Principal Flood Risk & Drainage Engineer

Strata Consulting; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Assurance

Private medical insurance

Gym membership

Cycle scheme

ICE accredited training

IEng/CEng qualifications

Job summary

Strata Consulting is seeking a Principal Flood Risk & Drainage Engineer in Exeter to lead flood risk and drainage input on major projects. The role involves supervising a small team, preparing fee proposals, and managing financial and technical project delivery.

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience, degree in Civil Engineering, and expertise in FRA, SuDS, and Microdrainage software, with client-facing responsibilities and mentoring duties.

Qualifications

• Experience leading flood risk and drainage input on multiple projects.
• Minimum 7+ years in relevant field.
• Preparation of Flood Risk Assessments for planning and S104 submissions.
• Mentoring junior engineers and client facing responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the flood risk and drainage design on projects and manage the design process.
• Prepare fee proposals and oversee financial and technical running of projects.
• Deliver flood alleviation schemes for public and private sector clients.
• Mentor junior engineers and maintain client relationships.

Skills

Flood risk

Drainage design

Team leadership

Financial management

Client facing

Education

Civil Engineering degree

Tools

Microdrainage

InfoDrainage

Flow

QGIS

Job description

Are you passionate for Flood Risk? Our client is an award-winning regional consultancy, providing specialist development planning and infrastructure services to the property industry.

They have an opening for a Principal Flood Risk & Drainage Engineer to join their expanding team supporting a wealth of major projects. These will include various: mixed use urban extensions, leisure & tourism schemes, renewable energy, retirement accommodation, new employment land & more.

The ideal candidate should have sufficient experience to lead the flood risk and drainage input on projects like these, with support from senior colleagues and our wider team of civil engineers and technicians.

What’s on offer

• Hybrid / Flexible working
• ICE accredited training scheme
• Professional qualifications through IEng and CEng
• Life Assurance
• Private medical insurance
• Gym membership / Cycle scheme + more
• 2 x Annual subscriptions

The role

• A key element to the role will be having an understanding the legislative background relating to flood risk and drainage, planning, undertaking detail design and managing the design process.
• The individual will be responsible for the financial performance of a small team of engineers delivering FRA’s and the detail design of foul and surface water SuDS.
• In addition, the successful candidate will have the relevant experience in delivering flood alleviation schemes for both public and private sector clients.
• You will have a minimum of 7+ experience and your principle role will be the day to day supervising a small team of engineers, preparation of fee proposals and the financial and technical running of their own projects.
• The role will require you to prepare Flood Risk Assessments, undertake conceptual and detail design of flood protection measures and drainage strategies, leading to planning applications or construction drawings.
• You can expect to be active on several projects / client accounts at any given time. You will be expected to mentor and develop junior engineers together with client facing.

What you need to succeed

• A key element of your experience will be the design of flood alleviation schemes, foul and surface water/SuDS drainage systems.
• Having a solid working knowledge of Microdrainage, InfoDrainage and Flow.
• Having experience in the use of QGIS and river modelling software together with highways design and earthworks strategies would be an advantage.
• You will hold a degree in Civil Engineering or appropriate science or equivalent commercial experience and responsibility.
• Preparation of Flood Risk Assessments in Flood Zone 1, 2 and 3.
• Undertake conceptual and detail design of surface water flood alleviation works.
• Preparation of complex foul and surface water drainage strategies (suitable for outline/detailed planning and s104 submission) and detail design of the same (which incorporate SuDS techniques).
• Expert knowledge of Microdrainage, InfoDrainage and Flow software package.