Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Are you a Senior Infrastructure Engineer looking for greater ownership, technical influence, and the chance to help shape a growing civil engineering team? This is an excellent opportunity to join a forward-thinking consultancy with a strong development pipeline, a genuinely diverse project portfolio, and a proven commitment to internal progression.
Our client is a well-established civil and structural engineering practice with a growing Civil Engineering department. The team is expanding due to continued workload across residential, specialist, and emerging energy-sector developments.
The Opportunity
This role is ideally suited to an experienced Senior Engineer who enjoys leading technical delivery, mentoring junior engineers, and managing projects from concept through to detailed design and approvals.
You'll work on a wide range of schemes, including:
·Residential developments (typically 200-500 unit schemes)
·Industrial, energy, and waste projects
·Specialist developments, including theme parks and nationally recognised attractions
·Emerging energy-sector schemes, such as battery storage and EV infrastructure, including flood risk considerations
The business places strong emphasis on early-stage involvement, giving you exposure to site appraisals, planning input, and detailed design, rather than being limited to delivery-only roles.
The Role
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you'll take responsibility for the technical delivery and coordination of infrastructure design packages, with a strong focus on drainage-led residential schemes. You'll be trusted to deliver complex designs independently while overseeing and developing junior team members.
You will play a key role in resource planning, technical review, and project management, acting as the main point of contact for design coordination on your projects.
Key Responsibilities
·Independently design full drainage networks to both private and adoptable standards, including S104 agreements
·Produce and review drainage models using Flow and/or Infodrainage
·Lead and review private drainage, external works, and full residential infrastructure design packages
·Deliver highway designs for private developments, including:
oCar parks and access roads
o3D highway alignments with long sections and cross sections
·Manage and coordinate junior engineers and technicians, allocating tasks and supporting their technical development
·Review technical outputs across the team, providing guidance on drainage and highway design principles
·Manage projects end-to-end, including:
oProducing fee proposals
oAllocating resources
oManaging programmes and deadlines
·Liaise with clients, planners, and approving authorities to support planning and technical approvals
You'll have access to a comprehensive suite of modern design software, including:
·AutoCAD
·Civil 3D
·Site 3D
·Flow
·Infodrainage
·Bluebeam (for reviews, mark-ups, and technical documentation)
 
About You
·Strong experience as a Senior Infrastructure / Civil Engineer within a consultancy environment
·Fully competent producing drainage networks independently using Flow or Infodrainage
·Excellent understanding of private drainage and adoptable standards (S104)
·Solid experience delivering residential infrastructure design packages (S38, S104, private drainage, external works)
·Good working knowledge of private highway design standards and 3D highway modelling
·Comfortable reviewing designs and mentoring junior staff
·Experience managing projects, fees, and resources
·Degree-qualified in Civil Engineering or a related discipline
What's on Offer
This consultancy offers a highly attractive package and a genuinely supportive working environment, including:
·High level of technical autonomy and project ownership
·Exposure to diverse and specialist projects, including emerging energy infrastructure
·Clear progression routes toward Principal and Associate levels
·Competitive salary with company-wide annual bonus
·Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
·Top-of-the-range laptop for home and office use
·Company mobile phone
·Birthday leave (additional paid day off)
·EV car salary sacrifice scheme
·Free on-site parking in a sought-after West Didsbury location
·On-site EV charging facilities
·Excellent public transport links, including a tram stop directly outside the office
·Strong chartership support from multiple chartered engineers, with salary and bonus uplifts on achievement
This is an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who wants to step into a role offering technical leadership, variety of work, and long-term career progression within a consultancy that genuinely invests in its people.
 
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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