Principal Rail Drainage Engineer at Arcadis

Birchwood, England, United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

07 Oct, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

09 Jul, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Drainage Design, Technical Leadership, Design Assurance, Stakeholder Engagement, Surface Water Management, Foul Water Management, SUDS, Earthworks Drainage, Rail Infrastructure, Multidisciplinary Coordination, Design Risk Management, Technical Verification, Mentoring, Client Management, CRE, Civil Engineering

Industry

Professional Services

Description

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 & Central Business Unit. 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 take a leading role in design assurance, technical decision-making, stakeholder engagement and the development of high-quality drainage solutions, while supporting project managers and mentoring engineering teams. Role accountabilities: * Provide technical leadership for drainage design across rail and infrastructure projects. * Lead the delivery of complex drainage design packages and multidisciplinary interfaces. * Oversee the preparation, review, verification and approval of calculations, drawings, reports and technical deliverables. * Lead interdisciplinary design reviews and support technical assurance activities, including higher-complexity checking where required. * Provide technical advice and direction to engineers and project team members. * Coordinate workload, resources and priorities across assigned project activities. * Support the management of design risks, assumptions, decisions and technical issues. * Liaise with clients, stakeholders, project managers and approval authorities to support successful project delivery. * Support Project Directors or Project Managers with programme, commercial and change-related project considerations. * Promote technical excellence, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across the team. * Support colleagues working towards CRE or other relevant professional 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/highways drainage. * Experience leading complex design packages and coordinating multidisciplinary technical inputs. * Experience reviewing, verifying and approving technical deliverables. * Strong understanding of design risk management, engineering standards and assurance processes. * Experience providing technical management, mentoring or guidance to engineers. * Strong client-facing, stakeholder management and communication skills. * Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status, or equivalent, is desirable. * CRE experience is desirable; support may be provided for candidates working towards this. 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.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for complex drainage design across rail and infrastructure projects, overseeing the delivery of technical packages and design assurance. Coordinate multidisciplinary interfaces and mentor engineering teams while managing stakeholder relationships and project risks.