Lead Civil Engineer - SPA

Mott Mac Donald Bentley are recruiting for a Lead Civil Engineer to join the Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA).

The 330km Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) Project by Anglian Water is under construction and will be completed during AMP
8. Beyond this we have a further 260km of water transfer pipelines and associated infrastructure to be delivered in AMP
8.

You will be embedded within the SPA engineering team responsible for the delivery of the detailed design output. You will monitor workload and liaise with Design Leads and other discipline designers alongside this role. In your section, you will be responsible for design output, information flow and consistency of approach.

Within your immediate team, you will lead the detailed design elements of pipelines, pump stations, or break tank design. Other design elements, typically associated with a Non-Infrastructure site, would include drainage, highway design and security fencing, although each scheme will have its own design challenges, so an understanding of a variety of civil engineering disciplines is helpful.

• Understand the Health, Safety and Environmental issues of the scheme design and deliver the necessary mitigations to ensure the well-being of individuals, workplace safety and minimise environmental impacts.
• Take ownership to deliver design and associated activities in your section of the SPA programme of works.
• Work closely with the Client, understanding the project requirements and the ability to challenge Client asset standards/proven designs where applicable.
• Understand the importance of design interactions with delivery, procurement and commercial teams.
• Work closely with team members to ensure project requirements are met.
• Involvement in the interfaces with our GI, Utilities and Environmental teams.
• Mentoring graduate engineers in developing technical knowledge and understanding.

• To join the team, you'll hold an engineering degree or equivalent, and ideally be Chartered in an engineering background.
• Demonstrate experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams, undertaking design of various civil engineering structures, ideally within the Water Industry.
• Experienced at supporting Engineering teams with pioneering ideas to gain efficiencies.
• Strong technical understanding of civils Non-Infrastructure design.
• Comfortable in using MS office suite and relevant engineering design software packages, and confident in the utilisation of British Standards and Eurocodes.
• Have the to interpret ground investigation reports to enable you to design the correct solution.

Our ambition is to build a more inclusive environment. We are committed to celebrating and promoting diversity.

Here at SPA we are looking for extraordinary people who want to help create a place where everyone can thrive and where people are excited to be part of the team. So, whatever your background and however you identify, please apply if you think this role was made for you.

• MMB match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues including our annual bonus schemes.
• Payment of annual professional institution subscription costs.

• A minimum of 33 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays, with the ability to buy, sell or carry over annual leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Access to Life Assurance / Private Medical Insurance / Critical Illness Insurance and Health Screening options.
• We are happy to talk openly about flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.
• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave plus the option for shared parental leave.
• Up to 2 paid…