Drainage Engineer

  • Taunton
  • Permanent
  • Wed Nov 19 15:05:53 2025
  • JAL45183TA/1

Position: Drainage Engineer

Location: Bristol / Taunton

Salary: £35,000 - £40,000

Drainage Engineer opportunity available with our client, a residential and commercial drainage contractor that specialises in both reactive drainage unblocks/repairs and planned drainage surveying and maintenance.

Drainage Engineer Job Overview

  • Taking on reactive jobs from the operations centre and travelling to sites across the Bristol & Taunton areas
  • Assessing customer’s drainage issues on site and then completing necessary works to unblock drainage systems, using jetting equipment and drain surveying equipment
  • Recommending additional drainage maintenance work where necessary (Commission paid for successful jobs brought on)

Drainage Engineer Job Requirements

  • Strong reactive drainage background and confident in completing internal and external drainage unblocks using jetting equipment
  • Ideally confident in completing drainage CCTV camera surveys
  • Based within the Bristol or Taunton areas
  • Currently hold a full UK driving licence with a maximum of 6 penalty points
  • Confident and knowledgeable enough in drainage to recommend and upsell additional maintenance services

Drainage Engineer Salary & Benefits

  • Basic salary £35k - £40k, negotiable depending on experience
  • Company van provided
  • Door to door travel paid
  • Significant commission paid – 10% paid on works brought on
  • 29 days holiday (including bank holidays), rising by 1 day per year of tenure
  • Working hours: 7am – 5pm (50 hours guaranteed per week)
  • Saturday work involved, paid at an extra rate

Bennett and Game Recruitment are a multi-disciplined technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the UK with specialist teams covering a range of industries.

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