Salford Civic Centre
Chorley Road
Swinton
Salford
M27 5AW

Drainage Engineer 
Grade: 3C, £30,451 to £32,910
Working hours: 36 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Salford Civic Centre 
Closing date: 26th November at  23:59 pm 

About us
Salford has changed and is continuing to change; at the heart of our approach are ambitious plans to transform Salford into a modern global city where we can all make a real difference to the lives of Salford people. As a people centred and values-based organisation Salford really is a great place to work. With a positive permission culture and can-do approach, we embrace innovation and encourage performance.  

We currently have an exciting vacancy within our team to enable us to continue to build on our success and bring new experience, knowledge, and ideas into the team.  

About you
Your style and approach will reflect our values: you will be passionate about what you do always striving to improve things; valuing and respecting others’ contribution, you will work together to deliver a better service; you will take pride in always getting things right first time and learn from when things do go wrong; you will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference.  

About the role
The Drainage Engineer role is to provide support to the Flood Risk and Drainage Manager to undertake the statutory requirements set out in the Land Drainage and Flood and Water Management Acts. The role will also require the individual to design, detail, and monitor drainage schemes as bespoke schemes or part of larger multidisciplinary infrastructure and building structures schemes. The role requires the individual to liaise with clients, stakeholders, statutory bodies, and the public.

We look forward to hearing from you!
Please submit an application with your CV and supporting statement, demonstrating how you meet the requirements of the role and what you personally bring. Please refer to the role profile to create your supporting statement.

Job Role.docx
Why work for Team Salford.pdf

Safe working 
We are a Covid-safe organisation and you will have an individual risk assessment when you join the organisation to ensure we effectively support your health and wellbeing throughout your employment.

About your benefits 
You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged and you will have the opportunity to work and grow in a values based organisation where people are at the heart of everything we do. We promote a positive permission culture, empowering you to make a difference. Your opinions matter to us and you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits including flexible working, green travel, pension and salary sacrifice schemes.  In addition to this we offer a range of health and wellbeing options to suit your needs. 

Continuous service commitment 
New employees can now keep their service related benefits when moving between a whole host of public sector organisations within Greater Manchester, which include: Councils, NHS, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Transport for Greater Manchester, as well as many others.

Diversity and Inclusion
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer and a Stonewall Diversity Champion. We understand how hard it can be to combine caring for a loved one with work so we aim to provide support and flexibility to balance family and caring responsibilities with work https://greater.jobs/content/9189/diversity-and-inclusion 

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