Civil Engineer

Civil Engineer

Location: Cheltenham
Department: Infrastructure / Civil Engineering
Job Type: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent

Opportunity for a Civil Engineer to join a growing team in Cheltenham

This is an excellent opportunity for a Civil Engineer to join a collaborative, multidisciplinary consultancy where people, culture, and quality of work genuinely come first.

The business invests heavily in its people and builds long-term partnerships with clients and stakeholders, resulting in meaningful, high-quality projects that positively shape the built environment. Core values centre around collaboration, wellbeing, and celebrating success as a team.

The Cheltenham office is a flagship workspace, designed to support both productivity and wellbeing. The office benefits from excellent natural light, views across Cheltenham, a large kitchen and social space opening onto a sun terrace, on-site gym and showers, bike storage, meeting rooms and breakout areas. Around 40 professionals are based here across civil engineering, transport planning, water environment, landscape architecture and business services, creating a highly collaborative and social environment.

What you'll be doing

• Preparing drainage strategies and engineering reports to support planning applications
  

• Producing technical drawings including sketch and preliminary highway designs, drainage and external works layouts
  

• Delivering ground modelling, S104, S278 and S38 designs through to technical approval
  

• Mentoring and supporting junior team members
  

• Liaising with clients, stakeholders and wider project teams
  

• Undertaking site visits when required
  

• Obtaining third-party information such as utility searches and background drawings
  

• Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary design team
  

This is primarily a desk-based role with occasional site visits, offering strong technical exposure alongside a supportive team environment.

What you'll bring

• Experience in civil / development infrastructure design
  

• Ability to prepare drainage strategies, reports and technical drawings
  

• Knowledge of S104, S278 and S38 processes
  

• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
  

• A proactive approach to project delivery and teamwork
  

Rewarding you

• Competitive salary, dependent on experience
  

• Industry-leading annual leave:
  

• 25 days annual leave
  

• Your birthday off
  

• Christmas to New Year closure
  

• Additional day for every three years' service (up to five extra days)
  

• 4% employer pension contribution
  

• Life assurance
  

• Comprehensive wellbeing package including Cycle to Work scheme, paid charity days, Employee Assistance Programme and regular social events
  

Being inclusive

The business is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all backgrounds. Diversity is valued, and flexibility or adjustments are supported to help everyone perform at their best.

If you're a Civil Engineer looking for your next step, please don't hesitate to get in touch for a confidential conversation:

Michael Finch
(phone number removed)

Aldwych Consulting values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

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