Engineer, Civil Engineering

Keepmoat Homes is a fast growing top 10 UK house builder. We design and build quality homes and create places where people want to live.

Our investment and participation helps transform communities and improves the lives of local people. We have a national presence combined with local knowledge and expertise in all aspects of housing – from finance, design and planning, to developing and building. Our comprehensive skills and capabilities give us a wider perspective across the whole housing lifecycle and we create lower risk ways of building homes people need.

For more than 90 years our work has been absolutely visible to local communities so being part of the community is in our DNA. We hire local suppliers and tradespeople and work with local communities to make sure that our plans meet their needs.

Main purpose of the role

We have an exciting opportunity for an Engineer to join our Yorkshire West region, based from our regional office in Leeds.

As our construction Engineer, you will provide lean but robust engineering strategies as part of an established, successful land and development team. The role will be working primarily with the land team to de-risk bids and support the due diligence process for land acquisition approval. This would include technical reporting and providing strategies for drainage, cut & fill, retaining walls, foundations, and utilities.

Support with groundworks estimating and procurement would also be provided. This would then follow through to supporting planning applications with the necessary technical input and engineering strategy.

External engineers would be utilised where necessary to add detail to the proposed strategy for checking and presentation purposes. The engineering strategy would be handed over to the technical team for the detailed design stage. The role requires the production of accurate value engineered information delivered in line with agreed programmes and budgets. Key capabilities required for this role include :

• Experience of technical and engineering aspects of house building design
• An in-depth understanding of Highway & Sewer Standards
• Substantial experience working within a residential house builder or equivalent
• Experience of leading the engineering strategy and working in a team
• Adding value to engineering solutions
• Understanding of changes to regulations and legislation
• Strong mathematical ability
• Able to analyse complex data and critically evaluate plans
• Good understanding of budget management
• Able to direct external consultants
• An awareness of the social and environmental impact of your work
• Accurate with an eye for detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to work under pressure
• Able to work with a high degree of accuracy
• A methodical approach to working practices
• Confident decision maker with pragmatic approach to problem solving
• Able to influence and persuade others
• A self-starter capable of creating and maintaining momentum in projects
• Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it
• Supporting the land team with the due diligence review and delivery of technical and engineering information required for land appraisals and acquisition.
• Establishing the engineering principles and strategy on all sites.

HS&S Responsibilities:
To take care of your own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by your work and adhere to the Keepmoat Health, Safety and Sustainability standards.

We are looking for an established predevelopment Engineer who embodies our Keepmoat values; passionate about the house building industry, they will work in a straightforward way, possessing strong organisational skills with a good commercial and contractual awareness. They will be creative with a keen eye for detail and ability to process technical information. They will be collaborative, with excellent verbal and written communication skills and a strong negotiator with proven experience in gaining consent on complex technical approvals.

The successful candidate will have previous exposure to a similar role within a UK house builder and be comfortable using engineering related software.

If this sounds like you,…