# Principal / Associate Drainage Engineer (Development)

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Basingstoke, Hampshire
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal / Associate Drainage Engineer (Development) to join our team in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

As a Principal / Associate Drainage Engineer, you will lead the day-to-day technical delivery of civil engineering consultancy services to support our clients through all stages of the project life-cycle from feasibility and concept design through to planning, detailed design, and construction.

You will provide technical expertise in drainage, SuDS, flood risk, highways, streetscape, earthworks, and utilities to all types of land, property, and infrastructure development projects across all sectors and clients.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing project leadership on several varied multi-disciplinary projects acting as Project Manager where required

- Supporting a team of experienced and developing technical staff of various grades

- Engaging in high-profile client engagement, stakeholder management, design team collaboration, and project management

- Ensuring projects are delivered within budget, on programme, and to the required quality for technical and legal compliance

Requirements:

- Knowledge of and experience in highway design, drainage strategies and technical design, flood risk assessments and management, utility design and planning

- Design experience focused on the development sector (drainage, flood risk, highways, earthworks, and utilities)

- Knowledge and experience of hydraulics, hydrology, geotechnics, and building structures

- Ability to produce infrastructure masterplans, site appraisals, technical reports, design calculations, and construction drawings

- Familiarity with relevant design codes such as Water UK Sewerage Sector Guidance, Design Manual for Roads & Bridges, Manual for Streets, Local Authority Design Guidance, SuDS Manual

- Awareness of current and emerging technical and planning guidance on climate change and sustainability

- Experience of liaison with clients, co-professionals, and design teams

- Competence in liaising with highway, water, statutory, and local authorities

- Postgraduate (or equivalent) experience and nearing Chartership or equivalent commercial experience and responsibility

We offer a range of benefits and opportunities for professional growth and development.

## Skills

### Required
- highway design
- drainage strategies
- flood risk assessments
- utility design
- hydraulics
- hydrology
- geotechnics
- building structures
- infrastructure masterplans
- site appraisals
- technical reports
- design calculations
- construction drawings
- Water UK Sewerage Sector Guidance
- Design Manual for Roads & Bridges
- Manual for Streets
- Local Authority Design Guidance
- SuDS Manual
- Micro Drainage
- Info Drainage
- Civils 3D
- PDS

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