Senior Infrastructure Engineer

SCP; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

8% employer pension contribution

Career progression

Job summary

SCP Infrastructure & Design, part of the RSK Group, is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead highways and drainage designs from Leeds. The role emphasizes technical delivery, mentoring, and collaboration with project managers and clients on nationally significant schemes. Hybrid working is offered with a 35-hour week.

Ideal candidates will be experienced across residential, commercial, and industrial projects, with strong design software skills and a proactive, solution-focused approach.

Qualifications

• Experience in highways and drainage design across multiple sectors.
• Ability to lead technical delivery and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Leading the technical delivery of highways and drainage designs on medium to large projects
• Producing and checking drawings, calculations, and specifications to a high standard
• Providing day-to-day technical guidance and mentoring to engineers and technicians
• Coordinating design inputs and managing workloads to meet programme deadlines
• Reviewing outputs to ensure compliance with standards, legislation, and best practice
• Supporting client engagement and contributing to design discussions and solutions
• Keeping abreast of regulatory changes and championing quality across the team

Skills

Highways design

Drainage design

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Client engagement

Communication

Tools

AutoCAD

MicroStation

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Vacancy

Senior Engineer – Highways

Salary: £43,000 – £53,000 + 8% Employer Pension Contribution

Hours: 35-hour working week

Location: Leeds (Hybrid – 3 days office / 2 days home)

Ready to take ownership of complex schemes and influence better design outcomes?

At SCP Infrastructure & Design, an RSK Group company, we are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to play a key role in delivering high-quality highways and drainage solutions across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure projects.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an established engineer who is ready to step up — leading technical delivery, mentoring others, and acting as a trusted point of expertise within a collaborative, forward-thinking team.

Why This Role?

As a Senior Engineer, you’ll move beyond task delivery and into true project influence. You’ll help shape designs, guide junior engineers, and work closely with project managers and clients to deliver technically robust, sustainable solutions.

You’ll be empowered to challenge convention, drive continuous improvement, and contribute meaningfully to the success of nationally significant projects across residential, commercial, healthcare, education, and energy sectors.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Leading the technical delivery of highways and drainage designs on medium to large projects
• Producing and checking drawings, calculations, and specifications to a high standard
• Providing day-to-day technical guidance and mentoring to engineers and technicians
• Coordinating design inputs and managing workloads to meet programme deadlines
• Reviewing outputs to ensure compliance with standards, legislation, and best practice
• Supporting client engagement and contributing to design discussions and solutions
• Keeping abreast of regulatory changes and championing quality across the team

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong experience in highways and drainage design (roads, foul & surface water)
• Proven background across multiple sectors (residential, commercial, industrial, etc.)
• Experience producing technical reports such as Drainage Strategies, FRAs and O&M Manuals
• Confident communicator with the ability to guide and influence others
• Strong design software and Microsoft Office capability
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach to engineering challenges
• Full UK driving licence

What’s In It For You?

• Competitive salary of £43,000 – £53,000
• 35-hour working week
• 8% employer pension contribution
• Hybrid working with flexibility built in
• Exposure to varied, high-profile UK projects
• Clear progression routes within a national consultancy
• Supportive culture that values innovation, sustainability, and collaboration

RSK is an inclusive employer.

About Us

In January 2022, we joined the RSK group: a merger that mirrors each company’s commitment to an engaging and open company culture. We highly value our people’s input, building strong and mutually beneficial relationships with our clients, and the desire to grow a strong and sustainable business. SCP will continue to serve its clients without any fundamental changes except by expanding our geographical capabilities and our team.

SCP is a specialist transportation planning, highway, and drainage infrastructure design consultancy that has been offering multi-disciplinary professional services to the private and public sectors since 1991. We have offices located strategically around the UK, including offices in Manchester, Leeds, and London. Our service grouping includes advising and supporting at the master-planning stages of development proposals, conducting detailed assessments for approvals processes and the implementation stages. The business also has long-established expert witness relationships with planning barristers across the UK.

SCP 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 remains 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.

By providing workplace adjustments, we make it easier for people to confidently explore and pursue our career opportunities and recognise that flexibility is key to fostering a dynamic and thriving workplace. Many of our office-based positions benefit from a flexible working arrangement, allowing our team members to achieve a balance between professional and personal commitments.

We actively encourage applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, ages, neurotypes, religions or beliefs, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities.

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?