Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Water (Infrastructure)

About the @one Alliance

The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a totally collaborative organisation made up of nine partner companies (Anglian Water, SWECO, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, and Skanska) and an extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.

We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.

With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer’s expectations will come under greater scrutiny.

We need aspiring driven talent to help us achieve our ambitious targets, are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen?

About Sweco

Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work / life balance, we are asking our employees to have office onsite presence on an average of three days a week.

What will you be doing as our new Lead Infrastructure Engineer?

As the Lead Infrastructure Engineer , you will provide civil and pipeline engineering technical reviews, guidance and inputs to both potable water (clean) and water recycling (wastewater) infrastructure (pipelines / networks) projects. You will provide design support for numerous infrastructure schemes and will ensure all designs are fit for purpose and meet current legislation and standards.

You will have dual lines of reporting into both the programme area Senior Design Manager (Engineering) and the Principal Infrastructure Engineer and will provide support to the engineering delivery teams by undertaking review and acceptance of key project deliverables (drawings / models; calculations) across an entire programme area for infrastructure (pipeline) related work. You will be the technical expert in either clean or wastewater pipeline engineering design. Working with the principal infrastructure engineer to maintain engineering standards across all of the @one alliance whilst working on continuous business improvement and innovation. You will also be responsible for mentoring more junior engineers in the team in their professional development and at project delivery level.

Key Responsibilities :

• Collaborate with Design Managers, and Technical Managers to track milestones and review dates.
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers where potential improvement of design calculations, design standards and standard products could be implemented.
• Review project drawings, calculations, and change requests to ensure adherence to standards and timely responses.
• Coordinate and lead design review meetings and contribute to CDM and commissioning strategy discussions.
• Maintain quality through Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) workflow management and support discipline engineers to meet project timelines.
• Promote innovative technologies, manage technical knowledge, and adhere to MAS standards.
• Mentor and guide engineers to develop skills and establish standard procedures.

A little bit about your skills, experience, and behaviours…

To join us on our exciting and challenging journey for engineering excellence, you will preferably (but not essentially) be educated to degree level in water / wastewater engineering or a related subject. Ideally you have a proven track record of operating as a technical expert in the design of potable and wastewater pipelines quality assurance and risk management, including familiarity with design software processes.

You’ll have strong communication and stakeholder management skills, and your proven leadership and mentoring abilities will ensure the best high performing teams succeed.

The role of the Lead Infrastructure Engineer is not to be assigned to deliver individual named projects but provide technical leadership and support in the delivery of the projects in the relevant portfolio - if you are looking for an opportunity to lead and take the next step in your engineering career, please apply today!

OneAlliance vision

A collaborative alliance, driving change. Empowering us to set global benchmarks and building a better environment for our customers. We strive to :

Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance.

OneAlliance Values

To bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop we :

Build trust; Do the right thing; Are always exploring.

The Anglian Water @one Alliance. Nine partners, endless opportunities.

Let’s transform society together at Sweco.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

It’s important to us that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity / paternity.

We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more The Armed Forces Covenant - Our Commitments | Sweco UK .

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If I have a disability, can I get help (e.g. “reasonable adjustments”) with the application process?

If you’re an applicant with a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to use the online application system and need an alternative method for applying, please contact GB_Function-HR-Resourcing@sweco.co.uk for assistance.

In order to address your request the following information is needed :

Upon receipt of this information, we’ll respond to you promptly to obtain more information about your request.

Please note : we reserve the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date.

Sweco UK&I have an internal resourcing team who are responsible for all recruiting activity. We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted agencies who we work with on those “hard to fill” roles.

We have defined processes for recruitment applications and it is company policy not to accept speculative CVs. Any speculative CVs received into the business (whether to a manager or member of the resourcing team) will become the property of Sweco and the agency will not be eligible for an introductory fee.

Our Preferred Supplier List was reviewed in November 2024 and we are not looking to add any additional agencies. We’ll be reviewing the PSL again at the end of 2025 and non-compliance with the above statements could be detrimental to you having the opportunity to be included.

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