Arcadis
Senior Rail Drainage Engineer
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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 Senior Rail Drainage Engineer to join our Rail North West & Central Business Unit. In this role, you will lead the delivery of drainage design packages for rail and infrastructure projects, ensuring high-quality technical outputs are delivered in line with programme, budget and client requirements.
You will support multidisciplinary project teams and provide technical guidance on drainage design solutions, including surface water, foul water, SUDS, earthworks drainage and rail/highways drainage systems.
Role accountabilities
- Lead the delivery of drainage design packages for rail and infrastructure projects.
- Prepare, review and verify drainage calculations, drawings, reports and technical documentation.
- Develop drainage solutions covering surface water, foul water, SUDS, earthworks drainage and rail/highways drainage.
- Use relevant drainage design and modelling tools, such as Infodrainage and CivilStorm to support technical delivery.
- Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure drainage solutions are integrated into wider project designs.
- Support the preparation of approvals and consents from relevant authorities, including LLFAs and Water Authorities.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers and technicians.
- Identify and manage design risks, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and Arcadis requirements.
- Liaise with clients, stakeholders and project teams to support successful project delivery.
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Qualifications & Experience
- BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng, or equivalent, in Civil Engineering or a related discipline.
- Relevant experience in drainage design for infrastructure projects; rail experience is preferred but not essential.
- Experience with surface water, foul water, SUDS, earthworks drainage and rail/highways drainage.
- Experience using drainage design or hydraulic modelling software.
- Experience preparing and checking technical deliverables.
- Understanding of approvals and consents processes involving relevant authorities.
- Ability to provide technical guidance to junior team members.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status with a professional institution desirable.
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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.
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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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