Hours: 37.5 hours per week — some flexibility on hours available if desired. We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
Overview
Drainage and Water Senior Engineer, you'll be working within the Drainage Team, delivering high-quality, compliant, and sustainable discipline-specific drainage & water solutions across a range of projects. Acting as Design Lead under the Design Team Leader, you will ensure programme, budget, and risk commitments are met through clear and effective communication. The role includes line management of up to two graduates or apprentices, mentoring the wider team, contributing to technical development, and supporting continuous improvement of team practices and delivery standards.
Responsibilities
* Delivering coordinated, compliant, and sustainable drainage & water designs in line with relevant standards, regulations, and client requirements
* Acting as design lead for assigned work packages, managing technical risks and contributing to quality assurance and design reviews
* Managing day-to-day delivery of work packages, ensuring programme, budget, and risk commitments are met, escalating issues where required
* Working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams, internal stakeholders, and external partners to support integrated and efficient design delivery
* Providing line management and mentoring to early-career engineers and contributing to technical development, knowledge sharing, and team capability, supporting consistent application of processes, standards, and best practice to improve ways of working and technical quality
* Professional engineering accreditation or working towards CEng / IEng
* Demonstrated experience delivering drainage & water design packages with a high degree of technical autonomy across one or more sectors (e.g. Building & Development, Transportation, Water Utilities, Flood & Water Management), with the ability to manage the technical delivery of work packages, including programme awareness, cost control input, and proactive risk management
* Experience working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams and engaging effectively with internal and external stakeholders, track record of producing and reviewing high-quality, compliant engineering outputs in line with relevant standards, regulations, and quality processes, including mentoring and supporting early-career engineers and line management of graduates or apprentices where required
* Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel as required
About Kier Design and location
We're looking for a Drainage and Water Senior Engineer to join our Design team based in Exeter / Ipswich / Wymondham / Speke / Salford. Kier Design are a top-25 engineering consultancy, delivering a wide range of services across all sectors of the built environment, providing construction-focused, innovative and sustainable solutions. We have preferential access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline, including mega projects like High Speed 2 and Hinkley Point C, frameworks with national and local government and other public bodies, and a range of other interesting projects in every sector of the built environment.
Diversity and Inclusion
Diversity and inclusion is a priority for Kier. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives. You can see our D&I action plan here.
Benefits
* Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%
* Life Assurance
* Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
* Discounts on go-to brands
* Free Health and wellbeing services
* Training and development schemes
* Electric Vehicle Leasing
* Paid volunteering leave
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