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Full-time
bachelor degree, professional certificate
Posted 10d ago
Apply by Jul 27
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The Principal Engineer provides technical leadership for SuDS design and integration across projects for United Utilities. They are accountable for delivering engineering work packages on time and within budget while coaching junior engineers.
Requirements
Candidates must have a degree in a relevant engineering discipline and demonstrable knowledge of SuDS designs. Experience with Microdrainage, InfoWorks, or Openroads and a preference for Chartered Engineer status (MICE or CIWEM) is required.
Full job description
Around the world, SYSTRA’s specialists plan, design, integrate, test, commission, project manage and deliver mass transit and mobility solutions that are relied on by more than 50 million people every day.
For more than 60 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their transport infrastructure with sustainability, accessibility and innovation at the heart of our designs. With over 10,300 colleagues globally and around 1000 in the UK & Ireland we are growing significantly and seeking out the very best talent to join the SYSTRA signature team and be part of leading the way in infrastructure design.
Context
A Principal Engineer in fluvial engineering and SuDS is required to support our delivery of works across our projects for United Utilities. This individual will provide technical leadership across SuDS design and integration with other disciplines. We are looking for someone who has an advanced technical knowledge of SuDS and be able to demonstrate strong understanding of relevant design standards, regulatory requirements and best practice.
The Principal Engineer will be accountable for the design delivery of allocated engineering work packages within our Water team, ensuring the delivery of all the specified project outcomes on time, within budget and to the client’s specifications. The role holder should ensure project requirements are fully met and technically sound design solutions are produced, including all associated reporting and cost estimating, to programme and within budget.
Missions/Main Duties
Working in collaboration with our designers and contract partners, the Principal Engineer will be involved in a variety of tasks such as, but not limited to:
Define the design approach, integrate inputs from multiple disciplines, and resolve standards or stakeholder conflicts as the internal specialist.
Lead production of work packages, breaking work into tasks, estimating inputs, setting dependencies, and maintaining programme, budget, and quality control.
Drive technical excellence and first-time-right delivery, setting QA and Safe by Design checkpoints and approving key technical decisions.
Ensure solutions meet client specifications and acceptance criteria, with clear reporting and cost estimates, delivered to programme and within budget.
Provide day-to-day technical guidance, review, and coaching for engineers and graduates, giving clear direction and constructive feedback.
Develop and document innovative, repeatable methods and tools to address design problems and reduce cycle time.
Allocate work effectively across designers and locations, delegating clearly and reviewing outcomes.
Coordinate UK and international teams (including offshore production centres) to deliver integrated drainage designs with consistent quality.
Lead CDM/design compliance activities, evidencing hazard elimination and capturing lessons learned for continuous improvement.
Profile/Skills
Degree qualified in a relevant Engineering discipline
Chartered Engineer, MICE or CIWEM preferred
Essential demonstrable knowledge of SUDs designs
Experience of working on infrastructure, transportation or civil engineering project
Software - Experience of using Microdrainage and/or InfoWorks, Openroads
Experience of team leadership (line management and/or virtual project team)
Workplace Type
Hybrid
Related keywords
Fluvial EngineeringSuDSUnited UtilitiesMicrodrainageInfoWorksOpenroadsMICECIWEMChartered EngineerCDMSafe by DesignHydraulicsDrainageInfrastructureCivil EngineeringTransportation
SYSTRA is one of the world's leading engineering and consultancy groups specialising in public transport and mobility solutions. For more than 65 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions to contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their transport infrastructure.
With its 11,000 employees, the Group's mission is to connect people and bring territories closer together in the 80 countries where it operates. By making travel more fluid, the infrastructures designed by SYSTRA bring communities together, develop social integration and facilitate access to employment, education and leisure.
A signature for transport solutions, SYSTRA supports its partners and clients throughout the lifecycle of their projects. SYSTRA is involved at a very early stage in the design phase, right through to the deployment and maintenance test phases. SYSTRA provides all of its services in more than 80 countries worldwide and generates 80% of its turnover internationally.
KEY FIGURES
- €1.3 bn in sales in 2024
- 2nd international engineering company for Mass Transit & Rail*
- 3d for Bridges*
- 6th in the Transport sector*
* Engineering News-Record (ENR) ranking, 2025
SYSTRA is one of the world's leading engineering and consultancy groups specialising in public transport and mobility solutions. For more than 65 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions to contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their transport infrastructure.
With its 11,000 employees, the Group's mission is to connect people and bring territories closer together in the 80 countries where it operates. By making travel more fluid, the infrastructures designed by SYSTRA bring communities together, develop social integration and facilitate access to employment, education and leisure.
A signature for transport solutions, SYSTRA supports its partners and clients throughout the lifecycle of their projects. SYSTRA is involved at a very early stage in the design phase, right through to the deployment and maintenance test phases. SYSTRA provides all of its services in more than 80 countries worldwide and generates 80% of its turnover internationally.
KEY FIGURES
- €1.3 bn in sales in 2024
- 2nd international engineering company for Mass Transit & Rail*
- 3d for Bridges*
- 6th in the Transport sector*
* Engineering News-Record (ENR) ranking, 2025