Drainage Engineer

Are you a Drainage Engineer looking for a new opportunity?

We are looking for a SUDS Engineer based in the Peterborough area. We need someone to start ASAP until Februray 2025.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop designs and coordinate multidiscipline teams ensuring standard products are used where possible whilst ensuring British Standards are applied.
• Apply fundamental design principles of pipelines (gravity flow), flow in open channels and SuDS features.
• Provide input to proposals, work scope, work schedule and budgets.
• Prepare Pre-Construction Information files (PCI) as required in the procurement of Ground Investigation Works and Assembly of permanent works on the Site
• Understand and implement the hierarchy in risk management in design and be able to highlight Design Risk Assessments
• Project management in a proactive fashion ensuring site surveys are incorporated to underpin projects being completed on time, against budget, to the required quality and safely
• Confidently present solutions to internal and stakeholders with the ability to answer queries and establish revised solutions as required to find 'win-win' solutions.
• Proactively explore innovative SuDS solutions which could be implemented to create efficiencies.

Person Specification:

You'll have experience with customer interface to develop, design and promote SuDS solutions to complement your experience in undertaking design of surface water/foul sewer pipelines within the Water and Wastewater Industry. You'll also have high competency in the use of MS office suite to communicate and bring your solutions to life for others.

Able to develop and communicate technical sketches, ensuring they meet CIRIA and British Standards, you'll have excellent communication and presentation skills as you look to bring others along for our journey. Comfortable in collaborating with a range of people and groups, you'll back up your proposals with solid reports and data analysis to bring credibility to your ideas.

SUDS Engineer

Working with a range of internal and external stakeholders, including schools, businesses, and councils, you'll propose and agree on a jointly developed set of proposals which meet the community needs within our safety requirements and business objectives.

As our SUDs Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role between our community and project teams, so you'll have to be prepared to be flexible in your approach as you deal with a range of stakeholders with, at times, conflicting opinions and priorities.

If this is of interest to you then please contact Hollie Harris on

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

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