Location
London
Industry sector
Engineering
Job type
Permanent | Full Time
Job start date
ASAP
Posted date
07/12/2025
Closing date
28/12/2025
Job Title: Associate Civil Engineer
Ref. No.: CJD0612C25
Location: London
Salary: £63,000 - £68,000
This is a rare opportunity to join my client, an newly-established, innovative Multidisciplinary Consultancy, currently in the process of developing themselves as market-leaders in the Water and wider Civil Engineering sectors. As a recently-established consultancy, they are proactively seeking a talented, determined Associate Civil Engineer with extensive knowledge of drainage and non-infrastructure design who is willing to win, manage, and successfully deliver on a wide array of challenging projects within the sector. You will effectively build and develop a newly-established team of engineering design professionals, based in the diverse, richly-cultural Capital City of London.
Benefits for the role of Associate Civil Engineer include (but are not limited to):
- Competitive salary (commensurate with qualifications, skills, and experience)
- Employee Pension Scheme
- Generous annual leave entitlement with flexible working opportunities
- Life Insurance
- Dedication to your Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Opportunities to win and deliver a number of diverse engineering projects across the region and beyond
- Proactively influencing the company's development
Responsibilities for the role of Associate Civil Engineer include:
- Delivering a wide array of projects and developments
- Overseeing a newly-established team of Civil Engineering professionals, mentoring them whilst encouraging their Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Leading all aspects of design projects, including budgeting, resourcing, scheduling, and successful delivery/implementation
- Proactively working to win both infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects, alike
- Managing important professional relations with clients and other stakeholders, across the public and private sectors
- Preparing, checking, and submitting technical documents, including reports, specifications, drawings, calculations, and more
- Continually enforcing company policies, procedures, and best practice
- Upholding the appropriate health and safety standards at all times
- Contributing to the company's business development strategies, acting as a trusted, go-to representative during client meetings, site visits, etc.
Required skills and experience for the role of Associate Civil Engineer include:
- A Degree in Civil Engineering (or a cognate discipline)
- Chartered Status with a recognised Professional Body (e.g., ICE, CIWEM, etc.)
- Extensive experience of working in a design capacity, within a UK-based consultancy
- Demonstrable experience of working with water-based projects
- Experience of detailed drainage and civil engineering design
- Well-versed in the use of various software packages (such as Revit, AutoCAD, etc.)
- Considerable experience of producing, checking, and amending technical documents for submission
- Prior experience of managing projects and people within the sector
- Extensive experience of managing client and stakeholder relations
- Confidence in winning diverse projects across the region, and delivering these to the highest of standards
- Outstanding organisation, time management, team leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Possess a full, valid UK driving licence
Desirable skills and experience for the role of Associate Civil Engineer include:
- A Higher Degree in a relevant discipline
- Experience of having worked on water-based non-infrastructure design projects (e.g., reservoirs, water treatment works, etc.)
- Experience of authoring Flood Risk Assessments
- Experience of Sustainable Drainage Design (SuDS)
- Experience of working in a public-facing role
If you are interested in the role of Associate Civil Engineer, please do not hesitate to contact Caroline Davis at Penguin Recruitment. Please also see our website for a range of other roles currently available. This is a permanent role. Penguin Recruitment is operating as a recruitment agency in respect to this vacancy.