Your impact
Your drainage expertise will help shape how some of the UK's most important transport infrastructure is designed and delivered.
You'll bring technical leadership to complex highway and rail projects, helping teams solve difficult drainage challenges, make sound engineering decisions and deliver designs that are practical, sustainable and built around long-term performance.
Just as importantly, your impact will extend beyond individual projects. You'll help develop engineers around you, strengthen technical capability across the drainage discipline and give clients confidence that they have experienced leadership behind the decisions that matter.
This is an opportunity to use your experience at a broader level: influencing technical direction, improving how projects are delivered and helping develop the people who will become the next generation of drainage specialists.
About the Opportunity
You'll take a leading role in shaping and delivering drainage solutions across complex highway, rail and wider transportation projects, working with major UK infrastructure clients. From early feasibility and optioneering through to detailed design and delivery, you'll provide the technical judgement and leadership needed to solve challenging drainage problems, influence multidisciplinary design decisions and ensure projects deliver practical, sustainable and high-quality outcomes.
Beyond individual projects, you'll have the opportunity to make a wider impact across the drainage team. You'll work closely with clients and technical specialists, provide assurance on complex designs, develop and mentor engineers, and help identify better ways of delivering our work. You'll also contribute to future opportunities through bids and project development, giving you the chance to influence not just how projects are delivered, but how the drainage capability grows.
Here's what you'll need
- Strong professional experience in drainage engineering, particularly within highways, rail or comparable infrastructure environments.
- The technical judgement to lead drainage design and provide assurance on complex projects.
- Experience taking drainage projects or packages through multiple stages of design and delivery.
- Practical knowledge of relevant UK drainage design principles and standards, including DMRB and/or applicable UK rail standards.
- Experience applying SuDS principles to infrastructure projects.
- Experience using, reviewing or technically overseeing appropriate drainage modelling and design tools.
- An understanding of health, safety and risk within engineering design.
- Experience supporting the development of other engineers.
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