Civil Engineer - Nature Recovery
| Posting date: | 12 May 2026 |
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| Salary: | £33,854 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 June 2026 |
| Location: | YO18 7EL |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 461091/1 |
Summary
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.
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.
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