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Reporting to a Senior Engineer, you will be working as part of a small highway design team of Engineers, Assistant Engineers and Technicians.
You will play an important role in the delivery of a wide variety of highway schemes from the design of major road schemes, through to junction improvements and design of local cycling infrastructure schemes, This role also offers a challenging and unusual opportunity to work as part of an integrated design and operational (construction) team, where designers are closely involved with the construction delivery.
As the Highways Design Engineer your duties & responsibilities will be:
- Produce design packages, reports and other deliverables to achieve project outcomes;
- Organise and undertake site visits and surveys
- Deliver successful projects to agreed time and cost expectations whilst ensuring work is undertaken in compliance with internal quality standards and processes;
- Ensure work is undertaken in compliance with Health & Safety and Environmental legislation
- Resource planning and co-ordination of multi disciplinary teams, including sub consultants;
- Staff and people management including training and development and staff performance reviews;
- Working collaboratively with customers to understand and develop project objectives and deliverables;
- Managing, building and developing customer relationships.
Skills & Knowledge Requirements
- Incorporated Engineer or highly experienced engineer working towards IEng / CEng;
- Design and construction experience in the highways sector
- A commercial awareness in the delivery of projects
- Awareness / experience of Local Highway Authority standards
- Evidence of developing assistant engineers, graduates and technicians
- Working knowledge of programming tools such as ASTA
- Evidence of managing Health & Safety & Environment in design and construction
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD and other design software including for drainage, alignment and traffic signs desirable.
- Computer literate particularly with packages such as Microsoft Excel and Word
- UK/EEC driving licence
