Principal Highways & Drainage Engineer

We have an opening for a Principal Highways & Drainage Engineer to join our clients busy London office on a full-time hybrid basis. This is an exciting opportunity to join a small Civils team aiming to expand their talent for 2026.

We are ideally looking for someone with 6+ years’ experience in UK based projects, you’ll be joining a team who have significant experience of managing big and complex projects. There is the opportunity for autonomy, ownership, responsibility and a hands‑on approach from yourself with support available from experienced Directors who enjoy coaching and mentoring others.

• Hybrid / Flexible working
• Bonus scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Professional membership paid
• Social events inhouse and externally for networking
• Further progression with enhanced person training
• Inhouse mentors

• To have a Civil Engineering degree and awarded or nearing Chartered status (CEng, MICE, MCIHT).
• Work closely with architects, clients, stakeholders from initial feasibility, through planning, detailed design to onsite construction.
• Understand the client’s brief, scope technical detail, prepare fee proposals, deliver solutions, exceed client expectations.
• Project manage, mentor and share your knowledge with members of the team.

• Commercial management, project management and leading delivery of highway and drainage infrastructure design projects.
• Financial and contractual aspects of the planning of and bidding for projects.
• UK highway and drainage design standards and planning processes, adoption and contract procedures for the provision of infrastructure and regeneration projects.
• Drainage design with experience of national and local policies relating the preparation of Flood Risk Assessments and drainage strategies, including liaison with SuDS approval bodies and drainage adoption authorities to gain technical approvals.
• Expert skills in the relevant software packages.
• Gaining repeat work through excellence in performance and key client contacts.
• Highway design with experience of applying DMRB, Manual for Streets, Local Authority standards and design guidance for the design and technical approvals of S38, S278 and Public Realm projects, including knowledge of Highway Adoption and Stopping Up processes.