Job Description

Contract Senior Civil Engineer (Data Centres)

💸£40-£45 per hour

📍 Fully Remote

💰 Competitive Hourly Rate (Outside IR35)

📅 Long-Term Contract (Circa 2 Years)

A leading engineering consultancy is looking to appoint an experienced Senior Civil Engineer on a contract basis to support a growing portfolio of data centre projects.

This is a fully remote role, offering long-term stability and the opportunity to work on technically complex, large-scale developments.

The Role

You’ll play a key role in delivering civil engineering design across multiple data centre schemes, with a strong focus on drainage, levels and environmental compliance.

Responsibilities include:

Flood Risk Assessments (FRA)

Drainage design (surface & foul water)

Levels strategy and earthworks coordination

Supporting the BREEAM assessment (POL 03 – Surface Water Run-off)

Coordinating services and infrastructure layouts on drawings

Working closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver compliant, buildable designs

Software

MicroDrainage / InfoDrainage (essential)

Civils 3D (beneficial not essential)

AutoCAD

About You

Strong experience within UK civil engineering consultancy

Proven background delivering infrastructure design on complex developments

Experience producing Flood Risk Assessments and drainage strategies

Understanding of BREEAM, particularly POL 03, is highly desirable

Comfortable working remotely and managing your own workload

Why Apply?

Fully remote working

Outside IR35

Long-term pipeline of secured work (circa 2 years)

Opportunity to work on high-profile data centre projects

📩 If you’re a Senior Civil Engineer with strong drainage experience and looking for a long-term contract, get in touch to discuss further