Senior Highway Engineer

About The Borough

Joining us, you get to work for not just one high performing London Borough, but two.

Kingston and Sutton councils have a number of shared services serving both authorities, with some teams and roles more focused on one council than the other, but the majority are shared across both, meaning you get multiple opportunities to learn from a wider pool of activities and two different political bodies.

We work flexibly in both Kingston and Sutton offices, and support working at home or flexible working patterns that enable you to tailor your working and personal life. We provide the equipment and tools to enable you to work flexibly, and in return ask you to use that flexibility to be creative and ambitious in the services we deliver.

There are some really exciting things happening in both boroughs. In Sutton, we are developing the London Cancer Hub, a world leading cancer research and treatment hub that will bring together professionals from across different sectors to identify and test new treatments and therapies. Over in Kingston, we are undertaking the largest housing regeneration programme ever delivered in the borough, building new energy efficient housing that will transform some of our oldest Council owned housing.

Both boroughs have publicly committed to doing what they can to tackle the climate emergency and are investing in new technologies and societal change that will help bring carbon emissions down and improve our climate impact.

You should choose Kingston and Sutton if you are looking for an opportunity that will challenge you to deliver more, support you to achieve personal ambitions, and expect you to put borough residents at the heart of what you do.

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

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

• 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 and 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. If you’re motivated by variety, technical challenge and the chance to see your work directly improve places and people’s everyday journeys, this role offers both professional stretch and genuine impact.

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 Crossovers and Surveys.

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.…