Senior Civil Engineer – Highways, Drainage and Infrastructure

Senior Civil Engineer – Highways, Drainage and Infrastructure

Senior Civil Engineer – Highways, Drainage and Infrastructure | Belfast

Join a 40-person Highways, Civil & Transport team delivering technically challenging civil engineering projects across Northern Ireland. This is an opportunity to apply your highways and drainage design expertise across major roads, port upgrades, waterfront regeneration, active travel and wider infrastructure schemes.

As Senior Civil Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and manage day‑to‑day design delivery across highways, drainage and associated infrastructure projects, from feasibility and planning through detailed design, tender preparation, construction support and handover.

You will coordinate multidisciplinary inputs, prepare technical reports and design documentation, and help ensure safe, accurate and robust solutions aligned with DMRB and MCHW standards. Working within a wider multidisciplinary office of approximately 300 professionals, you will collaborate with environmental, structural, wastewater, flooding and other specialist teams.

Projects typically range from £1 million to £100 million and include commercial, residential and mixed‑use developments, public highways schemes, road and sewer infrastructure, port and marine‑related civil engineering, and cycle and pedestrian corridors. You may manage three to five small‑to‑medium projects concurrently or lead major packages within a larger scheme, working with clients, architects, project management consultants and public authorities.

In the short term, you will build strong working relationships, understand internal processes and contribute to live projects across the design and delivery lifecycle. Over time, you could take greater ownership of multidisciplinary coordination, project management, client engagement and stakeholder communication.

The role offers scope to influence major infrastructure outcomes, strengthen technical delivery and support the development of junior engineers. Longer‑term opportunities may include design management, leadership of major schemes, significant client‑facing responsibility and contribution to tenders, work‑winning and business development. Success could be demonstrated through reliable project milestones, high‑quality technical outputs, effective coordination, trusted client relationships and growing team capability.

Bring advanced highways and drainage design capability, with the judgement to develop practical civil engineering solutions from feasibility through construction support. Civil 3D proficiency is essential, while AutoCAD, BIM processes and drainage modelling software such as Flow are advantageous. You will apply DMRB and MCHW requirements to produce accurate, safe and buildable designs, supported by clear technical reports, drawings and design documentation.

Manage design activities across planning, technical drawing production, procurement support, construction‑stage coordination and final handover. You will balance multiple live work streams and maintain focus on programme, quality and cost requirements. Effective coordination with environmental, structural and other in‑house disciplines will be central to delivering integrated project scopes.

Use your experience to guide graduates and engineers, review and approve junior colleagues’ work and provide practical technical support. Alongside delivering your own work packages with autonomy, you…