Overview

Job Title: Assistant Drainage Engineer

Ref. No.: CJD12025H

Location: Based near Glasgow

Salary: GBP28,000 - GBP33,000

This is a wonderful opportunity to join an eco-conscious, award-winning multidisciplinary consultancy, lending their specialist design services to a multitude of projects across the engineering and environmental landscapes. The client is seeking a passionate, capable Assistant Drainage Engineer to take on challenging projects alongside an established team of flood risk and drainage professionals, working on small, medium, and large-scale projects near Glasgow.

Benefits

• A highly competitive basic salary
• Enrolment in a company pension scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Extensive training schemes and career progression opportunities
• Involvement with a close-knit, award-winning team
• Access to the forefront of innovation, working on high-profile projects

Responsibilities

• Undertake roles in hydraulic modelling, flood risk, flood estimation, and drainage strategy
• Contribute toward residential, commercial, and mixed-use developments across Scotland and further afield, for public and private sector clients
• Complete flood risk assessments, flood risk reports, flood estimation, and surface water management plans
• Design drainage strategies and Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)
• Work on designing access roads
• Utilise design software packages, including Civils 3D, Causeway PDS, InfoDrainage, and AutoCAD

Required skills and experience

• Bachelors or Masters Degree (or equivalent qualification) in Civil Engineering or Hydrology (or similar, relevant discipline)
• Demonstrable experience of working in a UK consultancy or local authority setting, specifically in a design-based role
• Extensive experience of producing flood risk assessments, flood risk reports, drainage strategies, and drainage design using the appropriate design software
• Highly proficient in Civils 3D, InfoDrainage, and Causeway Flow

Desirable skills and experience

• Reside locally, with good knowledge of the region and its characteristics
• Hold a full, valid UK driving licence

If you are interested in the role of Assistant Drainage Engineer, please contact the Civils and Hydrology Team at Penguin Recruitment. Please also see our website for a range of other roles currently available. This is a permanent role. Penguin Recruitment is operating as a recruitment agency in respect to this vacancy.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

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