Technical Highways Director

Company:
Marston Holdings

Salary: £80,000 to £85,000 a year

Hours:

Full-time

Location:

W1D 5DU

Job type:
Permanent

Posting date: 19 Oct 2026

Closing date: 16 Nov 2026

Project Centre is an award winning consultancy specialising in transport design, highways and structural engineering, traffic engineering and landscape architecture. Our talented multidisciplinary teams are passionate about shaping thriving places, delivering innovative solutions and creating lasting value for communities across the UK.

Our integrated approach to design delivers award-winning solutions recognised internationally. Led by a forward-thinking leadership team, we bring together planners, engineers, designers and specialists to create places that are technically excellent and deliver lasting benefits for communities.

Are you a senior,commercially minded

Highways leader ready to take full ownership of performance, growth, and service excellence?

Due to an internal promotiontherare opportunity has arisento step into a high impact leadership role at Project Centre, where you’ll shape strategy, win major work, and lead multidisciplinary technical teams delivering industry leading highway design and consultancy services across a broad geographic region, implementing changeand driving the continued growth of the business.

• Leading multiple technical teams and senior managers to deliver high quality highways, assetmanagementand construction design services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, including internal and external clients, operational staff, project teams, or external stakeholders.
• Winning new business and growing key accounts to drive regional and national success.
• Oversee technical input into bid proposals, defining the delivery strategy and working with cross functional teams to prepare high quality, compliant, competitive submissions.
• Setting the strategic direction for the Highways discipline,alongside senior leadership.
• Ensuring outstanding financial performance, including revenue growth, margins, WIP control, and account management targets.
• Driving technical excellence, best practice, and governance across complex, business critical projects,maintaining excellent relationships with the Institution of Civil Engineers, Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation,Department for Transport,National Highway sand relevant institutions.

• A degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent.
• Extensive experience insenior technicalhighwayroles, including significant leadership of complex,high risk, crossdisciplinaryprojectsand programmes.
• Overseeing the technical preparation, review and checking of deliverables.
• Experience working in/with local authorities.
• Experience working with private developers andalongsidedevelopers on behalf of authorities.
• Experience of construction sites and delivering works on site
• Expert knowledge of current design codes and standards as well as industry best practices, including CDM Regulations.
• A proven track recordof:
• Leading and inspiring large, multidisciplinary teams
• Delivering complex, high value programmes both on and off site
• Operating atseniorleadership level
• Winning work and growing client accounts
• Managing significant budgets and financial performance
• Innovation and strategic thinking
• The confidence to influence, negotiate, and build lasting partnerships and teams.
• Consultancy background desirable but not mandatory.

• Holiday purchase scheme – buy up to 5additionaldays each year
• Life Assurance
• A wide range of flexible staff benefits, from high-street discounts to wellbeing and lifestyle perks
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Package (subject to eligibility)

New starters will be subject to clearance through the…