Senior Engineer; River and Coastal Resilience

Senior Engineer (River and Coastal Resilience)

Region:
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United Kingdom (UK) Industry Sector:
Marine Jobs , Waste Jobs , Water Jobs , Environmental Jobs , River Jobs , Built Environment Jobs , Maritime Jobs , Coastal Jobs , Stakeholder Engagement Jobs , Sustainable Building Jobs , Sustainable Development Jobs , Water Industry Jobs Job Category:
Construction , Engineering , Specialist & Technical , Reporting , Civil Engineering , Infrastructure , Marine Engineering , Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) , Structural Engineering Job Type: Permanent Education Level: Please see job description Salary

Description:

Competitive Salary + Excellent Range of Benefits Posted: 26/08/2026

Start Date:

ASAP Recruiter:
Haskoning Job  - 5374 Closing Date: 30/09/2026

Senior Engineer (River and Coastal Resilience)

Location
:
Brighton | Peterborough | Leeds | Exeter | Newcastle

Are you looking for your next career step? Do you want the opportunity to work on a broad range of fluvial and coastal flood risk management projects, utilising your technical skills and experience to help support our clients with the development of their projects? This role will provide you with this opportunity whilst working within a market leading climate resilience team.

Job role:

We require an enthusiastic, optimistic, conscientious and talented senior engineer with excellent communication skills and technical ability. The candidate will need to be an efficient worker, enjoy the opportunities of a growth-orientated environment and must be able to work in a team and independently. The role will require close working with members of the various climate resilience teams across the UK and in Europe, as well as with staff across other Business Lines.

The candidate will be responsible for the delivery of coastal and flood defence projects ranging from feasibility to appraisal studies, outline design, detailed design and support during construction. It is likely that the candidate will be working and supporting on several projects simultaneously.

The successful senior engineer candidate will be expected to:

• demonstrate Health, Safety Wellbeing and Integrity throughout all your actions, and promote sustainable approaches. in line with the company’s polices (e.g. social/environmental enhancements, carbon reduction etc.)
• have experience of developing successful river engineering and/or coastal projects;
• have a good understanding of hydraulics, geotechnics, structures and materials;
• implement projects using digital engineering/3D design and applying BIM;
• be able to plan your own time, be organised and meet deadlines;
• work on own initiative and also as part of a team;
• have excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• have experience of preparing technical project reports including feasibility studies, option appraisal reports and business cases;
• have experience of preparing detailed designs and Works Information packages for river and/or coastal structures;
• check the work of others;
• have experience of leading design teams;
• have site experience as Contractor or Designer;
• be familiar with design and construction contracts and construction processes
• manage and direct more junior staff and coach junior staff in technical matters;
• have the ability to work effectively and be persuasive in a multi-functional project team;
• participate in developing a network for business development and provide technical inputs in bids as required.

Below are a number of projects that we have recently been or are currently involved in and provides a flavour of the type of projects you could get involved in as Senior Engineer:

Southsea coastal scheme – we are the lead designer for the prestigious, 4.5km-long Southsea coastal defence scheme in Portsmouth worth more…