Adoptions Engineer

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity?
Join Persimmon Homes as an Adoptions Engineer and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.

We’re one of the UK’s largest and most established house builders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.

At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as an Adoptions Engineer, you’ll benefit from:

• 5
  * house builder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
• Health Care
• Life Cover & Contributory Pension
• Bonus
• Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
• diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development

This is an exciting opportunity for an Adoption Engineer to join the Technical Team. This role typically reports to the Engineering Manager/Technical Director.

The purpose of the role is to support the Engineering team to provide a practical and cost effective adoption engineering service for the regional business. This role involves close liaison with Local Authorities, Scottish Water, Property Management companies and external consultants.

• Producing cost effective technical information regarding sewer adoptions whilst overcoming specific issues and finding efficient solutions for the region to maintain building
• Liaising closely with the Local Authorities regarding technical information for road adoptions and manage this effectively maintain the companies interest at all times
• Ensure the processing of all road and sewer adoption agreements are in time and accurate to maintain the regions level of compliance and responsibility
• Managing the transfer of open spaces, play areas etc. to Management Companies is swift and accurate and in line with company policy to enhance and build partnered relationships
• Ensuring the co-ordination and management of ongoing maintenance issues and remedial works prior to adoption or handover is dealt with professionally and to the highest standards whilst protecting the business interests
  
  Liaising close with engineering colleagues to assist with technical information
• Controlling and reporting on Road Bonds
• Managing external consultants to provide cost effective works in a timely manner

• Ideally HNC/HND qualified (or studying towards) in an Engineering Related Qualification
• Previous experience as an Adoptions Engineer or Drainage Authority
• Competent in AutoCAD, Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel packages
• An eye for detail and be able to work on their own initiative as well as being a committed team player