Principal Engineer Highway/ Parking- Edinburgh

Job Description

Principal Engineer: Highway/ ParkingEdinburghProject Centre, part of Marston Holdings, is a leading design, engineering, and landscape architecture consultancy whose highly talented people are passionate about creating places that are attractive, innovative, sustainable, and safe. Our approach to integrateddesign produces award winning results that have won international recognition and named CIHTs Employer of the Year in 2021. Led by a forward-thinking management team we work together in multi-disciplinary teams that provide services that are well thought-outand sustainable.We are currently looking for a Principal Engineer to join our team based in Edinburgh. You will join a vibrant team and work on wide variety of projects across Scotland and the North of the UK, enabling you to advance your career, whilst giving youthe freedom to achieve personal growth and development. We will provide you with the opportunities to enable you to succeed and support your ambitions.We recognise our greatest strength is the people we employ, and we are committed to developing talent and providing staff with the skills and knowledge they need to not only do their job well now, but to equip them for life as their careers unfold. Our staffsay our people and our diversity are our biggest strengths and our Equality and Inclusion Group and Womens Network are ensuring that inclusion is at the heart of our policies, processes, and practices. As standard we offer flexible working to everyone andthe ability to work remotely when needed. Project Centre is a people focused organisation. We care about our colleagues and part of that is to help every employee to achieve a healthy work-life balance.If you aspire to really making a difference and want to work with great colleagues whilst advancing your career, then Project Centre could be the place for you.Although not exhaustive, the position requires post holders to undertake the following:

• Lead the technical delivery of projects and management of junior members of the team regionally and across virtual teams.
• Develop business development activities and initiatives and pursue opportunities that raise the regional and company profile.
• Act as Account Manager for key clients and maximise opportunities for new business through marketing and client relationships.
• Support the identification and securing of new works, leading the preparation of commercial bids, open tenders and proposals
• Support Client and stakeholder engagement / supply chain interface
• Lead the management and delivery of projects, create and maintain project programmes to ensure time and budget compliance.
• Manage and control project budgets provide accurate financial reporting and overall quality control
• Actively plan and manage project resources to provide effective and efficient delivery and manage personal professional development and the development of others
• Working across organisational boundaries, deliver projects effectively and support other Project Centre employees with technical advice on built environment projects.
• Effective liaison and or consultation with statutory authorities or undertakers as necessary to enable design and construction.
• Effective team and one to one management of direct reports (including undertaking performance reviews) and be managerial and technical lead on multiple projects.
• Be accountable for the quality of all team outputs and deliverables, taking appropriate action to rectify quality issues and manage performance of team members.
• Assist in the recruitment and development of skilled staff resources to meet customer expectations and business growth plans.
• Contribute to the implementation of company initiatives and attend and contribute towards regular service management meetings.

Our ideal candidate will have but not be limited to:

• Accredited degree in Civil Engineering (or equivalent) and Masters is beneficial.
• Chartered or actively working towards Chartered status (ICE, CIHT or equivalent)
• Knowledge of contract procurement, budgeting and NEC Project Management Accreditation or equivalent
• Demonstrable engineering experience working within local authority and or private sector.
• In depth understanding of highway, parking and traffic and transport-oriented design and design standards within urban, rural, public realm, and the civil engineering-built environment
• Experience of Industry standards, codes and regulations, including: DMRB, Conditions of Contract, MCHW, CDM, Health and Safety and Industry Best Practice
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of developing feasibility, and preliminary designs to solve parking and local roads problems including Alignment, Drainage, Pavement, Road Restraint System, Traffic Restrictions, Road Signs & Markings.
• Experience in the design of walking & cycling schemes, traffic calming, Healthy Streets, junction design, carriageway renewal and parking solutions.
• Working knowledge of Civils 3D for highway design, MS Project, AutoCAD and industry standard software.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to communicate technical, financial and project matters at all levels with suppliers, clients, contractors, the public and other engineers within PCL
• Ability to lead projects, teams and support junior members such as CAD Technicians & Engineering Graduates.
• Ability to determine appropriate solutions, innovate and add value
• Proven ability to produce highways and traffic related design deliverables including IFT and IFC documents and drawings, and provide technical checks prior to issue

In return for your hard-work and commit:

• £Negotiable and subject to experience
• 27 days annual leave + Bank Holidays!
• Private Health Care
• Continuous training and development
• Yearly Professional Membership of your choice
• Flexible working policy
• company organised social functions!
• Group Benefits