Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
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.

Experience
Strong professional experience in drainage engineering, particularly within highways, rail or comparable infrastructure environments. Proven technical judgement to lead drainage design and provide assurance on complex projects. Experience managing 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. Proficiency in using, reviewing or technically overseeing appropriate drainage modelling and design tools. Understanding of health, safety and risk within engineering design. Experience supporting the development of other engineers.

About you
Leadership skills with the ability to mentor and develop engineering teams. Strong communication skills to work effectively with clients and multidisciplinary teams. Proactive and innovative mindset to identify improvements in delivery and capability growth.

Qualifications
Relevant engineering qualifications and professional accreditation are expected, aligned with senior technical leadership roles in drainage engineering.