Remedial Drainage Engineer
Are you an experienced Drainage Engineer?
Do you hold a Full UK manual Driving licence?
We are currently recruiting for a Remedial Drainage Engineers to join the team.
The main purpose of this Remedial Drainage Engineer role is to support the planned and reactive drainage works.
Benefits include:
- Competitive salary, + night enhancement + overtime
- Company Van
- Company Fuel Card for performance of duties
- Free Uniform
- Company Mobile Phone for performance of duties
- Personal Accident Cover (Eligibility after 1 year’s service)
- Life Insurance (Eligibility after 1 year’s service)
- Access to virtual GP (Eligibility after 1 year’s service)
- Early Christmas Pay – monthly pay day 25th, December pay usually 1 week earlier
- Employee assistance programme – Access to 24-hour advice line
- Metcor Hub – Benefits/Savings/Perks
- Annual leave
- Pension
- Social Events
This role is full-time and permanent.
Reporting to the Operations Manager your responsibilities will include:
- Carry out coded CCTV surveys (coding essential; OS19X desirable but not essential) and interpret findings to produce structured remedial recommendations.
- Read and interpret as-built and utility drawings to support full system tracing and planning of remedial works.
- Produce draft drainage plans mapping manholes, main runs, laterals and assets.
- Operate jetting and HPWJ equipment to a high technical standard, including controlled descaling works.
- Hold minimum Confined Space CS1 certification (CS2 desirable and progression expected).
- Operate both push rod and crawler CCTV units across internal and external systems.
- Carry out full drainage investigations from start to termination point, ensuring complete system understanding.
- Produce detailed written reports with structured, commercially viable remedial recommendations.
- Carry out complex investigations including smell issues, flooding sites, failed attenuation systems, retention tanks and SUDS installations.
- Lead and manage external descaling works using HPWJ van packs or alongside tanker teams, taking responsibility for sequencing and site control.
- Trace and map internal drainage systems, producing structured plans to support remedial design.
- Carry out internal descaling works on both complex and non-complex sites using mechanical milling equipment and appropriate catchment methods.
- Undertake plumbing works including small bore waste pipe replacements, stack replacements, float replacements and cast/PVC alterations.
- Oversee and manage multiple operatives on larger remedial projects.
- Demonstrate working knowledge of patch lining methods and sequencing.
- Work alongside tanker teams on in-depth works involving petrol interceptors, pumping stations and larger drainage infrastructure.
The ideal candidate:
- 5 Years Drainage Experience
- Plumbing experience
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Willingness to support with drainage related plumbing works
- Experience working on commercials properties
- Good communication skills
The Company
Metcor Environmental was founded in the mid-1980s. Formally known as Metro Mechanical Services, we quickly grew focusing first on fast food customers, and then working with facilities managers and large commercial property owners in London and the Southeast. Over time, the company expanded and launched its principal hub for the North, based in Leigh, Greater Manchester.
Metcor Environmental Ltd Today
Today, under its group ownership model, Metcor Group encompasses Metcor Environmental, Metcor Pumps, and Metcor Electrical, each offering a comprehensive suite of solutions. We offer robust maintenance programmes for drainage, plumbing and pumps as well as providing national reactive emergency coverage for a range of issues. As part of our service, we offer technical diagnostic services, including drainage mapping, water testing, CCTV surveying, flows and loads analysis and site inspections. Across all these services, we focus on continuous improvement, marrying our decades of operational experience with new ways of harnessing data and driving our performance to the next level. Metcor Environmental Ltd now service across the UK 24/7 through our circa 200 directly employed engineers and counting.