Airfield Engineer

Your new role, what’s involved?

Drawing upon extensive and long-standing experience, WSP’s aviation experts plan, design and manage the construction of the airports of tomorrow, with a focus on resilience, sustainability and smart technologies.

We are currently looking for a Civil Engineer to help deliver some of our exciting UK and international engineering projects. The role will require good knowledge and understanding of multi-disciplinary project delivery to join our team of technical experts in the UK. We are open to this role being based in any WSP UK office.

There will be opportunities for international travel to work with overseas Clients and WSP aviation teams worldwide, as well as opportunities to develop your own CPD with full support from the team management and to mentor more junior members of the team.

Responsibilities include:

• Supporting the preparation of technical reports, calculations, drawings and specifications related to the delivery of airfield engineering projects at airports in both the UK and overseas.
• Helping to identify and manage design risks, issues and Request for Information (RFIs).
• Ensuring all deliverables and milestones are achieved to cost/quality/time targets.
• Championing excellent health and safety practice, including safety in design, site visit safety and compliance with CDM regulations.
• Support Project Managers by undertaking project progress monitoring and contributing to the development of appropriate project controls, including change management, information management and document control. 
• Responding to client directions in a professional and customer focused manner and to develop and maintain relationships with clients, peers and others who are influential in providing future business.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• A University degree relevant to civil engineering, construction, design or related discipline
• Experience of delivering civil engineering projects.  It is not a requirement for this to include aviation specific work and can instead include experience on similar projects such as highways, urban realm, maritime ports etc…
• Experience and knowledge of international airfield design standards such as ICAO, CAA, EASA and FAA is preferable but not required.
• Knowledge and experience of using AutoCAD, Civil 3D and any other relevant other engineering design software packages.
• Excellent written, verbal communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Enjoy working in a team environment, sharing ideas and collaborating with colleagues and be able to demonstrate a time when you’ve managed to do this successfully to solve complex problems.
• You’ll have confidence to work under pressure with the ability to prioritise and plan effectively and be able to demonstrate a time when you’ve successfully managed to do this.

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