Senior Infrastructure Engineer (potable water)

Buro Happold; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday per annum

Private Medical Health

Company Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Flexible Benefits

Early leaving on last Friday of each month

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join their Infrastructure Group in Leeds, focusing on potable water design. You will manage multidisciplinary projects and lead technical designs for water systems, ensuring compliance with standards. The position calls for a strong technical background in infrastructure design and the ability to mentor junior staff. The role offers hybrid working arrangements and a comprehensive benefits package including private healthcare and flexible benefits.

Qualifications

• Strong technical background in infrastructure design with experience in potable water design.
• Ability to manage and motivate the team while maintaining high communication standards.
• Willingness to travel and lead continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Manage multidisciplinary projects balancing demands and reviewing designs.
• Lead technical design and specify potable water systems adhering to standards.
• Mentor staff and manage workload for technical teams.

Skills

Infrastructure design

Potable water systems

Team management

Communication skills

Presentation skills

AutoCAD

Education

Membership of a relevant professional institution

Tools

Potable water design software

Job description

Are you a Civil Infrastructure Engineer looking to grow your technical and operational expertise across the world? Buro Happold is looking to recruit a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our Infrastructure Group in our London, Leeds or Manchester office, with a particular focus on potable water design.

Working as part of the UK Infrastructure Group, you will provide solutions to local infrastructure and utility needs through to planning entire cities overseas.

This role will have responsibility for delivering technical design on a diverse range of multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects in the south east region and also across the world, from city-scale masterplanning through to campus and building scale development infrastructure, with a special emphasis on potable water supply, treatment, and distribution systems.

Your next role

Be part of an exceptional team that embraces technically demanding projects and challenges. Be at the forefront of changes in the industry such as reducing embodied carbon and modern methods of infrastructure design.

Key Duties

• Managing the delivery of multidisciplinary projects, balancing demands and priorities, whilst reviewing civil infrastructure design—including potable water systems—from project proposition through to construction. Plan project resources and finances and monitor job financial performance.
• Leading the technical design and specification of potable water supply, treatment, and distribution systems, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
• The management of technical staff, with responsibility for planning team workload, as well as assisting and mentoring staff where needed, and developing more junior team members, particularly in potable water design.
• Preparing and reviewing technical reports, specifications, and schedules, with a focus on potable water infrastructure.
• Applying customer focus, you will be part of the work winning team securing the group’s project pipeline, including potable water projects.

Your Skills and Experience

• Strong technical background in infrastructure design, with a demonstrable track record of leading a technical specialism in potable water systems
• Experience in potable water system design, including supply, treatment, and distribution, preferably on international multidisciplinary projects.
• Ability to manage and motivate the team, as well as excellent communication and presentation skills
• A willingness to travel, and desire to lead continuous quality improvement in our work.
• Experience in AutoCAD and relevant potable water design software.
• Membership of a relevant professional institution.

What we offer

• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, exclusive of Bank Holidays.
• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Private Medical Health.
• Company Pension Scheme.
• Life Assurance.
• Income Protection.
• Flexible Benefits - including Cycle scheme, Dental insurance, Optical Cover, Travel insurance and Corporate discounts.
• Early leaving at the end of the month - Buro Happold actively encourages its employees to finish at 3pm on the last Friday of each month (depending on business demands). These hours can equate to an additional 4 days leave per annum.

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.