Civil Engineer - Nature Recovery

Job summary

What you’ll do…

You will support the delivery of Yorkshire Forest District’s Biodiversity and Resilience Programmes by planning, specifying, managing and delivering (through external contractors) civil engineering maintenance and construction works. From forest roads to bridges, access tracks to railway crossings no two projects will be the same and your skills will be a vital part of our Nature Recovery Team.

You will collaborate, engage, advise and work with internal stakeholders to deliver these works, whilst meeting legal, health and safety, environmental and policy obligations.

Please see the job description below for more information and details about what we need from you.

Where you’ll work…

The post will initially be based at Forestry England’s Yorkshire Office in Pickering. It will move to the Dalby Forest Office in autumn/winter 2027. Regular travel around Forestry England’s estate in Yorkshire will be required. There will be occasional trips outside of Yorkshire for Forestry England-wide meetings, which may require an overnight stay.

You will be required to react to call outs to site during working hours on any day and therefore you must be a reasonable commuting distance from the office or willing to relocate.

Job description

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Champion a safe working environment and be a role model for high standards of health and safety by effectively managing staff and contractors working on Forestry England land.
• Plan and deliver a programme of civil engineering works across the district to support the biodiversity and resilience project with consideration of the wider district civil engineering programme.
• Build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders and develop project scopes and associated costings.
• procure civil engineering works using existing frameworks or other established procedures.
• You will be a contract manager, including developing and administering contracts.
• Have pre-commencement meetings with contractors, meeting Forestry England’s policies and procedures.
• Review or prepare risk assessments, method statements and other health and safety documents for projects, so they comply with specification, environmental and health & safety standards.
• Regularly monitor and record contractor health and safety and environmental performance; pro-actively manage H&S and environmental issues; promptly report accidents and near misses and make sure that lessons learned are shared and implemented.
• Support the senior/principal civil engineer with the planning, designing, and delivering higher-risk and more complex projects.
• Create minor designs meeting Forestry England and industry standards.
• Monitor, record and manage carbon emissions. Sharie and implement best practice to help achieve Forestry England’s net zero targets.
• When you are trained and experienced, inspect assets to assess and report on their condition. Keep asset records up to date.
• Use Forester Web to produce contract maps and update civil engineering asset data.
• Support for National communication outputs as and when required.

And any other tasks, reasonably requested by your line manager.

Person specification

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Essential Professional and Technical experience

• experience working in a civil engineering role, including works planning, design, or contract supervision.
• experience in working as part of an effective team and with internal and external stakeholders.
• experienced of designing and safely delivering civil engineering construction projects, including a good understanding of the construction design and management regulations and other applicable health and safety legislation.
• competent IT user with experience in MS Office suite of applications.
• clear and confident spoken and written communications skills.

Desirable professional and technical experience

• civil engineering experience in a forestry or rural environment and applying ecologically sensitive best practice.
• experience using GIS software or other mapping systems.
• experience of using computer aided design software, such as AutoCAD or Civils 3D.

Qualifications

Essential

• 3 A levels
• HNC/HND in Civil Engineering
• Full UK Driving Licence

Desirable

• CITB Site Supervisors Safety Training Scheme or IOSH Managing Safely qualification.

Qualifications

• 3 A levels
• HNC/HND in Civil Engineering
• Full UK Driving Licence

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £33,854, Forestry Commission contributes £9,807 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

How to apply…

You will be asked to write a 200 word statement on your relevant experience and career history, along with a personal statement of no more than 500 words. You will be assessed on both during sifting. More details about how to apply are listed on the application form.

The Behaviours being assessed at interview are –

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions

If candidates pass the interview but are not the leading candidate they can be placed on a reserve list. We may offer candidates on the reserve list for this role the opportunity to be considered for other roles at the same or lower pay bands.

In the event of a high volume of applications, a pre-sift may be carried out.

Successful candidates will undergo a criminal record check and the government baseline personnel security standard check.

If you require any reasonable adjustments, please email fcrecruitmentteam@forestryengland.uk.

If you're planning to use AI to support your application, please ensure you've read our guidelines here first.

Read more about our application process and working with us on the Forestry England website.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : FC Recruitment Team
• Email : fcrecruitmentteam@forestryengland.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : fcrecruitmentteam@forestryengland.uk

Further information

Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment on the basis of fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles.If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact FCE by email: englandhr.services@forestryengland.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.

Attachments

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