Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Water Recycling - Peterborough

BALFOUR BEATTY; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to provide strategic technical leadership in water recycling and potable water projects. This role offers the chance to shape industry standards while mentoring a talented engineering team. You'll be responsible for ensuring compliance with legislation, enhancing design calculations, and championing innovative technologies. With flexible working options and a comprehensive benefits package, this position promises a rewarding career path in a transformative environment. Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to delivering vital infrastructure projects that make a real difference in communities.

Benefits

Smart Working

25 Days Annual Leave

Family Friendly Policies

Pension Plan

Share Incentive Plan

Volunteering Leave

Recognition Schemes

Qualifications

• Experience in potable and wastewater pipeline design.
• Technical expertise in quality assurance and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical reviews and guidance for infrastructure designs.
• Lead design review meetings and oversee quality control.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Stakeholder Management

Communication Skills

Water/Wastewater Engineering

Risk Management

Education

Degree in Water/Wastewater Engineering

Related Field Degree

Tools

Autodesk Construction Cloud

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

Key responsibilities:

• 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

What We’re Looking For

• A degree (preferred 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 national 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, national 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.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity 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 identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic 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 Disability 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 a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/