Senior Pipeline Infrastructure Engineer in Peterborough

Balfour Beatty plays a key role as part of the Anglian Water One Alliance. The Alliance is a collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry-leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. Together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

As we enter AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period yet, we’re taking on nature-based, sustainable solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We’re setting global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure and empowering our people with exceptional career growth opportunities.

As a Senior Pipeline Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll provide technical leadership, guidance, and assurance on both clean water and water recycling infrastructure projects. Acting as a technical expert in pipeline engineering, you’ll review and approve designs across a wide portfolio, ensuring they are fit for purpose, compliant with legislation, and aligned with the One Alliance standards. You’ll collaborate with a range of stakeholders, mentor junior engineers, and drive innovation to support the successful delivery of AMP8 outcomes.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the review and acceptance of design deliverables, including drawings, models, and calculations, ensuring quality, safety, and compliance with technical standards.
• Provide specialist input into the design of trunk mains, pressurised and gravity sewers, pumping stations, and associated civil and hydraulic structures.
• Support programme delivery by coordinating with Project Design Managers, Principal Infrastructure Engineers, and construction teams.
• Contribute to CDM and commissioning strategy meetings, ensuring health, safety, and welfare are prioritised in design.
• Offer technical expertise in responding to construction queries and design changes.
• Promote innovation, sustainability, and digital design practices to enhance performance and reduce carbon.
• Mentor and support junior engineers, fostering best practice and professional development across the team.
• Collaborate with cross‑disciplinary teams to deliver efficient, cost‑effective, and environmentally responsible solutions.

Who we’re looking for:

We’re seeking a highly motivated and experienced civil or pipeline engineer with proven expertise in infrastructure design. You will ideally have:

• A degree in Civil, Mechanical, or related Engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Significant design experience in sewerage systems, trunk water mains, pressurised and gravity pipelines, and associated civil/hydraulic works.
• Strong understanding of pipe materials, hydraulics, pump stations, reinforced concrete structures, and pipeline protection methods.
• Knowledge of inter‑related engineering disciplines and experience of working within a Design & Build environment.
• Proven ability to lead technical reviews, manage risk in design, and ensure CDM compliance.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
• A track record of mentoring and supporting engineers in their professional growth.
• A commitment to innovation, sustainability, and delivering solutions that protect and enhance the environment.

Place Based Thinking:

The Place Based Thinking team delivers some of the largest and most complex projects across the One Alliance. Made up of six Senior Project Manager teams, we oversee 19 catchments, covering key sites such as Whitlingham, Flag Fen, Great Billing, Cotton Valley, Bedford, Colchester and Ipswich Cliff Quays. These projects involve managing all parts of the network from rising and gravity mains, pumping stations, high spilling overflows, and water recycling centres.

Water:

The Water Business Unit provides strategic support across the clean water network, covering both system performance and infrastructure planning. We assess the future hydraulic state of the network in response to population growth and increased demand, support the design and delivery of capital and infrastructure schemes to ensure hydraulic resilience, and work with optimisation teams to enhance overall network efficiency.

Water Recycling (East and West):

The Water Recycling Business Unit, split into East and West regions, is responsible for the collection, conveyance, and treatment of wastewater across an extensive network. We operate over 76,000 km of sewerage infrastructure and 1,163 treatment centres, ensuring safe and sustainable discharge to the environment while driving innovation and environmental performance.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with one of the UK’s most successful capital delivery alliances. You’ll have the chance to contribute to cutting‑edge projects that shape the future of water infrastructure, working alongside a team of experts across various disciplines. We offer a culture that values innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth, with a focus on delivering sustainable solutions that make a positive environmental impact.

Why work for us:

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us? Benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro‑rata).
• Family‑friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay paternity/partner leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

Diversity and inclusion:

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long‑term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence “Employer Recognition Scheme” and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.