Drainage Engineer

Job Description

Circa £44,505 (Dependent on Skills & Experience)

Secondment / Fixed Term Contract – 12 months

Full-time, 37 hours per week

Great Billing, Colchester, Lincoln, Huntingdon or Peterborough

Make every drop of your potential count!

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Drainage Engineer to join our Development Services Drainage team. You’ll play a key role in ensuring new adoptable sewerage assets are designed to national standards and protecting our existing sewerage infrastructure. Working within an experienced team, you’ll review sewer design proposals, assess diversion applications, and provide expert guidance to internal and external customers.

Your work will support sustainable development, regulatory compliance, and excellent customer service while helping shape the future of drainage infrastructure across our region.

What you'll be doing

• Ensure new adoptable sewerage assets meet national Design Construction Guidance and Anglian Water standards

• Assess applications for sewer diversions to protect existing infrastructure

• Provide technical advice on drainage design, sewerage law, and best practice

• Deliver excellent customer service, building strong working relationships

• Support innovative, sustainable drainage solutions and keep up to date with industry developments

• Work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure high-quality asset delivery

What does it take to be a Drainage Engineer?

• Degree or working towards a qualification in an Engineering discipline

• Experience working on sewerage infrastructure design or within another Water Company

• Knowledge of Sewerage Code for Adoption, DCG, and Sewerage Law

• Strong communication, planning, and organisation skills

• Ability to manage competing workloads and act on own initiative

• Excellent numeracy, literacy, and decision-making skills

Benefits

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:
• Personal private health care
• 26 days annual leave (rising with service)
• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches contributions up to 6%
• Bonus scheme
• Access to PPE
• Flexible benefits to support wellbeing and lifestyle

Inclusion at Anglian Water

We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We’re proud signatories of the Social Mobility Pledge, Race at Work Charter, and Armed Forces Covenant, and we’re a Disability Confident employer.

Closing Date: 22nd February 2026

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