Engineer; Roads

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• WSP are seeking an enthusiastic and talented Engineer to join the Roads team based in Wales, in either our Cardiff or Wrexham offices.
• Your role will be at the heart of our high performing team, using your technical skills and expertise to help us continue delivering exemplary services to our clients for a diverse range of sectors, clients and projects through all stages of the project life cycle.
• You could find yourself immersed in a variety of projects including strategic network improvements, major and minor highway maintenance and asset renewals, active travel and public transport infrastructure, road safety interventions, as well as public realm initiatives.
• Our well-established regional client base includes Welsh Government, Transport for Wales, North & Mid Wales Trunk Road Agent, South Wales Trunk Road Agent, and Welsh local authorities. If a broader client and project experience interests you, you could find yourself supporting national projects such as National Highway’s Scheme Delivery Framework, or our wider Transport & Infrastructure business unit in sectors such a Rail, Water, Energy & Defence.
  
  The opportunities within WSP are endless.

• Develop engineering solutions for projects, or work packages of varying scale, complexity, value and project stages, and could be working across several projects at any given time.
• Be actively engaged, or responsible depending on experience, for ensuring your projects are delivered to budget, programme, technical standards and legal requirements.
• Work collaboratively with clients, key stakeholders and internal disciplines.
• Support Project and Technical Delivery Leads in planning, programming, and pricing of proposals and deliverables.
• Be supported by a team of experienced and developing technical staff of various grades, to whom you will be expected to provide guidance and support as appropriate.

• A passion for design and developing innovative solutions, demonstrating initiative and ingenuity to solve engineering problems.
• A Bachelor’s, or Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, or suitable equivalent.
• Working towards IEng or CEng with demonstrable progress.
• Knowledge and experience of highway design at various stages of the project life cycle. Specific experience in any, or all, of the following areas is advantageous: highway geometry, active travel, public transport, highway drainage, road restraint systems, pavements, traffic signs and road markings, and utilities.
• Knowledge of relevant design standards and codes of best practice such as the Design Manual for Roads & Bridges, Manual for Streets, TSRGD, Active Travel Act (Wales) Guidance, and Local Authority design guidance.
• Are well versed in the preparation of reports and drawings for transport studies, and or, construction projects.
• The ability to use or direct the use of relevant software for example Autodesk Civils 3D, Bentley Open Roads Designer, Info Drainage, Causeway and/or PDS are advantageous.
• Experience of complying with Designers Duties under CDM regulations.

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