Senior Highways Engineer

We have an opening for a Senior Highways Engineer to join our clients expanding Northampton office. This is an exciting opportunity to join an award-winning multi-disciplinary construction design consultancy, offering a broad range of interlinked services enabling them as a team to assist our clients to achieve their goals. If you are looking for a dynamic, modern, multi-discipline construction consultancy to meet the needs your career in progressing further this could be for you.

They pride themselves on offering a comprehensive consultancy service, which covers the residential, commercial, leisure, retail, health, educational, and transportation sectors of the market. They work on projects ranging from small domestic alterations, through refurbishment and alteration of listed buildings to contracts over 30 million.

What’s on offer

Hybrid working

Bonus scheme

Professional membership paid Inhouse Chartership support

Internal /External training opportunities

The role Support the design of civil engineering schemes from initial concept to detailed design, including design of roads, drainage, earthworks, and other infrastructure elements. Undertake detailed design, prepare calculations and reports, and conduct assessments in accordance with relevant codes and standards. Assist in managing the technical aspects of a project, including liaising with clients, contractors and other stakeholders, and ensuring designs are delivered on time and within budget.

Produce clear, well-presented designs, drawings, reports, specifications and other engineering documentation and proactively ensure they meet internal quality standards and industry regulations/standards.

Assist with client meetings and presentations, providing technical insight and engineering that client expectations are met throughout a project lifecycle.

Work closely with other engineers, technicians and project leads to coordinate design activities, resolve technical design issues and ensure timely project delivery.

Conduct site visits as required to monitor progress and carry our surveys to obtain site information for design.

Ensure that all designs comply health and safety regulations and best practice and contribute to design risk assessments.

Participate in professional development and training opportunities to enhance technical skills, industry knowledge and understanding of role.

What you need to succeed

Understanding of civil engineering principles, design codes and standards, including those related to highways, drainage, flood risk and utilities

Knowledge of the Construction, Design and Management (CDM) Regulations Experience in the use of AutoCAD (including Vehicle Tracking),Civil 3D, Micro Drainage & PDS.Full clean driving licence.