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Infrastructure Engineer (M/F) – Sector 4

The Société du Canal Seine-Nord Europe (SCSNE), a local public establishment, is in charge of public project management of the future large-gauge 107 kilometer canal, an essential link in the major European waterway project called Seine-Escaut.

SCSNE is a young company (operational since 2017), dynamic, on a human scale, now with more than 90 employees who, each in their field of expertise, participate in the management and coordination of a major European project combining safety, performance, respect for the environment and innovation. 

Joining the SCSNE means joining a team that works collectively for the success of this project!

Sector 4, the northernmost sector of the project, extends over a length of approximately 28 km crossing the departments of Pas-de-Calais and Nord. It includes within its perimeter the re-establishment of the A2 motorway and the crossing over the A26 as well as 13 road re-establishments, a large wildlife crossing, the inland port of Marquion-Cambrai managed by the joint syndicate of inland ports, the backfilling of the Canal du Nord over approximately 7 km, and is characterized by significant earthworks (more than 30 million m3 of spoil), 3 km of lagoon banks.

The amount of work in this sector is estimated at around 700 million euros. This sector will be composed of 2 main TOARCs.

You are the first-level representative of the project management, both internally and externally, within the scope assigned to you and the associated interfaces. You contribute to project management in terms of costs, deadlines, technical performance, sustainable development, safety, and risks.

Your mission

Your activities are structured around the following main areas:

  • Contribute to the preparation of consultations or purchase orders for services and works
  • Supervise, as project owner, the execution of services or works with the support of the AMO operations manager or the project manager
  • Ensure coordination with other internal and external stakeholders, in particular other project owners or infrastructure managers, in support of the Sector Management
  • In connection with the management of AMO operations, particularly supervise the planning and implementation of administrative procedures, either in-house (DICT, demolition permits, building permits, site decontamination, etc.), or in conjunction with the land department or the environmental authorization department.
  • Contribute to the release of rights of way, to the coordination of the various stakeholders involved and to the supervision of the corresponding land services
  • Contribute to compliance with regulatory environmental requirements; in particular by anticipating the implementation of measures on the ground
  • Ensure that its AMOs and MOEs apply the SCSNE's cross-functional policies: quality approach, safety-health-environment, purchasing policies, use of tools in use at SCSNE (EDM, GIS, BIM, etc.)
  • Ensure control of costs, deadlines, risks, performance and quality of purchased services as well as final products
  • Assist the Sector Director, within his/her scope, in preparing reporting elements on behalf of the SCSNE Board of Directors and preparing files for project stage reviews
  • Represent and defend the interests of the SCSNE on a technical level with external partners (local authorities, project owners, developers, state services, etc.)
  • Supervise the execution of the work. Depending on the selected lot and upon designation by the Sector Director, you may be a contract manager for work lots
  • Contribute in particular to the acceptability of the project among local residents and partners in the territories, and represent the sector management at public meetings, or any other meeting with local residents, partners, associations
  • Contribute to reception operations

 

This position, based in Lille, is open to teleworking 2 days per week.

Travel to be planned in the Hauts-de-France region.

Participation in technical on-calls.

Your profile

A Bac +5 engineering or Master's level in civil engineering, public works, large-scale earthworks or geotechnics.

Knowledge of project management, planning, coordination and project management would be an asset.

In addition to your skills in major projects, you have the essential knowledge for practicing public procurement.

Rigorous, endowed with an excellent capacity for synthesis and editorial fluency, you appreciate teamwork and in matrix mode.

How to apply

Recruitment pathway

CDI under private law – framework status – SYNTEC collective agreement

Employment also accessible to civil servants through secondment (category A)

Contact

Send your application (CV + cover letter) exclusively in PDF or JPEG format to: recruitment@scsne.fr under the reference: DT-ITIS4-2025-04

Joining the SCSNE means participating in the realization of a regional project with a European dimension combining economic growth and sustainable development by integrating a team of competent and motivated professionals.