Infrastructure Engineer
Are you an Infrastructure Engineer with a passion for drainage-led design and development infrastructure? Do you want exposure to genuinely diverse projects, emerging sectors, and a clear route to progression within a supportive consultancy?
Our client is a highly regarded and growing civil and structural engineering consultancy, looking to strengthen their Civil Engineering department, which currently consists of a well-balanced team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a business with a strong pipeline of work, a collaborative culture, and a proven track record of developing engineers through to senior and chartered levels.
The Opportunity
You'll be working on a purposely diverse project portfolio, providing long-term career development and variety. Projects span:
·Residential developments
·Industrial, energy, and waste developments
·Specialist and landmark projects, including theme parks and national attractions
·Emerging energy-sector schemes, such as battery storage facilities and EV infrastructure, including flood risk considerations
The role offers full lifecycle involvement, from initial site appraisals through to planning and detailed design, giving you real ownership and visibility across projects.
As an Infrastructure Engineer, you'll play a key role in the delivery of development-led infrastructure schemes, with a strong emphasis on drainage design. Drainage experience is particularly important, as most projects require modelling and detailed network design.
You'll be trusted to manage your own workload while working closely with Senior and Principal Engineers, contributing to high-quality, commercially aware design solutions.
Key Responsibilities
·Design drainage networks in both plan and fully modelled form using Flow and/or Infodrainage
·Produce private drainage designs, including Section 104 agreements
·Support and deliver highways design, including:
oPrivate road layouts, car parks, and access roads
o3D highway designs with long sections and cross sections
·Deliver infrastructure designs across:
oS38, S104, S278
oPrivate drainage, external works, and cut & fill analysis
·Assist with site appraisals, assessing drainage and level feasibility at early stages
·Manage your own time and workload in line with project budgets and fee allocations
·Collaborate with planners, clients, and external stakeholders to support successful planning and technical approvals
You'll have access to a comprehensive and modern design toolkit, including:
·AutoCAD
·Civil 3D
·Site 3D
·Flow
·Infodrainage
·Bluebeam (for sketches, mark-ups, and document production)
About You
·Experience as an Infrastructure or Civil Engineer within a consultancy environment
·Strong grounding in drainage principles, particularly private drainage and S104 agreements
·Working knowledge of highway design standards, especially for private developments
·Comfortable producing designs independently while working under senior technical guidance
·Able to manage your own workload and understand project budgets and deliverables
·Degree-qualified in Civil Engineering or a related discipline
Experience in residential drainage and external works design is highly desirable, but exposure to other sectors will naturally develop within the role.
What's on Offer
This consultancy genuinely invests in its people and offers a standout package, including:
·Exposure to multiple sectors, including specialist and emerging markets
·Clear and proven progression routes - many senior engineers started here as graduates
·Competitive salary with end-of-year bonus paid to all staff
·Flexible hybrid working and work-from-home opportunities
·Top-of-the-range laptop provided for home and office use
·Company mobile phone
·Birthday leave (additional paid day off)
·EV car salary sacrifice scheme
·Free parking in a highly desirable West Didsbury location
·On-site EV charging
·Excellent public transport links, including a tram stop directly outside the office
·Strong chartership support (IEng / CEng) from multiple chartered engineers, with salary and bonus uplifts upon achievement
 
This is a rare opportunity to join a consultancy that combines technical excellence, genuine flexibility, and long-term career progression, all while working on projects that are both varied and technically engaging.
 
 
FOOTNOTE:

If you feel that you are right for this role technically, but the salary, location or seniority does not suit you specifically then please still feel free to send us your CV. We constantly recruit for roles very similar to this one at all levels UK Wide. We are always keen to chat with you discreetly about your employment situation.
Even if you are happy in your current role for now, we always welcome calls from Highways, Infrastructure & Transportation professionals keen to make their introductions for future months or years. Carrington West's Highways, Transport & Infrastructure division is the fastest growing in the country, our specialist team has a combined over 100+ years' experience in this market. Please call Eve Armstrong at Carrington West on 023 9387 6062 for more information.
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