Senior Drainage Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Drainage Engineer to join our Design & Business Services team based in Speke, Liverpool. Are you looking for your next challenge?

Location: Speke, Liverpool - we offer flexible working.

Contract: Permanent – 37 ½ hours per week.

What will you be doing?

As Senior Drainage Engineer, you'll be supporting the Civil and Structural Engineering Team.

Your day to day will include:

• Producing and checking drainage design calculations, flood risk assessment reports, drawings, design models, design strategy reports and specifications
• Coordinating drainage and civil engineering design information within the civil and structural engineering team and with other technical design disciplines such as Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Building Services Engineering
• Setting appropriate sustainable drainage strategies for projects and obtaining appropriate consents for drainage proposals via the Local Authority Planning Approval process, including making pre-development enquiries and consultations with statutory authorities and Lead Local Flood Authorities
• Occasionally visiting development sites and building sites, to conduct surveys and inspections and visiting other designers' and clients' offices to represent the civil engineering team at meetings

What are we looking for?

This role is great for you if:

• Have experience of designing drainage systems to CIRIA C753 SuDS Manual guidance
• Can provide examples of making applications for sewer adoptions
• Have experience of preparing and interpreting Level 1 and 2 flood risk assessment and site drainage strategy reports
• Can demonstrate experience of consulting with local sewer operators and Lead Local Flood Authorities
• You hold professional qualifications such as BSc, MSc, BEng or MEng in Civil Engineering or Environmental Sciences, and CEng, Member, or Associate Member of Institution of Civil Engineers or Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management or similar.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at  to discuss and arrange these.

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.