Senior Project Engineer Highways

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Location Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ

Basis Flexi Hours

Job profile for Senior Project Engineer Highways

Salary £48,226 - £51,356

Contractual hours 37

Basis Flexi Hours

Package We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.

Job category/type Transportation and Highways

Date posted 05/07/2026

Job reference REQ
0001210

We are looking for engineers to support the delivery of our ambitious transport capital programme. Our work includes:

• Providing new active travel routes, including our A259 walking and cycling scheme.
• Delivery of bus priority measures, adding to our nationally recognised network.
• Enhancing the city’s public realm through schemes such as the transformative Valley Gardens project.
• Delivering improvements to our city’s streets to make them safer and more accessible, as well as make them more resilient to the impacts of climate change, for example by introducing tree planting and Sustainable Urban Drainage schemes.

We are recruiting a Senior Project Engineer and an Assistant Project Engineer which will play key roles in the delivery of this exciting programme. This will include designing our upcoming schemes, appointing contractors and supervising the implementation of works.

For the Senior Project Engineer role, you will have experience of delivering highway schemes, including designing schemes in AutoCAD and extensive knowledge of highways and transport regulations. You will also have previous experience of managing contractors.

Contract type:
This role is permanent

Interviews to be held: w/c 7th September 2026

There is full information about the role in the attached documents. If you would like an informal discussion, please contact Colin Harwood, Acting Transport Capital Programme Manager, colin.

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Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.

Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.