Senior Highway Engineer

Responsibilities

• Enthusiastic to manage team members to deliver a range of schemes.
• Check drawings & designs and adhere to standards and our processes.
• Advise clients on technical design queries and lead in project meetings.
• Produce documents and reports in relation to design stages, analyse traffic data and propose interventions.
• Strong technical highway design processes, such as Utilities C2, C3, CDM Regulations and road safety audits.

• Previous experience of working at a local authority and consultancy is beneficial.
• Local knowledge of Kingston and Sutton highway network.
• Site experience / snagging / site support experience is beneficial.

Shape the future of our streets and communities. This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Engineer to take an instrumental role within a progressive local authority delivering meaningful highway schemes from concept to completion. You’ll be at the heart of the full project lifecycle – from early scoping and optioneering through detailed design, procurement and hands‑on construction site management – with real influence over outcomes on the ground.

Working in a supportive environment, you’ll be part of a growing in‑house design team and a wider, highly collaborative highways service that brings together client, commissioning, reactive, permitting and inspection teams. Here, you’ll find a welcoming workplace built on respect, collaboration and community.

The design team includes a range of grades from team lead, principal engineer, senior, engineer, graduate, technician and apprentices. The wider design & delivery team is approximately 30 staff and includes street lighting, TMOs, planned maintenance, vehicle cross‑overs and surveys.

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential in a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment. We constantly strive to improve our ways of working, so your ideas – big or small – are fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic management team.

• 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 dependants 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.
• Electric vehicle leasing scheme.
• Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support.

We are a diverse and welcoming borough committed to reflecting the community we serve. We celebrate and respect differences, welcome applications from under‑represented groups, support family‑friendly inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement forums and inclusive staff networks. We are a disability‑confident employer guaranteeing interview for all disabled applicants meeting the minimum essential criteria for a role. As a London Living Wage Employer, all employees are guaranteed the London Living Wage regardless of contract type.