Closing Date
2025-07-25
Job Overview
As a Principal Civil Engineer, you will be providing technical leadership and guidance to a design team in the delivery of water and wastewater projects. The role involves detailed technical analysis, as well as financial project management and ensuring project delivery. As a leader of schemes, you will be working with Project Design Leads and stakeholders to ensure that delivery, value for money and innovation are brought into the process.
Southern Water are looking for an experienced Principal Civil Engineer to join the Water/Wastewater Infrastructure Civil team based in Falmer, Brighton on a full time basis. This role has a focus on leading a highly skilled team, technical problem solving, data analysis, and decision making. If you have previous Water/Wastewater Infrastructure and Civil Engineering experience then we would love to hear from you.
About You
As a leader of the team, you will have a clear understanding the roles within the team and working co-operatively with other teams to achieve business aims.
The nature of this work will be ideally suited to someone with strong critical thinking and empowered to make decisions and drive resolutions. You will be solutions focussed and excellent in identifying and resolving complex engineering issues, and proactive, demonstrating a high level of initiative. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining projects in accordance with the corporate health and safety, environment and quality standards, and ensuring the project team comply with such standards as you will be providing technical guidance and leadership of the project team. As a good communicator you will be liaising with stakeholders, negotiating and influencing senior internal and external stakeholders
We are particularly keen to hear from people who are excellent communicator, presenting and articulating technical ideas and arguments to both technical experts and lay people.
Package
This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Falmer office and home.
We are offering a salary of up to £75,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:
• Company and performance-related bonus
• Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
• Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
• Health benefits through a Cash Plan
• Two paid community volunteering days a year
• 25 days annual holiday
• Occupational health service
• Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
• We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
Join our Civil Engineering team today and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
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