Drainage Design Engineer – Highways & SuDS

Aldwych Consulting; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working

33 days annual leave

Pension

Healthcare plan

Life insurance

Bonus schemes

Travel loan

Career progression

Job summary

Aldwych Consulting is seeking a Drainage Engineer to join its Infrastructure team in the UK, focusing on highways and major infrastructure drainage schemes.

You'll deliver drainage design packages from feasibility to construction, coordinate with highways, structures, utilities, environmental teams, and mentor junior engineers.

The role offers flexible/hybrid working, a strong project mix, and opportunities for chartership with supportive development.

Qualifications

• Strong drainage design experience within a consultancy environment.
• Good knowledge of highway drainage and SuDS.
• Strong experience using Causeway Flow and/or InfoDrainage.
• Competence using Civil 3D.
• Good understanding of relevant drainage, highway and water standards and guidance.
• Experience producing drainage calculations, drawings, reports and technical submissions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with clients and wider project teams.
• A full UK driving licence.
• Ideally working towards IEng or CEng status.

Responsibilities

• Designing highway and surface water drainage systems for new-build, improvement and major infrastructure schemes.
• Developing drainage strategies from feasibility through to detailed design and construction.
• Designing pipe networks, carrier drains, culverts, filter drains, linear drainage and outfalls.
• Designing attenuation and storage systems, including swales, ponds, wetlands and other SuDS features.
• Undertaking rainfall/runoff calculations and assessing design storms and climate change allowances.
• Hydraulic calculations and network modelling using Causeway Flow and/or InfoDrainage.
• Assessing drainage capacity, surcharge, flooding and exceedance flows.
• Coordinating drainage design with highways, earthworks, structures, utilities, landscaping and environmental requirements.
• Assessing existing drainage infrastructure and identifying capacity constraints and opportunities for improvement.
• Producing accurate models, drawings, calculations, reports and technical submissions.
• Supporting technical reviews and ensuring designs meet relevant standards and project requirements.
• Attending client meetings, workshops and site visits.
• Supporting junior engineers and sharing technical knowledge within the team.

Skills

Drainage design

Highways drainage

SuDS knowledge

Causeway Flow

InfoDrainage

Civil 3D

Standards guidance

Communication

UK driving licence

IEng/CEng

Tools

Causeway Flow

InfoDrainage

Civil 3D

Job description

Aldwych Consulting is seeking a Drainage Engineer to join its Infrastructure team in the UK, focusing on highways and major infrastructure drainage schemes.

You'll deliver drainage design packages from feasibility to construction, coordinate with highways, structures, utilities, environmental teams, and mentor junior engineers.

The role offers flexible/hybrid working, a strong project mix, and opportunities for chartership with supportive development.