Civil Design Engineer Senior/Principle
Role Description & Overview
Senior / Principal Civil Design Engineer
Location: Positions UK Wide, Hybrid to Local Office (up to 4 days from home)
Rate: Based on Experience
Duration: 12 Months+/Ongoing
Sector: Water & Wastewater Treatment - Non-Infrastructure
Are you a Senior / Principal Civil Engineer looking for a new challenge on major UK Water and Wastewater treatment schemes?
You will be working with a major Design & Build contractor delivering clean and wastewater projects across a range of frameworks nationwide. With projects and design teams based throughout the UK, they are looking to recruit additional support across their regional offices.
If you are not based close to one of their offices, they can consider a more flexible arrangement for the right candidate, with travel to an office or site potentially required just once a fortnight.
As a Senior / Principal Civil Engineer, you will be supporting Water and Wastewater treatment projects from feasibility through to detailed and final design. You will be working closely with multidisciplinary teams, reviewing technical designs and helping ensure projects are practical, compliant and ready for successful delivery.
You will be:
- Delivering feasibility, outline, detailed and final design work.
- Reviewing designs, technical specifications and submissions.
- Taking technical responsibility for smaller projects and work packages.
- Supporting key design reviews for Water Authority AMP projects.
- Working on Water treatment works, Wastewater treatment works and pumping stations.
- Providing technical guidance to engineering teams and project stakeholders.
To be considered, you will need:
- A Civil Engineering degree or equivalent qualification.
- Experience delivering projects from inception through to detailed design.
- Previous UK Water or Wastewater sector experience.
- Experience working on AMP-related projects for a UK Water Authority.
- Experience using 3D design tools and relevant engineering software.
- The ability to lead technical work packages and provide confident design input.
This Senior / Principal Civil Engineer role offers the opportunity to take on greater technical responsibility within an established engineering team while contributing to major projects across the UK.
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Key Details
- Date Posted: 22 Oct 2026
- Location: exeter
- Employment: Permanent
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Specialism: Engineering
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