Senior/ Civil Engineer (Water Infrastructure)

Sweco UK Ltd; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working

Competitive pension contribution

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Discretionary Annual Bonus

Professional subscriptions

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Cycle2Work Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee discounts

Salary Sacrifice EV

Tree planting for new starters

Job summary

Sweco UK Ltd is seeking a Senior or Civil Engineer to deliver outline design and detailed specifications for drainage and wastewater schemes. The role is based in Glasgow with a flexible, hybrid setup of at least 3 days in the office and adaptable hours.

You will work with a multidisciplinary team, progressing projects from concept to delivery for local authorities and water clients, ensuring quality and efficient solutions.

Qualifications

• Aspiring or established chartership with ICE or CIWEM.
• Strong interpersonal and team-working skills with clear communication across all levels.
• Knowledge and experience of water and wastewater infrastructure design including multidisciplinary elements (process engineering & MEICA).
• Experience in design, contract and tender preparation, tender assessment and contract administration.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to lifecycle stages from brief definition to delivery for clients such as local authorities and water companies.
• Produce and check technical designs, calculations, drawings and reports; coordinate with other disciplines.
• Manage design changes, ensuring time, cost and quality targets are met.
• Support bids and tenders and build strong client relationships for business growth.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Team working

Communication

Water and wastewater design knowledge

Experience in design, contract and-ted

Tender preparation and administration

Education

Chartered status in ICE/CIWEM (in progress)

Job description

Let’s transform society together…

We’re Sweco.

We’re future planners, city shapers, urban innovators, digital transformers, net zero chasers, community connectors, social enterprisers and lifestyle improvers.

We’re difference makers.

We’re Europe’s leading design, engineering, environment and regulatory consultancy and we’re now recruiting for a Senior or Civil Engineer to join our team delivering outline design and detailed specifications primarily for drainage infrastructure (including SuDS) and wastewater schemes.

This role is based in our Glasgow office and can be worked flexibly with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office and the option of adjusted start and finish times.

Sweco brings together 22,000 experts across Northern Europe, combining global expertise with local delivery across the full water lifecycle. Our water engineering teams are industry leaders, helping clients meet growing demands through innovative, TOTEX‑focused solutions that reduce cost and carbon.

You’ll join a growing, collaborative team where innovation, sustainability and knowledge‑sharing are at the heart of what we do. We support your development so you can build your expertise, challenge conventional thinking and make a real difference for clients, communities and the environment.

We are looking for individuals who can challenge conventional thinking and work collaboratively to meet a wide range of business, environment and regulatory challenges for these clients. The role offers an opportunity for successful candidates to broaden and diversify their expertise.

Your role at a glance

As a Design Engineer in our Water team, you’ll play a key role in shaping essential infrastructure projects that serve communities. You’ll work closely with a supportive, multi‑disciplinary team, taking projects from early ideas right through to delivery for local authorities, water companies and major infrastructure clients.

What you’ll be doing:

You’ll contribute to every stage of a project’s lifecycle — helping define the brief, setting clear deliverables and milestones, and ensuring quality and consistency throughout. You’ll produce and check technical designs such as calculations, drawings and reports, coordinate with other disciplines, and manage design changes as projects evolve. Along the way, you’ll take ownership of your work, delivering to agreed time, cost and quality standards, and helping improve the way we work through lessons learned and continuous improvement.

You’ll have the opportunity to support business growth by helping prepare bids and tenders, and by building strong, lasting relationships with our clients

What we’re looking for from you:

• Interested in or currently working towards chartership status with a relevant institution e.g ICE or CIWEM.
• Strong interpersonal/team working skills, with a good working relationship with all levels of the organisation, clients and contractors together with the ability to communicate in a fluent and positive manner both verbally and written.
• Knowledge and experience of water and wastewater infrastructure design including an understanding of the basics and the integration of multidisciplinary elements including process engineering and MEICA.
• Experience in design, contract and tender preparation, tender assessment and contract administration.

What’s in it for you?

This is an exciting time to join Sweco and if you want to be part of a company who is small in all the best ways but large enough to provide a diverse and exciting workload, this job is for you.

Employee Benefits

• Flexible and hybrid working (Flexworks Policy)
• Competitive pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme
• Payment of two relevant professional subscriptions
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days per year)
• Cycle2Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (wellbeing, mental health, financial and work advice)
• Employee discounts via Sweco Benefit Select (Faircare)
• Salary Sacrifice Electric Vehicle Scheme
• We plant a tree for all new starters!

About Us

Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

Sweco is committed to enabling all its colleagues to achieve a great balance between work and their other priorities, such as caring responsibilities, leisure activities, further learning or other interests. We offer flexible start and finish times, part time and hybrid working options so that you can flex your hours around your day to day needs.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

It’s important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.

We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more The Armed Forces Covenant - Our Commitments | Sweco UK.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage Employer which reflects our commitment to fair pay and support for all colleagues.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2000 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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