Drainage and Water Design Engineer

Kier Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group in the UK is seeking an Engineer – Drainage and Water to join the Design Team Leader group, delivering high-quality, compliant drainage and water solutions across Building & Development, Transportation, and Water Utilities projects in Exeter, Ipswich, or Salford.

You will coordinate design outputs, apply relevant standards, and contribute to knowledge sharing while working with multidisciplinary teams to meet programme, budget, and risk commitments.

Qualifications

• Demonstrating technical competence in Drainage & Water engineering.
• Experience delivering tasks across Building & Development, Transportation, Water Utilities, and Flood & Water Management.
• Full driving licence and willingness to travel.
• Able to work autonomously and take ownership of technical outputs.
• Comfortable collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Delivering assigned tasks within work packages to a high standard, taking ownership of technical outputs and ensuring they are coordinated, compliant, and sustainable.
• Applying relevant design standards, regulations, and quality processes consistently, contributing technical input and supporting quality assurance and design reviews.
• Managing the delivery of individual tasks within the programme and budget, escalating issues and proposing solutions to maintain overall package performance.
• Working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams, internal stakeholders, and external partners, ensuring task‑level outputs integrate smoothly with wider project delivery.
• Contributing to knowledge sharing and technical development within the team, providing informal guidance or mentoring to early‑career engineers or apprentices where appropriate.

Skills

Drainage & Water engineering

Autonomy in task delivery

Stakeholder collaboration

Driving licence & travel

Job description

We're looking for an Engineer – Drainage and Water to join our team based in Exeter, Ipswich, or Salford. Kier Design are a highly regarded Tier 1 Contractor, with a 750 plus strong design consultancy team, recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor.Location:

Exeter, Ipswich, or SalfordHours:

40 per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role

Are you…Demonstrating technical competence in Drainage & Water engineering, with experience delivering tasks across one or more sectors (Building & Development, Transportation, Water Utilities, Flood & Water Management)Able to work autonomously at a task level, taking ownership of technical outputs while supporting wider package deliveryExperienced in applying relevant design standards, regulations, and quality processes consistentlyComfortable collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders, contributing effectively to integrated deliveryHolding a Full driving licence and willing to travel as required

What will you be responsible for?

As an Engineer – Drainage and Water, you'll be working within the Design Team Leader team. This is an excellent opportunity to deliver high‑quality, compliant, and sustainable Drainage & Water solutions across a variety of exciting projects. You'll contribute to design coordination, provide technical input, and support the team in maintaining consistent standards and best practice. Working across disciplines such as Building & Development Drainage, Transportation Drainage, Water, and Flood & Water Management, you'll play a key role in helping to ensure programme, budget, and risk commitments are met while supporting knowledge sharing within the team.

Your day to day will include:

• Delivering assigned tasks within work packages to a high standard, taking ownership of technical outputs and ensuring they are coordinated, compliant, and sustainable
• Applying relevant design standards, regulations, and quality processes consistently, contributing technical input and supporting quality assurance and design reviews
• Managing the delivery of individual tasks within the programme and budget, escalating issues and proposing solutions to maintain overall package performance
• Working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams, internal stakeholders, and external partners, ensuring task‑level outputs integrate smoothly with wider project delivery
• Contributing to knowledge sharing and technical development within the team, providing informal guidance or mentoring to early‑career engineers or apprentices where appropriate

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case‑by‑case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre‑employment checks.