This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Flood Risk and Drainage Engineer to join a multi-disciplinary team. In this exciting role, you will help in shaping and delivering Coventry's Flood Risk and Drainage Development Management Service to support our ambition to be a top ten city where everybody can share in the benefits of sustainable growth. The successful candidate will support the Flood Risk Manager in the following key areas: deal with day-to-day review and regulation of planning applications to be compliant with national and local standards together with policy. Aligned to our vision, the successful applicant will promote and deliver sustainable development across Coventry. This post provides a sustainable career opportunity to work within a forward-thinking Flood Risk Management and Drainage team, for which Coventry is recognised.
We are seeking a positive, experienced, enthusiastic, talented, and driven professional who cares about the development of our great city to join our busy, high-performing, forward-thinking team. This is a 37-hour full-time post. Key to this role will be a knowledge of design standards to conduct technical reviews of new residential and commercial development projects at all stages of planning, regulation, construction, and adoption. A working knowledge of relevant planning and technical guidance such as the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), CIRIA SuDS Design Manual, and Sewer Sector Guidance is essential. You will provide clear guidance to developers to deliver compliant and sustainable development, with guidance on design for flood resilience, the review of flood risk assessments, surface water drainage systems, SUDS integrating nature-based solutions, and where necessary, review outcomes of hydraulic modelling of watercourses. Key is also an ability to work successfully with key partners, together with internal and external stakeholders to deliver sustainable development.
In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled, and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remain at the heart of everything we do. Our Values are: Open and fair:
We are fair, open, and transparent. Nurture and develop:
We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best. Engage and empower:
We talk and listen to others, working together as one. Create and innovate:
We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve. Own and be accountable:
We work together to deliver the best services for our residents. Value and respect:
We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do. Coventry has a proud, innovative, and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change. We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant, and diverse. At Coventry, we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together, and find better ways of doing things. To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities. If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit
Coventry Council Vacancies .
Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:
Members of the Armed Forces and veterans Are currently in care or have previously been in care If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition For full details on the application process please read the attached document labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable. Interview date(s): 11 March 2025 #J-18808-Ljbffr
We are seeking a positive, experienced, enthusiastic, talented, and driven professional who cares about the development of our great city to join our busy, high-performing, forward-thinking team. This is a 37-hour full-time post. Key to this role will be a knowledge of design standards to conduct technical reviews of new residential and commercial development projects at all stages of planning, regulation, construction, and adoption. A working knowledge of relevant planning and technical guidance such as the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), CIRIA SuDS Design Manual, and Sewer Sector Guidance is essential. You will provide clear guidance to developers to deliver compliant and sustainable development, with guidance on design for flood resilience, the review of flood risk assessments, surface water drainage systems, SUDS integrating nature-based solutions, and where necessary, review outcomes of hydraulic modelling of watercourses. Key is also an ability to work successfully with key partners, together with internal and external stakeholders to deliver sustainable development.
In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled, and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remain at the heart of everything we do. Our Values are: Open and fair:
We are fair, open, and transparent. Nurture and develop:
We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best. Engage and empower:
We talk and listen to others, working together as one. Create and innovate:
We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve. Own and be accountable:
We work together to deliver the best services for our residents. Value and respect:
We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do. Coventry has a proud, innovative, and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change. We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant, and diverse. At Coventry, we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together, and find better ways of doing things. To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities. If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit
Coventry Council Vacancies .
Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:
Members of the Armed Forces and veterans Are currently in care or have previously been in care If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition For full details on the application process please read the attached document labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable. Interview date(s): 11 March 2025 #J-18808-Ljbffr
