Highway Engineer

About You

• Enthusiastic to deliver a range of schemes and guide junior team members.
• Produce drawings & designs that adhere to the latest highway & transportation standards and our processes.
• Strong technical design knowledge and develop to lead in meetings with technical queries.
• Produce documents and reports in relation to design stages and analyse traffic data and propose interventions.
• Awareness of Technical Highway design processes, such as Utilities C2, C3, CDM Regulations, Road Safety Audits, design stages and commissioning surveys.
• Previous experience of working at a Local Authority and / or Consultancy is beneficial.
• Local knowledge of Kingston and Sutton highway network.

To support the Senior Engineer and Principal Engineer to manage the design team and deliver a range of highway and transportation schemes.

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills.

• A generous annual leave entitlement of 25–32 days, plus bank holidays (pro‑rata if part‑time working hours apply) depending on service and grade.
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependents leave.
• Three volunteering days per year in Kingston.
• Hybrid working (dependent on the role).
• Flexible and agile working arrangements using Google Chromebooks.
• Learning and development portal offering a range of courses.
• Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres.
• Interest free season ticket loans.
• Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme.
• Zip car scheme.
• Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support.

Shape the future of our streets and communities. This is an exciting opportunity for a Highway Engineer to take an instrumental role within a progressive local authority delivering meaningful, highway schemes from concept to completion.

We are proud to be a diverse and welcoming borough and we strive to create a workforce which reflects the community we serve, and instil a sense of belonging in our staff. We celebrate and respect differences and appreciate the value of having a diverse workforce, therefore we welcome applications from under‑represented groups. We are also a disability confident employer and guarantee interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for a role.

All our employees are guaranteed the London Living Wage, regardless of contract type.

We welcome applications from all able and qualified people, seeking a democratic, inclusive workplace.

These opportunities are closed to applications.