Drainage & Water Senior Engineer

We're looking for a Drainage and Water Senior Engineer to join our Design team based in Exeter / Ipswich / Wymondham / Speke / Salford. Kier Design are a top-25 engineering consultancy, delivering a wide range of services across all sectors of the built environment, providing construction-focused, innovative and sustainable solutions. We have preferential access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline, including mega projects like High Speed 2 and Hinkley Point C, frameworks with national and local government and other public bodies, and a range of other interesting projects in every sector of the built environment.

We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams, we want to help you carve out a role in which you'll grow and thrive for many years to come. Offering market-leading development opportunities, supporting our graduates through the early stages of their careers, enabling our people to become professionally qualified, providing management training and qualifications, and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people's careers. Actively promoting, so you can keep pushing and stretching yourself. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more

Location: Exeter / Ipswich / Wymondham / Speke / Salford

Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As Drainage and Water Senior Engineer , you'll be working within the Drainage Team, delivering high-quality, compliant, and sustainable discipline-specific drainage & water solutions across a range of projects. Acting as Design Lead under the Design Team Leader, they ensure programme, budget, and risk commitments are met through clear and effective communication. The role includes line management of up to two graduates or apprentices, mentoring the wider team, contributing to technical development, and supporting continuous improvement of team practices and delivery standards.

Your day to day will include:

• Delivering coordinated, compliant, and sustainable drainage & water designs in line with relevant standards, regulations, and client requirements
• 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, escalating issues where required
• Working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams, internal stakeholders, and external partners to support integrated and efficient design delivery
• Providing line management and mentoring to early-career engineers and contribute to technical development, knowledge sharing, and team capability, supporting consistent application of processes, standards, and best practice to improve ways of working and technical quality

What are we looking for?

This role of Drainage and Water Senior Engineer is great for you if:

• Professional engineering accreditation or working towards CEng / IEng
• Demonstrated experience delivering Drainage & Water design packages with a high degree of technical autonomy across one or more sectors (e.g. Building & Development, Transportation, Water Utilities, Flood & Water Management), proven ability to manage the technical delivery of work packages, including programme awareness, cost control input, and proactive risk management.
• Experience working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams and engaging effectively with internal and external stakeholders, track record of producing and reviewing high-quality, compliant engineering outputs in line with relevant standards, regulations, and quality processes, knowledge mentoring and supporting early-career engineers, including line management of graduates or apprentices where required.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel as required

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