Water Engineer.

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom BuroHappold Full time
Water EngineerDo you have a flair for the complex? If so, are UK Water Team is looking for a Water Engineer to joining their expanding team.

We are looking to add great people across all grades, who have experience in either Flood Risk Management, Water Resource Management, or Coastal and Maritime engineering. The successful applicant will provide project leadership and technical delivery on projects within the Water Group. Based in one of our UK offices, with some flexible working from home.

From helping shape our environment to adapting to deal with the climate emergency, a career at Buro Happold presents the chance to make a difference. With a world class reputation, our creativity and our people have delivered positive change to clients, the environment, and communities alike. If you want to be part of something bigger, this is your chance.

Key Duties
• Lead whole or elements of projects typically as part of a multidisciplinary offer.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring.
• Work competently on an independent basis, as well as collaborating within the design team.
• Lead and mentor junior team members.
• Lead the development of new technical and service offerings.
• Take responsibility for delivering engineering solutions.

Be Respected
The Water Group works at a range of project scales; from individual buildings through to regional strategies; from feasibility studies at project inception to detailed design and site supervision, practising our expertise across the UK and also the Middle East, North and South America, Africa and Asia. We practise our expertise in the following core areas of the water sector:
• Flood Risk Management
• Water Resource Management
• Coastal and Maritime
• Waterfront development
• River Engineering


Our team has delivered an enviable range of projects of varying scale and complexity. In London, the team has helped to deliver some of the most high profile riverside developments on the Thames including Lots Road Power Station and Battersea Power Station redevelopment. Since we have been “water” at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, taking responsibility for site wide flood risk management, drainage strategy, water strategy and the waterspace masterplan. Outside of London our engineers have delivered lasting, sustainable transformation of the area around Folkestone Harbour. Sandford Hydro is a fine example of our engineers using their hydraulic expertise to create a renewable energy scheme on the River Thames.


The Water Group works across the globe and is able to create lasting change through climate change adaptation and providing resilience to Cities. The Detroit Future Cities and Nairobi Rivers Restoration are two examples where our engineers to have used their skills to identify strategies that can bring lasting change in these cities.

Nowhere is our ability to create change more evident than in the Middle East. The Wadi Hanifah project in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, an exciting and challenging environment for water engineers, is a project that has rehabilitated the wadi, provided resilience in terms of flood risk management and transformed the relationship between the cities inhabitants and the natural environment. This project has spawned a host of projects in the region that build on the success of Wadi Hanifah and further establish our reputation as industry leaders on the region.

Be Proud

About you:

• You will be educated to at least Degree level, with Masters level preferred, and Professionally Qualified if seeking a senior role.
• You will be working towards, or have recently achived, Chartered status with a recognised professional body.
• The members of the Water Group have a range of educational backgrounds. Whatever your degree subject you should be able to demonstrate a passion for a sustainable approach to water.
• You may also have basic programming, modelling, CAD and/or GIS skills.
• You will be a self-motivated, have a keen interest in water engineering, an understanding of climate change adaptation and a desire to learn within the context of a strong, highly skilled team.

What's in it for me?

The chance to take on a leadership role in a growing team, working alongside various environmental and engineering disciplines on some of the most significant projects in the UK. 

Join us to find out what you’re really capable of.

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A place for everyone

Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive. 

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact so we can work with you to support you throughout your application. 

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