Senior Drainage Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Drainage Engineer to join our Transportation team based in Liverpool. The team are designing a wide range of building types and site redevelopments in various construction sectors such as education, retail, blue light, conservation and commercial, for a mixture of public and private clients. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell 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

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Liverpool

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

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Drainage Engineer, you'll be working within the Civil and Structural Engineering team, supporting them in designing sustainable urban drainage systems.

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 sites, to conduct surveys and inspections and visiting other designers' and clients' offices and to represent the civil engineering team at project meetings

What are we looking for?

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

• 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
• Demonstrate relevant knowledge of underground drainage design to current European Standards a long with experience of designing drainage and SUDS systems to CIRIA C753 SuDS Manual guidance, with practical use of Innovyze InfoDrainage design software or MicroDrainage, it is imperative to have direct experience in consulting with local sewer operators, Lead Local Flood Authorities, the Environment Agency (EA) or National Resources Wales (NRW) or Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
• A full driving licence in order to visit other sites / offices

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

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