Principal Engineer

Amey are a leading provider of full life-cycle engineering, operations and decarbonisation solutions, for transport infrastructure and complex facilities.

Working for us, you’ll be delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions that enhance life and protect our shared future.

Our people are driven by a set of strong values, based on safety, insight and collaboration.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a permanent Principal Engineer to join our Consulting Highways team. With a shared office space in our Stafford office and the ability to work remotely we invite applications from across the region.

Amey Consulting provide design and other support services to Staffordshire County Council (SCC) and developers across the whole of the County through our Infrastructure+ contract with SCC. The team manage a large portfolio of work, ranging from detailed design of £1m+ projects to technical checking and site supervision on behalf of our client SCC. This role offers a unique opportunity to follow projects through from inception to construction developing your career in Highway design and construction in a fast paced, collaborative and supportive team.

This role requires strong experience of designing highways and infrastructure projects.

We strongly encourage the development towards a professional qualification with a recognised Institution and pride ourselves on mentoring our staff. To show our commitment to development of our staff we offer a comprehensive Chartership bonus.

As a Highways Principal Engineer, you ll play a crucial role in managing the delivery of projects on the Highways account. This would allow for a wide-ranging scope of mainly small and medium sized projects but with some larger projects included, with recent schemes being major bypasses, trunk road improvements and new major infrastructure sites preparation.

Management of safe project delivery and our clients’ expectations are top priorities. We re growing our project team to handle all our increasing work, so this is a perfect chance to be part of our expanding Consulting team.

Responsibilities include:

• To act as a technical team leader, providing advice, guidance and supervision as appropriate to technical teams, operational managers, client and suppliers
• Leading the preparation and checking of designs in accordance with DMRB or other national design codes, calculations, drawings and documentation as part of the production of scheme deliverables that satisfy the overarching criteria of quality, cost and programme.
• Responsibility for the commercial success of the projects within their portfolio, controlling budgets and managing the costs associated with the production of deliverables
• Liaising with client and supplier representatives at peer level and higher, including presenting proposals, attending progress meetings and responding to queries
• Significantly contributing to and leading the preparation of bids and the general work winning function, taking responsibility for the preparation of technical and commercial offers
• Drive effective health and safety practices within the team

• High level experience and expertise within the Highways design and delivery field, probably gained in a Senior Engineer role or equivalent
• Able to produce and lead the production of technically sound engineering solutions, complying with all relevant technical standards and client requirements
• Experience of managing project related tasks associated with the management of health, safety and welfare, e.g. Amey’s Integrated Management System and the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations
• Capable of acting as engineering lead for a larger project where required under the terms of the commission.
• Knowledge, understanding and experience of design and specification process with ability to manage others. Demonstrates a full understanding of the project scope and acts as Design Team Lead for both minor and major projects
• Highly experienced with relevant software and similar analytical tools. Good ability to check work produced by others and able to validate and approve the use of new tools
• Demonstrates an excellent…