Rail Drainage Engineer

Overview

In this role you will provide technical leadership for drainage design on rail and infrastructure projects, ensuring high-quality, coordinated drainage solutions. You will drive design assurance, make technical decisions, and guide project teams to deliver complex packages. You will engage with clients and authorities to support delivery and risk management, while promoting technical excellence. This is a chance to shape major rail infrastructure and contribute to Arcadis’ mission of improving quality of life.

Responsibilities

• 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

Key requirements

• BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng in Civil Engineering or 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

• leadership
• stakeholder engagement
• communication
• drainage design for rail infrastructure
• surface water drainage
• foul water drainage

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