Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Water Recycling - Peterborough

ZipRecruiter; England; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading civil engineering firm in the UK seeks a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to provide technical leadership and guide infrastructure projects. The role involves ensuring compliance with industry standards, mentoring engineers, and enhancing design processes. Candidates should have relevant experience and strong leadership skills. This position offers flexibility with up to 40% remote work and competitive benefits.

Benefits

Smart working opportunities

25 days paid annual leave

Generous family-friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a technical expert in potable and wastewater pipeline design.
• Familiarity with design software and industry processes.
• Passion for mentoring and developing teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical reviews and input for infrastructure designs.
• Collaborate with teams to track key milestones.
• Champion new technologies and best practices.
• Lead design review meetings.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Education

Degree in water/wastewater engineering or related field

Tools

Design software

Job description

About the role

Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Water Recycling (Infrastructure) – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

@one Alliance is a partnership of eight leading companies—Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska, and SWECO—delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. As we enter AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period, we are preparing to undertake our largest project yet. This is an unparalleled opportunity to shape industry standards, drive innovation, and accelerate your career.

Are you ready to be part of something transformative?

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer, you will provide technical leadership, design oversight, and strategic guidance for potable water (clean) and water recycling (wastewater) infrastructure projects, including pipelines and networks. You will play a crucial role in ensuring designs are efficient, compliant, and future-ready, while also supporting the growth and development of our engineering teams.

What you'll be doing

• Provide technical reviews, guidance, and input for infrastructure designs, ensuring compliance with legislation and industry standards.
• Work closely with Design Managers and Technical Managers to track key milestones and review dates.
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers to enhance design calculations, standards, and product innovation.
• Lead design review meetings and contribute to CDM and commissioning strategy discussions.
• Oversee quality control processes through Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), supporting discipline engineers to meet project timelines.
• Champion new technologies and best practices, ensuring alignment with MAS standards.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering professional development and standardizing procedures.

Who we're looking for

• A degree (but not essential) in water/wastewater engineering or a related field.
• Ideally proven experience as a technical expert in potable and wastewater pipeline design, quality assurance, and risk management.
• Familiarity with design software and industry processes.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with a passion for mentoring and developing teams.

This role is not assigned to individual projects but instead provides strategic technical leadership across a portfolio of projects. If you are ready to take the next step in your engineering career and make a lasting impact, apply today!

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: balfourbeatty.com/disabilityconfident

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at [e-mail]