The flood risk and coastal management engineering team have delivered substantial flood alleviation and drainage design projects at Godalming, Pocklington, Keadby, York and Kendal for schemes worth over £200M. The schemes involve flood defence walls, large pumping station upgrades and creation of a 1 million cu.m flood impoundment storage area. Several of the schemes have received awards for the innovative designs. We have recently been awarded additional flood alleviation works in the north of England and south Wales.

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of our expansion process to help Capita REI maintain and grow our position as a leading supplier of engineering and environmental services within the UK.

What you’ll be doing:

As part of your role you will take responsibility for providing technical expertise and leading technical delivery on a wide variety of projects,

• Including asset assessment and management plans
• Option appraisal, detailed design of civil engineering works and if desired site supervision.
• Ownership of technical delivery ensuring high quality standards and working with project managers to ensure delivery to budget and programme.
• You will also be responsible for ensuring the projects you deliver take due regard for the latest Health, Safety and Welfare policies and practices, including working in accordance with the Construction, Design and Management (CDM) Regulations 2015.

What we’re looking for:

As the successful candidate, you will hold a BEng/MEng in a related Engineering field with significant experience in civil, structural or hydraulic engineering.  You will be chartered with a relevant institution (ICE/IStructE) or be able to demonstrate significant progress of working towards chartership. You will be required to drive on behalf of the company to visit clients/sites etc. and therefore a valid UK driving license is essential.

Additional Experience

• Client Relationship Management and Business Development skills
• Hydraulic analysis, including weirs and gates discharge capacity; hydraulic jumps; drainage design; scour protection, flood storage, etc.
• Design of flood defenses: such as retaining walls; earth embankments; soft engineering solutions (NFM/SuDS); flood gates etc.
• Planning and undertaking asset inspections, including the preparation of safe systems of work
• Site supervision, including CITB SMSTS qualification
• Finite element modelling using structural analysis packages such as LUSAS or SAP
• AutoCAD/Civil3D
• Use of Micro Drainage to assist with drainage and SuDS Design

About Capita Real Estate and Infrastructure

At Capita Real estate and infrastructure, we create places where people can prosper.

Today, critical infrastructure and public building projects need to be sustainable and environmentally appropriate. They must deliver value for the people that will use them - local communities and businesses - for decades to come. The wide range of demands requires a more holistic approach to design. That’s where we come in.

Our clients rely on our commitment to understanding their challenges and finding smarter solutions, and a broad range of experts offering a distinctively diverse set of skills. Our leadership team, who are practitioners themselves, understand what it takes to deliver.

Our culture is built on over 100 years of delivering excellence and creating solutions for critical infrastructure challenges. This enables us to provide a different perspective and approach; one based on what our clients need and can afford.

From engineering and architectural innovation to environmental sustainability and technologically enabled project delivery, we are renowned for our breadth of expertise and holistic, collaborative approach.

We’re a unique team specializing in infrastructure and buildings; the physical networks which keep the country moving and the places where people and communities can prosper.

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive basic salary
• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave.
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice.
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks and plenty more.
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology.
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform.

You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita.

You’ll be joining a network of 63,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

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What we hope you’ll do next:

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We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you’ll be asked to share your personal characteristics and data with us. This helps us understand our audience so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.