Pipeline Engineer in Exeter

Join a specialized, high-performing team at the forefront of infrastructure engineering. As part of our elite Pipe Technology Group, you will help deliver critical water infrastructure projects across the UK and internationally. Our team thrives on solving complex technical challenges in a collaborative, supportive environment where innovation is actively encouraged.

As a Pipeline Civil Engineer, you will provide critical technical engineering across the full lifecycle of major pipeline projects. Working directly with clients and multidisciplinary teams, you will oversee and execute technical deliverables including material selection, structural design of buried pipelines, thrust restraint, and trenchless technologies. Your day-to-day focus involves applying advanced pipeline analysis tools, evaluating rehabilitation options, and leading condition and failure assessments to extend asset life across entire networks and catchments. You will also contribute to project proposals, produce high-level technical reports, and help drive research initiatives alongside industry bodies such as UKWIR and CIRIA.

Your expertise will directly safeguard and modernize essential water networks for communities across the UK and beyond. Moving past standard design routines, you will tackle high-stakes engineering challenges - from determining remaining asset life to delivering sustainable rehabilitation and trenchless solutions that minimize environmental disruption. The frameworks and innovative designs you build will help water utilities build resilient infrastructure, optimize capital investment, and deliver clean, reliable water for future generations.

To succeed in this role, you will bring a strong technical grounding in water industry engineering combined with an analytical, creative approach to problem-solving.

• Qualifications: Degree qualified (or equivalent) in Civil Engineering or a related discipline, holding Chartered or Incorporated status (or actively working toward professional registration with the ICE, CIWEM, or equivalent body).
• Technical Expertise: Proven experience across key pipeline disciplines, such as structural design of buried pipelines (BS EN 1295-1:2019, BS 9295:2020), thrust restraint design (CIRIA C816/Report 128), trunk main design, and thermoplastic/metallic pipe materials.
• Specialist Knowledge: Familiarity with pipeline rehabilitation, trenchless design principles, failure assessments, or piping analysis software (such as CAESAR II).
• Communication & Collaboration: Excellent proposal and report-writing skills, with the interpersonal confidence to liaise effectively with multidisciplinary peers, clients, and key stakeholders.

We put people first: We're proud of our friendly, inclusive, and collaborative environment where everyone feels valued and driven to succeed. We are driven to achieve: Named in the top 50 companies to work by Glassdoor 2025. Recognized by Corporate Knights as one of the world's top 10 most sustainable companies 2025. Named 'Best Place to Work' and 'International Consulting Firm of the Year' at the NCE Awards 2024.

We do what is right: Industry-leading training and development as well as paid-for professional subscriptions. A structured professional progression plan supporting your journey toward full chartership or ongoing senior fellowship. We are better together: A supportive and collaborative team environment, Early Careers peer group, and wider ERG network.

Growth: We're on an exciting growth journey across the UK - we want you to be part of it! Great Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus schemes, enhanced pension plan, annual leave with the option to buy/sell additional days, private medical insurance, group income protection & life assurance included as standard, as well as discounted gym membership and lots more.

Hybrid / Flexible working: Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with our hybrid approach to flexible working.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply. At Stantec we want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all.