Engineer (Infrastructure) United Kingdom Bristol, Derby, Glasgow, York Application Deadline 30 September 2026

Do you want to be a part of a growing Infrastructure Design team? Can you turn complex hydraulic and highway design challenges into clear, buildable solutions? Are you skilled in Civil 3D and drainage modelling software, and eager to use those abilities on some of the UK’s most exciting infrastructure projects? If the answer is yes, read on. This could be the next adventure in your career.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow. We are growing our Infrastructure Design team and looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer with a solid background in highways and drainage to join us. You will work across a varied portfolio — from highway drainage schemes and sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) to rail and water infrastructure — producing designs that genuinely support project delivery. You will have the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most innovative Drainage projects.

Your key responsibilities will:

• Develop drainage and infrastructure designs, including SuDS, culverts, outfalls, and attenuation, from concept through to detailed design.
• Prepare and review calculations, technical drawings, specifications, and design reports, ensuring high standards of quality and accuracy.
• Manage project tasks, coordinate with technicians to translate designs into construction drawings, and attend site visits.
• Liaise with clients and stakeholders, maintaining clear communication throughout the project programme.
• Apply CDM Regulations, including designer responsibilities and design risk assessments.
• Support and guide junior team members, sharing your technical knowledge and helping to build team capability.
• Ensure all work complies with quality, safety, and environmental standards through our Integrated Management System.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future. The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you’ll:

• Hold a master's degree in civil engineering (or equivalent).
• Be working towards Incorporated or Chartered Engineer status (MICE or equivalent).
• Have experience in MicroDrainage modelling, Civil3D and equivalent industry standard modelling and design software.
• Have a range of experience working in a design environment in the UK on a range of highways, rail or water infrastructure projects.
• Be familiar with UK highway and rail standards, water industry standards, and have a sound understanding of CDM Regulations, specifically the designer’s requirements and requirements regarding the design risk assessment process.
• Have experience of working in teams, contributing jointly to delivery and working with technicians to transfer designs into drawings.
• Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Hold a full UK driving licence.

A place to work and so much more. At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer: To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well. Some of our benefits include:

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays.
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities.
• Private health care, for you and a contribution from you for your immediate dependents.
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions.
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions.
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange.
• Life assurance.
• Maternity Leave: 1-20 weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39 Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply).
• Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply).

Optional benefits include:

• Electric vehicle lease.
• Annual Rail card (available for under 30s).

Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.