Highway Drainage & Infrastructure Engineer

BBT

Job Description

Our clients existing highway drainage and infrastructure team provides support to Optima Infrastructure Management (Tamworth) and a number of Highways and Transportation offices. They are expanding the team to extend their capability and to provide drainage support to other disciplines .

The client is looking for a suitably experienced Civil Engineer to play a significant role in the management and delivery of highway drainage designs and to assist in the expansion of the team into other drainage areas including Rail.

They have a number of interesting projects including schemes directly for the Highways Agency, let through the HA Safety Standards and Research Framework, for H&T offices and for Optima, the Highways Agency’s Area 11 MAC.

The Highways Agency framework projects offer the opportunity to work at the leading edge of drainage system development and the production of emerging specifications and design guidance for insertion into the MCHW and DMRB.

The team participate in Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) Group and instigate the use of these systems into highway drainage.

They are in the process of tendering several large Design and Build (D&B) projects in the UK and Ireland.

Requirements
Essential

Chartered Engineer (or equivalent)
Technical experience of designing road drainage and associated measures
Strong experience of Highways Agency procedures
Windes modelling
Desirable

Experience of HA216
Highway Agency MAC
Experience of Environmental Assessments
Experience of suitable Drainage techniques

Responsibilities
Carry out drainage design work for a range of projects
Assist other staff in providing technical guidance
Report to the team project leader on progress with projects
Liaise with clients and other parties, notably the Highways Agency
Contribute to winning new work from clients
Contribute to meeting the business goals by working as a key team member
Self development


The Individual
The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic individual who is able to carry out technical design work while providing guidance to others.