
• Good communication and interpersonal skills and have the ability to prioritise and manage personal and team workload effectively.
• Experience in delivery of drainage design in Causeway or Micro-drainage.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite.
• Experience in use of Autotrack software.
• Experience acting as Lead Project Civil engineer on multi-disciplined projects (meeting attendance with clients and other design team members etc).

About Us:

At AtkinsRéalis we put Environment Sustainability and Health & Safety at the heart of our business strategy. We possess a significant breadth of knowledge and depth of skills and experience for the ultimate benefit of our clients. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Together with our clients were always striving to find better ways to get things done. We are a certified CPD Accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2021.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves thrive and help embed inclusion for all from day one we offer a range of family friendly inclusive employment policies flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer we value applications from all backgrounds cultures and ability.

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At AtkinsRéalis we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender ethnic or national origin sexual identity and orientation age religion or disability but enriches itself through these differences.