Design Engineer

Client: Principal Contractor (In-House Design Consultancy)

Location: Exeter

Support a major contractors design consultancy delivering detailed drainage and water engineering packages across active infrastructure schemes, including Building & Development, Transportation, Utilities, and Flood & Water Management.

Key Deliverables

• Detailed Design: Deliver coordinated, buildable surface water networks, foul drainage, and SuDS designs to programme.

• Technical Compliance: Apply relevant UK design standards (DMRB, CIRIA SuDS Manual C753, Building Regs Part H, Water Industry Standards).

• Package Control: Own technical task delivery, managing budget, deadlines, and technical query resolutions.

• Multi-Disciplinary Interface: Coordinate with wider structural, highways, and site engineering teams, as well as statutory bodies (EA, LLFAs, water authorities).

• Design Checking: Conduct design reviews, sign off technical calculations, and offer informal task guidance to junior project engineers.

Candidate Requirements

• Demonstrable freelance/contract experience delivering drainage design packages for UK infrastructure or development schemes.

• Strong working knowledge of UK design codes and industry hydraulic modeling tools (e.g., MicroDrainage, InfoDrainage, Civil 3D).

• Autonomous delivery mindset with ability to hit the ground running with minimal oversight.

• Valid Right to Work in the UK, full driving licence, and clear Basic DBS.

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Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

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