Senior Drainage Engineer - Manchester/Birmingham

Senior Drainage Engineer - Manchester/Birmingham In this role, you''ll help shape and improve drainage infrastructure across Derbyshire, reducing flood risk, protecting communities, and ensuring the county''s highways remain resilient for years to come. Your expertise will influence decisions from the earliest stages of project development through to delivery on site. You''ll work on schemes that directly affect local residents, road users and public infrastructure, helping to solve complex drainage challenges and deliver practical, sustainable solutions. This is an opportunity to apply your technical knowledge where it genuinely matters. You''ll be trusted to bring engineering judgement, challenge assumptions, identify improvement opportunities and help ensure projects achieve the best outcomes for both clients and communities. Whether you''re assessing existing drainage networks, developing innovative solutions or guiding project delivery, your work will have a visible and lasting impact. About the opportunity We''re looking for a Senior Engineer with highway drainage experience to join Derbyshire County Council''s Flood Risk Management Team. Working as part of a specialist drainage team, you''ll support a varied programme of projects, from investigating existing drainage networks and developing feasibility solutions through to detailed design, construction support and scheme delivery. You''ll use site inspections, survey data and drainage modelling tools to identify ..... full job details .....