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Your impact
As a Senior Drainage Engineer, you’ll play a key role in delivering sustainable, high‑quality drainage solutions across highways, urban environments, and aviation infrastructure. With a strong technical foundation and experience in hydraulic modelling and drainage design software, you’ll support our discipline leads and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across the UK and Global Delivery Centres.
You’ll contribute to the design and development of major infrastructure projects across Leeds, Manchester, Warrington, and the wider North West—delivering high‑quality drainage and flood mitigation solutions for highways and urban environments as part of the SDF framework. With a strong technical foundation and chartered status, you’ll guide multidisciplinary teams and act as a trusted advisor to key clients, supporting local authorities and major stakeholders across the region.
In this role, you will
* Deliver drainage designs across all project stages, from feasibility studies to detailed design and contract documentation.
* Collaborate with colleagues across offices and disciplines to ensure integrated and efficient project delivery.
* Support client engagement and represent Jacobs in meetings and site inspections.
* Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.
* Work flexibly from London or Manchester, with regular presence in the office or on client sites.
Qualifications
* A degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline.
* Chartered Engineer status or actively working towards chartership.
* Experience in drainage design for highways and urban environments.
* Experience with hydraulic modelling and drainage design software.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with client‑facing experience.
* Thorough understanding of DMRB, local authority standards, Sewerage Sector Guidance, and the SuDS Manual.
* Experience working with local councils, LLFAs, and water authorities.
* Proficiency in drainage modelling software and tools.
* Working knowledge of health and safety legislation.
Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom.
We value collaboration and believe that in‑person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations to deliver their best work. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits, and opportunities, from well‑being benefits to our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place.
As a disability confident employer, we will interview disabled candidates who best meet the criteria. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.
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