Senior Drainage & Water Engineer | Flexible Hours

Kier Group; Salford; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Senior Engineer – Drainage and Water to join Kier Design, with options of Exeter, Ipswich, or Salford as work bases. The role involves leading drainage and water design packages, managing delivery plans, budgets, and risks while coordinating with multi-disciplinary teams.

A full driving licence and willingness to travel are expected. You will mentor early-career engineers and contribute to continuous improvement of practices, ensuring high-quality, compliant outputs

Qualifications

• Experienced in delivering Drainage & Water design packages across sectors such as Building, Transportation, Water Utilities, or Flood & Water Management.
• Able to manage technical delivery of work packages, including programme awareness, cost control, and proactive risk management.
• Capable of producing and reviewing high-quality, compliant engineering outputs in line with relevant standards and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Acting as design lead for assigned work packages, managing technical risks and contributing to quality assurance and design reviews.
• Managing day-to-day delivery of work packages, ensuring programme, budget, and risk commitments are met.
• Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams, internal stakeholders, and external partners to support integrated design delivery.
• Providing line management and mentoring to early-career engineers, contributing to technical development and knowledge sharing.
• Supporting continuous improvement of team practices, standards, and delivery quality.

Skills

Drainage design

Stakeholder management

Multi-disciplinary collaboration

Technical delivery

Job description

Kier Group is seeking a Senior Engineer – Drainage and Water to join Kier Design, with options of Exeter, Ipswich, or Salford as work bases. The role involves leading drainage and water design packages, managing delivery plans, budgets, and risks while coordinating with multi-disciplinary teams.

A full driving licence and willingness to travel are expected. You will mentor early-career engineers and contribute to continuous improvement of practices, ensuring high-quality, compliant outputs