Principal Civil Engineer; Water

About the @one Alliance

The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a collaborative organisation made up of nine partner companies – Anglian Water, SWECO, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, and Skanska – and an extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

As a Principal Civil Engineer within one of Sweco’s four business units, you will provide engineering technical direction, collaborate with key stakeholders, support multi‑disciplinary project teams, and ensure designs are fit for purpose, meet legislation and standards, and are delivered on time and within budget. A key part of the role is to lead, coach and develop junior and less experienced engineers.

• Check and review civil design deliverables produced by other civil engineers to ensure processes and procedures are followed.
• Contribute to Construction Design Management (CDM) and commissioning strategy meetings.
• Verify that CDM deliverables have been completed for projects.
• Maintain portfolio awareness in technical areas and disseminate knowledge across the civil engineering team.
• Ensure compliance with Minimum Asset Standards and provide constructive challenges when necessary.
• Work across Alliance project areas and Pan‑Alliance to establish technical common standards and processes.
• Implement and embrace new digital technologies to achieve fully attributed 3D models.
• Provide one‑on‑one or team‑based technical guidance and support to engineers.
• Develop design alerts to promote continuous learning and improvement.

• Degree in engineering (or equivalent) and ideally chartered or working toward chartership.
• Expertise in reinforced concrete, steel buildings, buried pipework and site infrastructure.
• Strong leadership, mentoring and stakeholder management skills.
• Passion for health, safety and innovative design solutions.

• Flexible and hybrid working (Flexworks Policy)
• Competitive pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Private medical insurance
• Company car or car allowance
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Payment of two relevant professional subscriptions
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days per year
• Cycle2
  
  Work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (wellbeing, mental health, financial and work advice)
• Employee discounts via Sweco Benefit Select (Faircare)
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme
• We plant a tree for all new starters

We are an accredited Real Living Wage Employer and a Disability Confident committed employer. Sweco promotes equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, maternity/paternity or armed forces service. All employees enjoy a supportive and inclusive culture that values individual contributions.