Assistant Civil Engineer

Job Description

  At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future. One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.  Role description: We currently have the opportunity for Assistant Civil Engineers to join our Civils and Structures team in our York office working on interesting and challenging rail and buildings projects. As a key member of the team, you will apply and develop your engineering skills whilst producing excellent designs for our Rail clients. You will be a key technical team member in the Rail Eastern design team, responsible for and involved in the delivery of project-related tasks to meet budget, time-frame and quality targets, meeting or exceeding client expectations. We will provide professional and personal development which will allow you to progress your career towards chartered status. We will offer you the opportunity to be mentored by industry recognised Technical Leaders who will lend you their experience and ensure that the training you receive will give you the best possible chance of success. Other benefits include membership fees to join your relevant professional body, employer contribution pension scheme, flexible working and a flexible holiday scheme. Role accountabilities: As an Assistant Civil Engineer you will provide design delivery on a variety of structural and civil engineering led multi-disciplinary projects mainly within the Rail environment, but also within the buildings sector. As we operate in a diverse marketplace, you will gain an experience of working on a wide and varied portfolio of projects which will enhance your skills and test your technical knowledge. 

• Collaborate with other team members to deliver project requirements
• Develop an understanding of the business benefits derived from the presence of Global Design and build working relationships with Global Design colleagues
• Work as a project resource, completing allocated activities to meet budget, timeframe and quality objectives and meeting or exceeding client expectations
• Apply analytical and design skills as well as technical writing skills at a project level
• Deliver work that meet client and Arcadis requirements
• Operate as a competent professional within a single area of work with little supervision
• Capable of independently performing routine and some non-routine tasks
• Make technical decisions that are limited to solution rather than end results
• Work on detailed or routine engineering assignments involving calculations and relatively simple tasks.
• Prepare drawings, specifications, reports and other project documentation ensuring accuracy and compliance with Arcadis requirements and relevant national standards and codes of practice
• An understanding of the design of individual elements of a project and how it ultimately interfaces with the client
• Support investigations and analyses to support the development of technical solutions
• Contribute to the resolution of technical issues on projects

 Qualifications & Experience: 

• Degree in Civil or Structural engineering
• Relevant experience preferably structural design and civil engineering in a rail environment
• Ability to work closely with design team members and independently
• Experience in the use of Autodesk or Bentley CAD software
• Able to build and maintain good working relationships with other internal engineering teams
• Working toward Incorporated or Chartered Status of a relevant institution

  Why Become an Arcadian? Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet. We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them. As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate. To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.  Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success. Transform Your World #LI-SW2