SUDS Engineer

Our client is a water and civil engineering contractor with many years’ experience delivering world class projects across the UK and they are currently looking to recruit a SUDS Engineer located in Peterborough.  

Job Description:  

Working with a range of internal and external stakeholders, including schools, businesses, and councils, you’ll propose and agree on a jointly developed set of proposals which meet the community needs within their safety requirements and business objectives.  

As their SUDs Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role between their community and project teams, so you’ll have to be prepared to be flexible in your approach as you deal with a range of stakeholders with, at times, conflicting opinions and priorities.  

Key Responsibilities:  

• Develop designs and coordinate multidiscipline teams ensuring standard products are used where possible whilst ensuring British Standards are applied.  

• Apply fundamental design principles of pipelines (gravity flow), flow in open channels and SuDS features.  

• Provide input to proposals, work scope, work schedule and budgets.  

• Prepare Pre-Construction Information files (PCI) as required in the procurement of Ground Investigation Works and Assembly of permanent works on the Site  

• Understand and implement the hierarchy in risk management in design and be able to highlight Design Risk Assessments  

• Project manage in a proactive fashion ensuring site surveys are incorporated to underpin projects being completed on time, against budget, to the required quality and safely  

• Confidently present solutions to internal and stakeholders with the ability to answer queries and establish revised solutions as required to find ‘win-win’ solutions.  

• Proactively explore innovative SuDS solutions which could be implemented to create efficiencies.

To join their heavily involved infrastructure team in this new position created to enhance their ability to deliver, you’ll have experience with customer interface to develop, design and promote SuDS solutions to complement your experience in undertaking design of surface water/foul sewer pipelines within the Water and Wastewater Industry. You’ll also have high competency in the use of MS office suite to communicate and bring your solutions to life for others.  

Able to develop and communicate technical sketches, ensuring they meet CIRIA and British Standards, you’ll have excellent communication and presentation skills as you look to bring others along for their journey. Comfortable in collaborating with a range of people and groups, you’ll back up your proposals with solid reports and data analysis to bring credibility to your ideas.  

If the opportunity to work with communities and develop industry-leading engineering solutions appeal to your aspirations, please apply today!