AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Principal Civil Engineer - Drainage to lead drainage design projects from concept to detailed design for Council and Water Company clients in Scotland. This role involves technical leadership, mentoring junior engineers, ensuring compliance with standards, and contributing to bids and client relationships within a multi-disciplinary environment.
What You'll Do
- Leading the design of drainage designs from concept to detailed design, as stand-alone projects or as part of larger multi-disciplinary schemes.
- Promoting development of digital solutions in drainage design.
- Overseeing and reviewing the production of drainage designs, models, calculations and drawings to relevant standards, including providing technical assurance of designs.
- Determining and assigning drainage design tasks and managing delivery to programme and budget.
- Leading and encouraging the technical development of apprentices, graduate and assistant engineers in the drainage discipline.
- Ensuring compliance with business management standards set in the company’s quality, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
- Managing and developing client and stakeholder relationships to support the development of the drainage design and consents process as well as helping to secure repeat work.
- Supporting the drainage discipline locally to develop and enhance the drainage design capability within the local team.
- Leading drainage designs, managing the interface and providing technical assurance for drainage designs produced in our Global Design Centre.
- Championing the role of drainage within a multi-disciplinary project.
- Providing technical input to the preparation of bids including provision of Quality Submission responses on drainage strategy and design approach and input to price via preparation of fee proposals and associated program for delivery including assessment of risk.
What We're Looking For
- Ability to design all aspects of drainage from conceptual layout to detailed design.
- Familiarity with hydraulic design software, 3D design tools and BIM.
- Ability to prepare reports and specifications and to collect other data and statistics necessary for the preparation of progress and technical reports.
- Ability to identify and respond to our clients’ values in a competitive market sector.
- Candidates are required to be self-motivated and able to work both independently as well as within a larger multi-disciplinary team in leading and managing packages of work to completion.
- Ability to identify, manage and develop project scopes and manage budgets, programme and the quality of deliverables.
- A flexible individual, a team player, with a developed attention to detail, shows initiative, proactive and able to deliver to set deadlines.
- Supportive approach to mentoring less experienced members of the team.
- Good leadership qualities.
- Experience in working for both private and public sector clients and knowledge of the different drivers and approaches to management and procurement.
Nice to Have
- Ideally Professionally Qualified with the ICE, CIWEM or similar.
Technical Stack
- hydraulic design software
- 3D design tools
- BIM
Team & Environment
- Existing teams in Glasgow or Edinburgh offices
- Multi-disciplinary team within national Practice with local and remote collaboration
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salaries
- Employee rewards
- Tailored health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle benefits
- Opportunities for training and professional development
- Hybrid working culture
- Flexible holiday allowances
- Family friendly and inclusive employment policies
- Flexible working arrangements
- Employee resource groups
Work Mode
- Hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance work and personal life
- Locations: Glasgow, Edinburgh
We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.
