Senior Engineer - Urban Development

Location: United Kingdom, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom, Bristol, United Kingdom, London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Department: Civil Engineering

Work Location: onsite

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

The Places Design Practice is seeking a Senior Engineer with proven experience in the design and delivery of civil engineering and urban development elements within building projects. You will cover areas such as:

• Surface and foul drainage
• Utilities and utility coordination
• Groundworks / earthworks
• Highways interfaces

You will support Urban Development services across the Places Design Practice, collaborating with cross‑GBA teams, GEC and global Places specialists. Experience in Industrial Manufacturing, Technology or Defence projects is a strong plus.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead sustainable engineering; embed Arcadis H&S.
• Collaborate across disciplines to deliver integrated solutions.
• Set and drive collaboration with global teams.
• Manage design outputs: drawings, BIM, reports, specs.
• Attend meetings; review and assure quality.
• Maintain engineering governance aligned to Arcadis IMS.
• Own Designer Hazard Logs; communicate residual risks.
• Plan and coordinate tasks, people and resources to programme and budget.
• Own Design Decision Logs and Assumptions.
• Be technical lead; resolve issues and mentor junior staff.

Qualifications and experience:

• Degree qualified; Chartered or Incorporated (near‑chartered considered).
• Proven civil/urban development design delivery on building projects: drainage (surface & foul), highways, utilities.
• Proficient in MicroDrainage/InfoDrainage, AutoCAD Civil 3D and BIM.
• Strong knowledge of SuDS, Sewers for Adoption (SfA), DMRB and Building Regulations.
• Project management experience: planning, scheduling, commercial and client management.
• Demonstrable leadership: directing teams and supporting development.
• Strong technical judgement; evidence‑based problem‑solving and ability to perform manual calculations.

If this role matches your experience and career goals, we’d love to hear from you — please apply 

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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