Linear Recruitment Ltd Looking for Sustainable Urban Drainage Engineer at Longthorpe, Peterborough Full Time

Our client, a large regional civils engineering company, is looking for a Sustainable Urban Drainage (SUDs) Engineer to join their team!

Reporting into the Project Delivery Manager, the role will entail working with a range of stakeholders, including schools, businesses and councils by presenting and agreeing a jointly developed set of proposals which meets the community needs within safety requirements and business objectives.
The SUDs Engineer will play a pivotal role between the community and project teams, so they will have to be flexible in their approach as they deal with a range of stakeholder with, at times, conflicting opinions and priorities.

Person Specification:
Experience with customer interface to develop, design and promote SuDS solutions.
Experience designing surface water/foul sewer pipelines within the Water and Waste Water Industry, and SuDs features e.g swales, tree pits, balancing ponds, impermeable paving.
High competency in the use of MS office suite to communicate and bring your solutions to life.
Able to develop and communicate technical sketches, ensuring they meet CIRIA and British Standards.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Comfortable in collaborating with a range of people and groups.
Ability to develop reports and data analysis to bring credibility to your ideas.
Working knowledge of CDM2015 and its application to SuDS features.
Willingness to travel and be confident to present to stakeholders and customers in formal and informal settings

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 procurement of Ground Investigation Works and Assembly of permanent works on 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.
Working with surveyors to design solutions, using standard products where possible.
Requires the ability to manage multiple sub-projects at any one time

The salary banding is indicative and dependent on experience. Details on the full package are to be discussed during shortlisting.