The role Join Natural Resources Wales as an Operations Engineer and play a key role in delivering sustainable, safety-first engineering solutions that protect communities and the environment.

As part of our North East Integrated Engineering team, you'll take the lead on planning and delivering flood risk maintenance, capital improvement works, and innovative infrastructure projects. From day one, you'll be at the heart of designing, procuring, and managing civil engineering schemes that make a real impact.

You'll act as a project manager, technical advisor, and health & safety lead-supporting incident response efforts, mentoring junior team members, and collaborating with contractors and partners to ensure successful project delivery. Your work will directly contribute to improving infrastructure resilience and achieving our sustainable management goals.

We're looking for someone with a solid civil engineering background-ideally degree-qualified or holding an HND/HNC with significant experience. A strong understanding of CDM regulations is essential, as you'll help deliver our annual maintenance programme as Principal Designer and support Client duties. Project management skills (Prince2 desirable), a collaborative mindset, and experience managing budgets and technical systems will set you up for success.

This is more than an engineering role-it's an opportunity to help shape the future of climate adapt...