Senior Drainage Engineer

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Drainage Engineer (specialising in water, flooding, and drainage) to join our Water and Drainage team in Exeter. In this role, you'll take the lead in delivering a range of design projects, ensuring they meet established standards, deadlines, and budget requirements. A full driving licence is essential for this position. Can you imagine a future without resilient water infrastructure? Neither can we! At Kier, we're enhancing water quality and flood resilience to deliver sustainable infrastructure solutions that are vital to the UK. Join our Water and Drainage team, where we work brilliantly together to make a difference—protecting communities and supporting a more sustainable future. Location : Exeter - some remote working available, with travel to the office required Contract : Permanent Fulltime Salary : £43,000 - £46,000 + private healthcare + benefits Responsibilities As a Senior Drainage Engineer, you'll bring specialist expertise in drainage, while also drawing on your knowledge of water utilities and Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA) requirements. This role within Kier Design and Engineering plays a key part in delivering high-impact, meaningful projects. Your day to day will include: Take the lead on technically challenging projects, elements and/or solutions Ensure latest design standards and lessons learnt are applied to projects. Capture risks and clearly communicate the impacts, recommending options and mitigation Lead site visits and investigations activities Deliver projects to established programmes and raise issues likely to affect commercial performance in a timely manner What are we looking for? This role of Senior Drainage Engineer is great if you have: Civil Engineering degree - or a similar combination of qualifications and/or experience Membership with relevant engineering body CSCS card 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 . As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview. Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks. We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier #LI-JB2
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Plymouth
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FullTime

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