Principal Technician

Job DescriptionAre you seeking a professional environment where your technical skills and expertise can shape civil engineering outcomes?Our client, a leading consultancy, is offering a skilled and experienced Principal Technician a permanent position within their forward-thinking organisation. The chosen professional will be operating on a hybrid basis, working three days a week from our client's main office near Portsmouth. Expand your portfolio of works across a variety of complex civil engineering projects within a highly supportive environment.-Competitive salary (subject to experience).-Company pension scheme, hybrid working arrangement, generous annual leave, and ongoing career development opportunities.Responsibilities:-Oversee the development of detailed drawings, calculations, documentation, and project specifications across a variety of civil engineering projects.-Manage project delivery across a variety of professional teams, ensuring regulations, design standards, and client requirements are being followed and maintained.-Conduct site visits, reviews, and inspections, ensuring that all project works comply with design intent, whilst monitoring and updating risk and design assessments.-Ensure accurate and efficient project delivery by coordinating and working with other technicians, engineers, planners, and other multidisciplinary project parties. -Mentor and guide junior engineers and technicians, nurturing progression, development, and performance quality assurance.Requirements: -Extensive demonstratable experience as a Principal Technician, or a similar position, delivering and overseeing a variety of projects, across a range sectors.-Proficient in the use of relevant design software tools, such as AutoCAD, Microdrainage, Civil3D, and Site3D.-Significant understanding of civil engineering design standards, and key industry principles, regulations, legislation, and codes.-Strong understanding of design, detailing, specification development, and drawing production, with an ability to manage multiple concurrent projects effectively.-Effective communication, organisational, and leadership skills, with a maintained proactive problem-solving mindset, and a drive for business development and growth