Are you passionate about SuDs and looking to take the next steps in your career? We have an opening for a Principal Drainage Engineer to join a leading multidisciplinary design consultancy on a full-time basis.

This is an excellent opportunity to lead the day-to-day technical delivery of civil engineering consultancy services to support their clients through all stages of the project life-cycle from feasibility and concept design through to planning, detailed design, and construction. Experience in client liaison, co-professionals and design teams, and competence in liaising with highway, water, statutory and local authorities to negotiate the necessary outline and detailed technical is vital.

What’s on offer

• Hybrid / Flexible working
• Medical care plan
• Enhanced inhouse training plans and uncapped career progression.
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Bonus schemes
• Chartership support

The role

• You will provide technical expertise in drainage, SuDS, flood risk, highways, streetscape, earthworks and utilities to all types of land, property and infrastructure development projects across all sectors and clients.
• You will provide project leadership on several varied multi-disciplinary projects acting as Project Manager where required.
• You will be supported by a team of experienced and developing technical staff of various grades, to whom you will be expected to provide guidance and support as appropriate.
• You will be involved in high profile client engagement, stakeholder management, design team collaboration (both internal and with other external multidisciplinary professionals), and project management.
• You will be responsible for, or actively engaged in, ensuring your projects are delivered within budget, on programme, and to the required quality for technical and legal compliance.

What you need to succeed

• Postgraduate (or equivalent) experience in the UK and are at least nearing Chartership or have equivalent commercial experience and responsibility.
• Willing to become an ICE Supervising Civil Engineer to assist with training and development of junior members of the team.
• Knowledge of and experience in highway design, drainage strategies and technical design, flood risk assessments and management, utility design and planning as well as a working knowledge of the development sector.
• Design experience; focused on the development sector (drainage, flood risk, highways, earthworks and utilities).
• The ability to produce infrastructure masterplans, site appraisals, technical reports, design calculations and construction drawings.
• Knowledge of the relevant design codes such as Water UK Sewerage Sector Guidance, Design Manual for Roads & Bridges, Manual for Streets, Local Authority Design Guidance, SuDS Manual and are well versed in the preparation of drawings for contract documentation and technical approvals.
• The ability to use or direct and check the use of relevant software including Micro Drainage, Info Drainage, Civils 3D and/or PDS.
• Knowledge of the relevant legal processes, planning, design, design software, technical consents process, adoption and contract procedures for the provision of sewers, SuDS, highways and utilities to new developments and regeneration projects and how if, applied effectively, these skills combine to add value to a client’s development proposal.
• Knowledge of the financial and contractual aspects of planning, bidding, and delivering both large and small projects.