FORESTRY CIVIL ENGINEER


Location: North East Wales

Grade & Salary: G5, £31,490 rising to £34,902 over three years

Post number: 200347

Type of contract: Permanent

Work pattern: Full time

Closing date: 27th March 2022


Benefits: Civil Service pension, 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, flexible working options, occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes.


Role Purpose

This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-functional Engineering team with a commitment to Sustainable Management of Natural Resources within North East Wales.

The North East Wales Integrated Engineering team is a professional, multi-disciplinary team with responsibility for delivering Civil Engineering maintenance for Forestry and Flood Risk critical assets, in addition to Natural Flood Risk Management, SMNR schemes and Environmental enhancement and coastal projects.

The Engineering team works closely with NRW’s Internal Workforce teams and framework contractors to ensure the annual asset maintenance programmes are produced, coordinated, and delivered to the specified time, quality and cost allocation and constraints.

As Forest Civil Engineer working within the Integrated Engineering team, you will work with colleagues and manage the construction, upgrade & maintenance of road networks and harvesting facilities for the area. You will undertake inspection of roads, footbridges and water management structures ensuring they are fit for purpose to facilitate the land management and forest harvesting requirements.

NRW is a Category One Responder under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, which requires it to be able to deliver a resilient, competent, and effective response to incidents on a 24/7, 365-day basis. Its duties include contributing to and maintaining emergency plans and emergency arrangements in relation to incidents.

It is a requirement of your role to participate in NRW’s incident response activities. This may require you to participate on an incident rota (or cascade), in order to be available to respond to an incident if one occurs.

If you are a professional, target focused individual with a desire to ensure NRW’s corporate goals are achieved, SMNR principles and well-being objectives delivered, we would encourage you to apply for this post and become part of #TeamNRW.


Qualifications and Skills

• Experience in civil engineering contract management & project planning & understanding of NEC3 form of contract.
• Knowledge and understanding of CDM2015 and construction Health, Safety & Environmental risk management.
• Knowledge of forest road construction (wet bound macadam) and of working in a rural/upland environment.
• Knowledge of concrete and timber bridge construction techniques.
• Knowledge of Forest and Water Guidelines (V5) and the European Water Framework Directive.
• Knowledge of the Quarry Regulations (1999) and quarry management procedures.
• Knowledge of CAD packages such as AutoCAD.
• Knowledge of MS Project.
• Knowledge of Project delivery via framework contracts.
• Knowledge and Experience of managing team/individuals.
• Experience of compiling tender documents/drawings.
• Member of professional body e.g. ICE.

Please visit our website to apply: https://naturalresources.wales/.



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Web: https://naturalresources.wales/ | Closing Date:27th March 2022

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