Principal Highway Design Engineer

Principal Highway Design Engineer page is loaded## Principal Highway Design Engineer locations:
GB.Glasgow.
2 Atlantic Square York Street:
GB.Edinburgh - Stamp Office time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
R-152845###
** Job Description**## Overview
** Build a reputation for high-quality delivery.
** You might know us for the great work we do across our wide variety of projects. We're proud to say it's thanks to our people's diversity of thought, expertise and knowledge. And when you join us, you'll be a part of this genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone's voice is valued and treated equally.

We're passionate about what we do, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. Simply put, this a great place to be. So, when it comes to your life outside of work, ask us about our flexible and remote working policies designed to help you get the most out of life.

As a Principal Highways Engineer in our Highways and Active Travel team, you'll be pivotal in implementing ideas that shape the future of how we move. We work on a large variety of significant and challenging projects, both locally and across the UK, such as A9 Dualling, A83 Rest and Be Thankful, George Street and St. Andrew Square Regeneration, East Airdrie Link Road, Borders Greenway, Lower Thames Crossing and Eastwood Active Travel Network, alongside as a large portfolio of other local transport projects with Local Authorities and Contractors.

You'll feel a great sense of pride in shaping high-quality designs across new build, renewal, maintenance, and assessment works. Collaborate with national and international design teams, using your insight and leadership to generate positive, sustainable impacts on society and the environment.. Whilst we offer flexible working policies, this role would require you to be based from either our Glasgow or Edinburgh office a minimum of 3 days per week.##

Your role
* Providing technical guidance on highways and/or active travel engineering projects.
* Mentoring and coaching team members and taking responsibility for the technical development of staff.
* Solving engineering problems.
* Developing works cost estimates.
* Checking, reviewing and overseeing the work of others.
* Liaise with key clients and be capable of discussing design / technical solutions to stakeholders including technical and non-technical Clients.
* Liaising with Practice Managers, ensuring that projects are sufficiently resourced.
* Delegating work to team members, programming deliverables and monitoring progress.
* Identify and responding to project commercial risks and opportunities.
* Support the business in winning work including representing the business at networking events, preparing bids and tenders and establish, maintain and develop relationships with existing and prospective internal and external clients.## About you
* BEng or MEng in Civil Engineering or Professionally Qualified, or near qualified at Chartered or Incorporated Engineer Level.
* Experience/knowledge of the design and design process involved in highways and active travel schemes.
* Proven ability to advise clients on technical matters.
* Proven ability to coach and develop team members.
* A willingness to work flexibly to deliver projects to time and budget.
* Project Management and or Highways Discipline Management experience.
* Experience of pricing and bidding on tender opportunities.
* Self-motivated and able to work both single-handedly as well as within a larger multi-discipline team in directing and managing packages of work to completion.## Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise.

And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.## About Atkins

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