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Posted Date:  22 Oct 2025
Posting End Date:  9-Nov-2025
Location:  Derby
Company:  Severn Trent Water
Department:  Capital Design
Salary (£):  Competitive

Senior Design Engineer

 

Join Our Team as a Senior Design Engineer!

 

At Severn Trent, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re in the top 5% of utility companies worldwide when it comes to employee engagement and ranked as a Top 50 UK Employer on Glassdoor. Join us in making a positive impact on the environment and our communities, while being valued and supported in a truly inclusive workplace.

 

Are you passionate about tackling climate change and making a positive impact on the environment? Our ambitious five-year programme, featuring over 5,000 innovative projects, is dedicated to overcoming the challenges of delivering exceptional water and waste services. With our dedicated in-house design team, we are set to achieve outstanding results and make a significant impact.

 

About the Role

 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Design Engineer in either Process, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. The role will be based in Raynesway (Derby). The role will sit in our expanding our major projects and bioresources waste treatment design team. Our Design Team use their technical skills to shape the wastewater strategies for the company, providing expert advice to lead projects from feasibility to detailed design to support the Severn Trent goals.

 

You will work with our stakeholders, consultants and contractors to protect and enhance the quality of our bioresources assets; interrogate and make improvements to our data systems; undertake investigations; undertake outline designs so that we have the best evidence available from which we can make sound decisions. 

 

Key Responsibilities

 

  • Sewage treatment assets - understanding our existing bioresources assets, completing risk assessments, undertaking outline designs for new assets to meet new business needs and short-to-long-term complex investigations
  • Developing strategies to allow us to enhance the existing assets and inform the Price Review regulatory submissions; collaborating across the business as we build our river quality, sustainability and net zero carbon plans influencing the business to transition away from traditional investment routes
  • Carry out self-led research on emerging technologies, to define new innovative treatment options and collaborate both internally and externally to promote new strategies
  • Promoting our ongoing bioresources capital maintenance programme; ensuring that we have robust evidence-based understanding of how our bioresources assets work to ensure sludge compliance is maintained
  • Tactical support and advice to operational teams to maintain the availability and quality of our bioresources services for our customers
  • Understand and review potential delivery and operational risks e.g.H&S, environmental, commissioning through the design process 
  • Ensure Health and Safety are built into the lifecycle of the design 

 

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

 

You’ll be degree qualified (desirable) and showing your professional commitment as a member of one of the engineering Institutions or actively working towards incorporated or chartered status, a journey which we are keen to support you on. Having a bioresources background would be great but not essential however an engineering discipline would be required. 

 

You will have excellent internal and external stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships with a diverse range of people. You will be a forward-thinking capable of anticipating challenges and responding to change in a rapidly evolving environment.  A full UK driving licence will be required.

 

Of course, it’s important that we attract the right skill sets, and those with the right experience but we value character, positivity and a caring attitude in equal weight.

We do more, because we care.

 

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

 

Working here isn’t just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent. We’ll reward you for it, too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential.

Here are just some of our favourite's perks that you’ll get being part of the Seven Trent family: 

 

  • 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year) 
  • Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,250, which is subject to eligibility)
  • Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)  
  • Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
  • Dedicated training and development with our Academy 
  • Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers 
  • Family friendly policies 
  • Two paid volunteering days per year 

 

WHATS NEXT?

 

We can’t wait to hear from you.

Before you apply, you’ll need an updated copy of your CV and about five minutes to spare. We’ll always let you know the outcome of your application after the closing date - so keep an eye on your phone and emails!

And if your curiosity has peaked and you're wanting to find out even more, search #LifeAtSevernTrent on social media.

 

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