Principal Civil Engineer (@one Alliance)

Binnies; East Hampshire; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9-day working fortnight

Competitive pension scheme

33 days annual leave

Paid volunteering day each year

Enhanced parental leave

Private medical cover

Support Of 2 Paid Qualifications

Annual bonus (subject to company and 1

Job summary

Binnies, part of the RSK Group, is seeking a Principal Civil Engineer in Peterborough with hybrid options. The role leads and develops multidisciplinary project teams, providing technical direction, design support, and ensuring designs meet legislation and deadlines.

You’ll coach engineers, manage stakeholders, and drive innovative solutions across water and civil infrastructure projects. The position offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional growth, competitive

Qualifications

• Engineering degree with professional registration or progress towards chartered status.
• Proven track record of leading Civil Engineering teams on complex schemes.
• Strong knowledge of design standards and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Review civil design deliverables to ensure compliance with processes and standards.
• Input into CDM and commissioning strategy meetings.
• Review CDM deliverables to ensure completeness across projects.
• Maintain portfolio awareness and disseminate technical knowledge across the team.
• Ensure compliance with Minimum Asset Standards and provide constructive challenges.
• Work across Alliance and Pan-Alliance to establish common standards and processes.
• Implement and adopt new digital technologies for fully attributed 3D models.
• Provide one‑on‑one or team‑based technical guidance to engineers.
• Develop design alerts to promote learning and improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Design review

Digital technologies

Education

Engineering degree (Chartered preferred)

Job description

Principal Civil Engineer

Location: Peterborough (Hybrid options available)

Benefits

• 9-day working fortnight
• Competitive pension scheme
• 33 days annual leave
• Paid volunteering day each year
• Enhanced parental leave
• Private medical cover
• Support Of 2 Paid Qualifications
• Annual bonus (subject to company and individual performance)

Your Purpose

As a Principal Civil Engineer within one of our four business units, you’ll provide engineering technical direction, collaborate with key stakeholders and support multi‑disciplinary project teams. You’ll provide design support for numerous schemes and ensure all designs are fit for purpose and meet current legislation and standards, and completed on time and within budget.

A key aspect of this role includes leading, coaching, and developing junior and less experienced engineers.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Check and review civil design deliverables produced by other Civil Engineers to ensure the processes and procedures are followed.
• Input into Construction Design Management (CDM) and commissioning strategy meetings.
• Review and ensure the design CDM deliverables have been completed for projects.
• Maintain portfolio awareness in technical areas and disseminate knowledge across the civil engineering team.
• Ensure compliance with Minimum Asset Standards and provide constructive challenges when necessary.
• Work across Alliance project areas and Pan‑Alliance to establish technical common standards and processes.
• Implement and embrace new digital technologies to achieve fully attributed 3D models.
• Provide one‑on‑one or team‑based technical guidance and support to engineers.
• Develop design alerts to promote continuous learning and improvement.

About You

• Degree in engineering (or equivalent) and ideally chartered or working towards it.
• Expertise in reinforced concrete, steel buildings, buried pipework, and site infrastructure.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
• Passion for health, safety, and innovative design solutions.

Business Units

Place Based Thinking

The Place Based Thinking team delivers some of the largest and most complex projects across the @one Alliance. Made up of six Senior Project Manager teams, we oversee 19 catchments, covering key sites such as Whitlingham, Flag Fen, Great Billing, Cotton Valley, Bedford, Colchester, and Ipswich Cliff Quays. These projects involve managing all parts of the network from rising and gravity mains, pumping stations, high spilling overflows, and water recycling centres.

Water

The Water Business Unit provides strategic support across the clean water network, covering both system performance and infrastructure planning. We assess the future hydraulic state of the network in response to population growth and increased demand, support the design and delivery of capital and infrastructure schemes to ensure hydraulic resilience, and work with optimisation teams to enhance overall network efficiency.

Water Recycling (East and West)

Our Water Recycling Business Unit, split into East and West regions, is responsible for the collection, conveyance and treatment of wastewater across an extensive network. We operate over 76,000 km of sewerage infrastructure and 1,163 treatment centres, ensuring safe and sustainable discharge to the environment while driving innovation and environmental performance.

Why Join Us?

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with one of the UK’s most successful capital delivery alliances. You’ll have the chance to contribute to cutting‑edge projects that shape the future of water infrastructure, working alongside a team of experts across various disciplines. We offer a culture that values innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth, with a focus on delivering sustainable solutions that make a positive environmental impact.

Safety

At Anglian Water’s @one Alliance, we believe in being Safer Every Day. Safety is at the heart of everything we do. Being Safer Every Day means making positive choices, moment by moment, to protect ourselves and those around us. We create a culture where health, safety and wellbeing come first.

About Us

We develop intelligent solutions using our award‑winning integrated planning and design approach to deliver functional infrastructure and lasting environmental and social legacies. This is backed by a culture that has stayed true since our foundation over 100 years ago. We create new possibilities for humanity through our innovative approach to delivery.

Binnies is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.

At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.

Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues’ growth. We're committed to preserving RSK’s people‑first culture, promoting innovation and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.

If you’re passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Income Protection
• High Street Vouchers
• Life Assurance
• Annual Leave Purchase
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Paid Volunteering
• Mental Health Support
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Sectors

Environment

We create sustainable critical infrastructure across the whole asset life cycle to meet the net zero challenge. We integrate sustainability into everything we do, utilising digital innovation to create value. We de‑risk projects through collaborative engagement and holistic thinking which builds inclusive wealth for our clients, stakeholders and communities.

Water

We are engaged in every aspect of the water industry, helping clients efficiently and effectively collect, store, move and treat water and wastewater; plan and manage watersheds; harness the energy embedded in the treatment and movement of water and enhance sustainability. We incorporate leading‑edge digital transformation to create more resilient and reliable solutions using data analytics to provide powerful insights.