# Principal Engineer / Associate – Construction & Buildability Advisory

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Leeds, West Yorkshire
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP seeks a Principal Engineer / Associate – Construction & Buildability Advisory to join the Leeds Roads team.

You will support technical delivery and design coordination to help ensure designs are practical and deliverable on site. Working closely with design teams, clients, and delivery partners, you will apply a strong “right first time” approach , reviewing designs for constructability, identifying constraints early, and ensuring outputs are clear and unambiguous.

Responsibilities:

- Undertake design assurance and buildability reviews

- Identify site constraints and construction risks

- Consider alternative and innovative design solutions

- Support CDM design compliance

- Identify safety issues and residual risks

- Assess construction strategy, phasing, and programme durations

- Provide technical reports

- Liaise with internal design teams, clients, and delivery stakeholders

Requirements:

- Experience in delivering major highways and civil engineering projects

- Demonstrable construction/contracting exposure

- Ability to provide robust constructability assurance and contractor-focused assessment

- Experience in developing construction phasing plans, traffic management plans, and construction programmes

- Strong understanding of CDM and design risk management

- Good communication, client management, and interpersonal skills

- Chartered Civil Engineer or Incorporated Engineer

## Skills

### Required
- construction
- buildability
- design assurance
- CDM
- project management
- communication

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