Engineering Manager in Maidenhead

Engineering Manager

Competitive salary
Thames Valley

Our privately owned, award-winning housebuilder are looking for an Engineering Manager reporting to the Technical Director, to take on the role of its principal in-house civil engineering specialist. With a long and established history of delivering bespoke, residential developments across the South East, our quality-focused client offers the reassurance of a financially strong organisation. For an experienced residential engineering professional, the opportunity lies in the scope to influence practical engineering decisions from initial land assessments through to completed developments.

Role Purpose

Taking up a newly created role within the Technical team, you will enhance the company’s in-house engineering capability throughout the development lifecycle. Your expertise will guide land acquisitions, planning strategies, design development and construction delivery, highlighting technical risks at an early stage and translating complex constraints into practical, cost-effective solutions. Collaborating with colleagues across Land, Planning, Technical, Commercial and Construction, you will contribute detailed knowledge of drainage, highways, utilities, levels, earthworks and ground conditions. The position brings together technical oversight and commercial judgement to ensure engineering proposals are sound, achievable and suited to each development.

Key Responsibilities

• Land acquisition: advise on the civil engineering aspects of prospective land purchases, assessing topography, existing infrastructure, utilities, flood risk, drainage, ground conditions and highways access
• Technical risk: contribute to land bids by assessing technical risks, providing engineering advice and preparing relevant budgets
• Planning: collaborate with the Land and Planning teams on planning strategies, help shape site layouts and assist with planning applications, drainage capacity checks and negotiations concerning highways, drainage and infrastructure
• Engineering design: manage the preparation of highway designs, drainage strategies, levels strategies, earthworks assessments, utility layouts and external works designs
• Consultant management: determine when external engineering support is needed, agree suitable scopes, fees and timescales, and ensure consultants provide practical, commercially viable solutions
• Value engineering: seek opportunities to refine engineering solutions and lower costs while maintaining quality and deliverability
• Infrastructure and adoption: lead the preparation of design information needed for Sectional Agreements and oversee the engineering aspects of the adoption process
• Construction support: collaborate with Construction teams to address engineering and infrastructure challenges, assess design changes and assist with infrastructure and utilities delivery
• Site inspections: carry out site inspections to assess and sign off civil engineering and infrastructure works
• Verification: coordinate the compilation and preparation of engineering verification reports
• Continuous improvement: share technical knowledge and encourage best practice to further develop civil engineering expertise within the Technical team

Requirements

• Degree, HNC or HND in Civil Engineering or a related discipline
• Demonstrable civil engineering experience within residential housebuilding or development
• Substantial experience overseeing utility procurement
• Thorough knowledge of residential infrastructure design, highways, drainage, utilities and ground engineering
• Experience overseeing engineering consultants and external design teams
• Well-developed analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on practical, commercially viable solutions
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to balance multiple projects and priorities
• Comfortable collaborating with Land, Planning, Technical, Commercial and Construction teams
• A proactive attitude to recognising technical risks and developing effective solutions
• An interest in developments across the industry, emerging technologies, legislation and best practice in residential development and infrastructure design

What's on offer

• The reassurance of joining a financially strong, privately owned business
• Competitive salary
• Discretionary annual and long-term bonus scheme
• Enhanced pension scheme via salary exchange
• Private medical cover
• Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days

To put your residential civil engineering expertise to work in a principal in-house role, influencing developments from land acquisition to completion, apply today.