Rail Drainage Engineer

Arcadis
Warrington, United Kingdom

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have significant experience in rail and infrastructure drainage design.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with technical leadership experience in rail and infrastructure drainage projects
    — “provide technical leadership for drainage design across rail and infrastructure projects”
  • Individuals who have led complex drainage design packages and managed multidisciplinary interfaces
    — “Deliver complex drainage design packages and coordinate multidisciplinary interfaces”
  • Professionals with a strong background in reviewing and approving technical deliverables
    — “Review, verify and approve calculations, drawings, reports and technical deliverables”

Things to consider

  • The role is based in Warrington, requiring local presence or relocation
    — “join our Rail North West team in Warrington”
  • Professional engineering status is a key consideration for this role
    — “Chartered Engineer (CEng), Incorporated Engineer (IEng) or equivalent professional status”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in leading high-quality drainage solutions on major projects
    — “lead design assurance, technical decision-making and the development of high-quality drainage solutions on major projects”
  • Emphasize your ability to coordinate multidisciplinary technical inputs effectively
    — “coordinate multidisciplinary interfaces”
  • Showcase your track record in managing design risks and technical decisions
    — “Manage design risks, assumptions, technical decisions and engineering issues”
  • Demonstrate your engagement with clients and approval authorities in project delivery
    — “Support project delivery through engagement with clients, stakeholders and approval authorities”
  • Demonstrate your ability to promote technical excellence and continuous improvement
    — “Promote technical excellence and continuous improvement”
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What success looks like

  • technical leadership in drainage design
  • complex project delivery
Typical background
civil engineering degreesignificant experience in drainage design

Skills & requirements

Required

Drainage DesignCivil EngineeringTechnical LeadershipMultidisciplinary Engineering

Preferred

CRE Experience

Stack & domain

Drainage DesignSurface WaterFoul WaterSudsEarthworks DrainageRail Or Highway DrainageEngineering StandardsDesign Risk ManagementTechnical AssuranceTechnical LeadershipTeamworkCommunicationProblem-solvingDecision-makingCivil EngineeringRail EngineeringInfrastructure Engineering

About the role

Original posting from Arcadis

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Description

We currently have an opportunity for a Principal Rail Drainage Engineer to join our Rail North West team in Warrington. 

In this role, you will provide technical leadership for drainage design across rail and infrastructure projects, supporting the delivery of complex multidisciplinary engineering solutions. You will lead design assurance, technical decision-making and the development of high-quality drainage solutions on major projects.

Role Accountabilities

Lead drainage design across rail and infrastructure projects.

Deliver complex drainage design packages and coordinate multidisciplinary interfaces.

Review, verify and approve calculations, drawings, reports and technical deliverables.

Lead design reviews and support technical assurance activities.

Provide technical guidance to engineers and project teams.

Manage design risks, assumptions, technical decisions and engineering issues.

Support project delivery through engagement with clients, stakeholders and approval authorities.

Support programme, commercial and change-related project activities.

Promote technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Support colleagues working towards CRE responsibilities where applicable.

Qualifications & Experience

BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng, or equivalent, in Civil Engineering or a related discipline.

Significant experience in drainage design for rail, infrastructure or related civil engineering projects.

Strong technical knowledge of drainage systems, including surface water, foul water, SuDS, earthworks drainage and rail or highway drainage.

Experience leading complex design packages and coordinating multidisciplinary technical inputs.

Experience reviewing, verifying and approving technical deliverables.

Strong understanding of engineering standards, design risk management and assurance processes.

Experience providing technical leadership to engineering teams.

Desirable:

Chartered Engineer (CEng), Incorporated Engineer (IEng) or equivalent professional status.

CRE experience, or experience working towards CRE responsibilities.

Ready to Apply?

If you're an experienced drainage engineer looking to lead technically challenging rail and infrastructure projects, we'd like to hear from you.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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Source: Arcadis careers

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