Senior Civil Engineer - Water / Wastewater
HybridBristol, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead defined civil design tasks across feasibility, optioneering, concept, outline, and detailed design for water, wastewater, and biosolids treatment projects. Prepare, check, and coordinate deliverables including calculations, layouts, models, drawings, and technical reports while managing technical quality, discipline interfaces, scope, budget, and programme. Take ownership of assigned civil packages and lead site visits, surveys, and technical discussions with clients, operators, contractors, and suppliers. Develop practical civil design solutions and hydraulic models for treatment works, tanks, channels, and drainage systems, coordinating interfaces with process, mechanical, structural, and geotechnical teams. Support CDM/safety-by-design reviews, design risk assessments, and technical assurance processes. Mentor engineers and graduates while contributing to design standards, templates, and digital workflows. Support business development through bid inputs and technical responses.
Required Qualifications
- BEng/MEng or equivalent in Civil Engineering
- Chartered Engineer status, or significant CEng-level experience while actively progressing towards chartership, with a recognised institution such as ICE or similar
- Typically 6+ years' relevant civil engineering design experience
- Background must be from water, wastewater, biosolids/bioresources, environmental infrastructure, process/treatment works or other relevant civil engineering design environments
- Proven ability to deliver civil design packages within multidisciplinary water/wastewater projects, ideally including non-infrastructure treatment works
- Strong practical experience in civil layouts, hydraulic structures, tanks, chambers, drainage, site development, pipework corridors, foundations, retaining structures, access, constructability and buildability
- Experience supporting HAZOPs, SWIFT reviews, constructability reviews, temporary works discussions, technical assurance, commissioning, handover or performance testing
- Ability to prepare and check civil calculations, drawings, models, specifications, reports, schedules and procurement/supporting documentation
- Working knowledge of UK water industry standards, CESWI, CDM 2015, safety-by-design, sustainable design principles and relevant client standards
- Experience using civil design software and digital delivery environments such as Civil 3D, hydraulic modelling tools (e.g. HADES), GIS platforms and BIM-enabled workflows
- Good commercial awareness and ability to deliver to agreed scope, budget and programme
- Strong communication skills, including ability to lead technical discussions and present recommendations clearly
- Able to travel to operational works and construction sites as required and act safely in live water/wastewater environments
- Right to work in the UK
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with AMP8, WINEP, SROs, D&B, alliance or major capital delivery environments
- Experience in water recycling/reuse, wastewater treatment, sludge/bioresources, energy recovery, odour control, chemical dosing, package plant, reed beds/NbS, low-carbon design or offsite manufacture
- Experience mentoring junior staff and improving civil workflows, design templates, technical standards or QA processes
- Experience contributing to bid writing, technical proposals, client presentations, recruitment or capability development
Hiring someone like this?
Get your role in front of qualified candidates on Sorce.