Drainage & Water Engineer

Kier Group plc; Twickenham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in the UK is seeking a Drainage and Water Engineer to join their Design team. The ideal candidate will deliver high-quality drainage solutions and ensure compliance with design standards. Responsibilities include managing tasks within budget, supporting design coordination, and mentoring early-career engineers. The role offers competitive benefits and flexibility in hours. Experience in drainage design and effective communication is essential.

Benefits

Market-leading development opportunities

Strong pension scheme

Employee Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans

Qualifications

• Experience in drainage & water design with relevant calculations and standards.
• Ability to perform site visits and surveys, demonstrating attention to detail.
• Willingness to travel for projects and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, compliant, and sustainable drainage solutions.
• Contribute to design coordination and ensure programme and budget commitments are met.
• Identify risks or issues proactively and support timely resolutions.

Skills

Engineering calculations

Drainage & water design

Effective communication

Attention to detail

Education

HNC, BTEC, or equivalent in engineering

Job description

Overview

We're looking for a Drainage and Water Engineer to join our Design team based in Exeter / Ipswich / Wymondham / Speke / Salford. Kier Design is 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, offering market-leading development opportunities and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people\'s careers. This role provides competitive holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy leave, a strong pension scheme, and a share in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans.

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

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

Responsibilities

As Drainage and Water Engineer, you\'ll be working within the Drainage Team, delivering high-quality, compliant, and sustainable drainage & water solutions across a range of discipline-specific projects. You will support the design lead on assigned work packages, contribute to design coordination and help ensure programme, budget, and risk commitments are met. The role includes providing technical input to the team, assisting with knowledge sharing, and supporting early-career engineers where required, while helping to maintain consistent standards and best practice in delivery.

Your day to day will include:

• Delivering assigned tasks within work packages to a high standard, taking ownership of technical outputs and ensuring they are coordinated, compliant, and sustainable
• Applying relevant design standards, regulations, and quality processes consistently, contributing technical input and supporting quality assurance and design reviews
• Proactively identifying risks or issues within tasks and supporting timely resolution
• Managing the delivery of individual tasks within the programme and budget, escalating issues and proposing solutions to maintain overall package performance

Qualifications

This role is suitable for you if:

• HNC, BTEC, or equivalent qualification in a relevant engineering field
• Experience producing engineering calculations, drawings, reports, and models in drainage & water design, and understanding of relevant design standards, regulations, and quality assurance processes
• Ability to undertake site visits, surveys, and desk-based research to inform design outputs, with strong attention to detail and accuracy in completing routine tasks
• Effective communication and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams, full driving license, and willingness to travel as required

Rewards and benefits

We offer our people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. See more information about benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority. Our employees are key in shaping Kier\'s diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a significant impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. See our D&I action plan here.

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

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Documents

• Job Description_D&W_Engineer_Dec2025.pdf