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Principal / Associate Director - Drainage Engineering

WSP senior full-time

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Description

Join WSP's growing Drainage Engineering team in the South East as a Principal or Associate Director. You will help shape water, drainage and environmental solutions for some of the UK's most exciting transportation infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities:

  • Delivery of a wide variety of civil engineering projects, such as highway, rail, infrastructure and site development schemes.
  • Delivery of projects from concept through to completion and ensuring they are delivered to a high technical standard, in a timely manner and with commercial success.
  • Delivering a broad range of drainage services for the most significant transport and infrastructure projects in the UK.
  • Lead client relationships and attend client progress meetings.
  • Manage a team of drainage engineers, supporting their technical development and ensuring they are resourced on projects.

Requirements:

  • Chartered or Incorporated Engineer and/or degree qualified (role dependant)
  • Extensive and proven experience post degree in designing sustainable drainage solutions
  • Knowledge and understanding of drainage design principles and solutions to manage infrastructure drainage
  • Experience in the use of Civil 3D and/or Causeway Flow software/MicroDrainage
  • Proven knowledge of relevant technical standards, UK Building Regulations, Design Standards, Codes of Practice and Health & Safety regulations
  • Successful management of projects/programmes and teams to meet both quality and commercial targets
  • Technical experience in one or more of the following areas: Highway Drainage, Rail Drainage, Airport Drainage, Asset Management, Foul water, Sustainable foul and surface water drainage design, Drainage modelling software (Causeway Flow or Microdrainage)

Skills

Required

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