Infrastructure - Networks & Drainage Solutions
Be part of the future of sustainable water assets and utilities
Join our Infrastructure teams and gain exposure to a wide variety of projects across the UK and the world.
It’s a workplace where you’ll have a voice, enjoying the support to grow with your interests, from colleagues who want you to succeed. Using more inclusive, accessible, and sustainable design, you’ll create spaces and places that matter.
We’ll count on you to embrace opportunities to take water and wastewater assets toward a Net Zero future, using cutting-edge solutions. You'll make an impact throughout the lifecycle of utility assets, supporting our clients’ ambitions to be more efficient while gaining exposure to leading digital solutions that enhance both our clients' and our own experiences.
You’ll be part of a diverse and highly skilled team of engineers, geographers, asset management experts, digital thinkers, and consultants. We're all passionate about engineering a better future for our people, our planet and our clients. Jump straight to our latest jobs that are ready to apply to.
Our practice
Asset & Information Management
Our projects span multiple infrastructure clients that range from traditional asset management services through to innovative digital solutions such as digital twins (including Beckton Digital Twin, the largest sewage plant in Europe), which allow informed risk-based decision making, performance optimization, and an enhanced asset maintenance strategy.
Network & Drainage Engineering
You’ll help major water sector clients ensure that clean and wastewater networks operate safely and sustainably, adapting to and mitigating the effects of climate change. As part of our Infrastructure team, you'll apply your expertise to key projects using the latest design methodologies.
Utility Solutions
You’ll develop and deliver digital utility-based solutions in high volumes across the built environment, helping an enviable range of clients design and construct projects safely and efficiently.
Our disciplines
Depending on your area of interest, you can choose where to specialize or take on challenges in several disciplines within the practice. We’ll welcome your skills and expertise to the mix, and you’ll enjoy knowing that everyone is pulling together to get the job done.
FAQ
Asset Management Services
Join a team with a truly transformative approach founded on systems thinking and encompassing all aspects of Asset Management. Working closely with our clients, we use our domain expertise and understanding of the physical assets to develop solutions to their challenges, unlocking value from existing data and digital investments.
As well as offering the full range of asset management consultancy services, you’ll join a practice that is proactively embracing new and emerging digital technologies and techniques. You’ll help our clients to make the best decisions to design, build, operate, maintain and dispose of their assets efficiently and effectively — in rapidly-evolving regulatory, economic, and climatic challenges.
The team works across Water, Defence, Aviation, Energy, and Transportation, with clients including the majority of UK Water and Waste Water companies, South Tees Development Corporation, Network Rail, Environment Agency, (EDF) Sizewell C and many others. Our Asset Management approach is recognized globally, where we support the wider AtkinsRéalis business.
Whether starting out or a seasoned practitioner, you’ll help shape and define our Digital Asset Management Strategy while developing a wide range of services to meet our clients’ growing needs and aspirations.
Bio Resources
As part of the BioResources team, you’ll sit within the Infrastructure Division’s Asset Management Practice, providing asset management, strategy, regulatory, and technical advice to clients in the UK and abroad.
In recent years, the concept of sewage sludge as a by-product of wastewater treatment has gone from waste that requires disposal to a valuable, renewable resource known as BioResources. It’s an essential, leading-edge sector undergoing a global transformation in regulatory, technological and economic change. Net Zero carbon, zero waste and circularity are driving the direction of the water industry and adjacent sectors, and BioResources management is at the forefront of these ambitions.
Your goals will be to deliver effective outcomes, enable new markets and optimize performance. You’ll build on the company’s expertise, developing a more comprehensive range of services to meet our clients’ needs in the transport, treatment and management of BioResources, helping to define the future of BioResources Management.
Alongside our leads, you could drive strategic initiatives, business change and innovative thinking to support our Net Zero ambitions and COP26 goals — or pioneer innovative treatment technologies, keeping our clients ahead of the curve. You could develop BioRefineries of the future, unlocking the full potential of BioResources in an emerging BioEconomy — or provide regulatory and legislative support to set a more resilient future position for this exciting new sector.
Water Supply
You’ll work in teams that solve our clients’ most complex water network problems by providing data-led insights into the performance of their systems.
The team’s role as Clean Water Network Asset Planners allows us to use our engineering and problem-solving skills to benefit our communities. Working with us, you’ll use complex hydraulic models to simulate and ultimately improve the performance of our clients’ networks so that they can sustainably deliver wholesome water to their customers at the service levels they expect.
You’ll join water specialists who protect community health by ensuring access to clean drinking water. Every completed project is a solution that positively impacts human health while advancing industry best practices. Work across every drinking water solution, from installing wells in rural communities to engineering and building sophisticated seawater desalination complexes in dry climates. You’ll provide sustainable solutions for aging water supply infrastructure, service interruptions, and system leaks. Your work will cover all aspects of water transportation and distribution projects, from designing new pipelines to rehabilitating existing infrastructure.
You’ll be known for delivering against all social, environmental, and economic markers of success. From preliminary design, construction and commissioning studies, you’ll enjoy exposure to every phase, including operations and maintenance.
Data & Information Services
Join a diverse group of information management and technology delivery professionals helping project teams and clients to drive value by implementing information and technology solutions across the lifecycle of an asset.
We’ll count on you to bring your skills to the mix and take on opportunities that expand your expertise while making a tangible contribution to the business. Whether it’s information management or document control, experience in designing Digital Twins, enterprise asset management and analytics solutions or knowledge of Operations & Maintenance models—your contribution will be valued equally.
You’ll be part of a practice also extensively involved in professional standards development through the IAM, CDBB, and multiple ISO committees focusing on asset information standards and governance.
Waste & Stormwater Management
Managing surface run-off involves much more than designing pipes, pumps, sewers and ditches. As one of our stormwater engineers, you’ll work with clients such as city planners to manage stormwater collection systems by designing cost-effective, energy-efficient solutions that promote biodiversity and mitigate climate change.
Many existing wastewater and stormwater collection networks were not designed for today’s population level or for the changes brought by global warming. You’ll join a team that remains up-to-date on the best technology and environmental scenarios to help cities and municipalities cope with these challenges.
You’ll be on a team that regularly supports asset owners in predicting and preventing system blockages, breakages or flooding. You could carry out network modelling to mitigate issues long before they become problems, build forecasting systems to provide advanced warning of significant flood events, or develop emergency plans to keep communities safe. You’ll work in teams with significant experience in successful surface water management, from strategy to implementation, surface water drainage to flood risk, sustainable drainage systems (SUDS) to water quality and GIS development to engineering design.
You’ll be part of a practice aspiring to provide industry-leading drainage design services across all Transportation Civil Engineering markets and working in multi-disciplinary teams to support Strategic Rail, Strategic Highways, Cities and Development and Local Transport Markets.
Surface Water & Drainage
Your work will keep communities safe by developing effective surface water management plans and contributing to water cycle studies. You’ll work in teams with significant experience in successful surface water management, from strategy to implementation, surface water drainage to flood risk, sustainable drainage systems (SUDS) to water quality and GIS development to engineering design.
You’ll be part of a practice aspiring to provide industry-leading drainage design services across all Transportation Civil Engineering markets and working in multi-disciplinary teams to support Strategic Rail, Strategic Highways, Cities and Development and Local Transport Markets.
Transport & Distribution
Join a team that provides sustainable solutions for aging water supply infrastructure, service interruptions, and system leaks. Your work will cover all aspects of water transportation and distribution projects, from designing new pipelines to rehabilitating existing infrastructure.
Whether carrying out major construction for local governments or business owners, the team finds ways to minimize impacts and treat each design uniquely, considering owner preferences, operating parameters, and external conditions along the route. You’ll work in a practice that uses cutting-edge technologies and pioneering expertise to change how water supply data is collected. Since water infrastructure is often buried, reliable data collection systems and real-time network controls reveal what’s happening underground. We track pressure and flow, informing maintenance decisions and consumption rates and helping city planners to anticipate future needs.
Utility Solutions
Join our multi-disciplinary team, established 20 years ago, and choose from careers in Product Development, Quality Assurance, Software Engineering, GIS, Utility Consultancy, Process Engineering, Utility Mapping & Coordination, and Business Development.
You could deliver desktop searches for utility locations, provide digital maps on critical utilities, establish project viability, or help deliver our future roadmap of digital products. Whatever you do with us, you’ll be trusted to create data-driven intelligent solutions for safe, efficient planning and building.
The team has developed several geospatial tools and products in-house to rapidly deliver utility data to our clients’ project environments. And you’ll be able to go further, analyzing utility data, to support our clients in planning major utility works.
Our regions
We work on projects in the UK and internationally. Our UK practices span a number of office locations across several regions, so wherever you are based, there’s a place to work nearby:
- London & the South East
- Midlands
- South West & Wales Scotland & the North
- Northern Ireland
Digital solutions
As a digitally minded business, we’ve developed some leading edge solutions for our clients, including SuDS Studio, NetCreate, and RATS. Working with us gives you the opportunity to be part of our innovative community.
Our career markets
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Water
We’ve been designing and building water infrastructure around the world for more than a century. We protect water sources, design water plants, return wastewater safely to the ecosystem, and finalize flood defence strategies. So, you’ll work with environmentally responsible teams who are always pushing research and innovation. Examples of our projects include:
- Beckton Digital Twin, the largest sewage plant in Europe
- United Utilities Asset Information hierarchy definition
- South East Water Asset Information Strategy
- Thames Water Digital Twin Technology strategy
- WaterUK National Biosolids Strategy for England
- NEOM Bioresources Strategy
- Northern Ireland Water Biosolids Strategy
- Water Industry National Environmental Programme
- UKWIR Advanced Thermal Conversion Biochar study
- Net Zero Wastewater
- Egypt Sludge to Energy strategy
Transportation
Our teams are contributing to project that make transportation more intelligent, safer and more reliable than ever . You’ll work on challenges that bring traditional engineering and new technologies together, creating new ideas and finding intelligent solutions and ways to improve existing infrastructure. Example projects include:
- Translink Enterprise Asset Management systems strategy and implementation
- Translink Asset Information Specification development for Maintenance
- East Coast Delivery Partnership Information Management strategy and delivery
Cities & Development
Designing masterplans and innovative smart solutions to tackle some of the biggest challenges in city living, our people work on large, technically complex projects from concept to completion.
Our vision and values
Flexible working
We actively promote a healthy work life balance and support all team members with their personal and work commitments. Making it possible for you to achieve a happy and flexible work-life balance
Engineering Net Zero
Across AtkinsRéalis it is our mission to lead the engineering industry in achieving Net Zero as quickly as possible. Our experience and broad heritage of global innovation, together with our position as an industry leader, allows us to make a real difference in the UKs journey towards Net Zero by putting it at the centre of all our work.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity is at the heart of what we do. At AtkinsRéalis, our community shares the belief that everyone’s voice is valuable and should be treated equally. A community that understands that everyone deserves to feel like they belong. We aim to embed equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do, and to constantly improve gender and ethnic equality. Our employees benefit from a range of staff networks which provide forums through which we can continue to learn from each other and develop a more equitable and inclusive organization.
Safety
We work together and embrace each other's unique contributions to deliver amazing results for all and we put safety at the heart of everything we do, to safeguard people, assets and the environment.
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