At Affinity Water, our Design team plays a vital role in making the application and quotation process simple, clear, and efficient for our customers.

We’re looking for a Design Engineer to join us on a 18 month FTC to deliver high-quality water mains designs while supporting customers through the early stages of their journey. From application through to payment, you’ll ensure designs are accurate, cost-effective, and easy to understand.

You’ll work closely with customers, contractors, and internal teams to produce compliant designs, challenge costs, and ensure schemes are ready for delivery. With a strong focus on safety, water quality, and minimising disruption, you’ll also carry out the Designer role under CDM, ensuring risks are identified and managed from the outset.

What you’ll be doing:

• Producing and reviewing water mains designs, including third-party submissions

• Supporting customers through applications, design, and cost queries

• Ensuring designs meet safety, regulatory, and company standards

• Collaborating with contractors and stakeholders to deliver efficient solutions

• Preparing design documentation, cost advice, and construction information

What we’re looking for:

• Experience in a design or engineering role within utilities

• Strong understanding of water networks and customer-focused delivery

• Proficiency in AutoCAD and strong technical capability

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Must be able to travel into our Hatfield office a min of 2 days per week
  

Benefits:

• Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 dependant on skills and experience

• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.

• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.

• Annual leave from 23-27 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.

• A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.

• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)

• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.

• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.

• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.

• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets and on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme.

• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.

• Life Assurance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.