Principal Highway Technician

Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week

Salary: Dependent on experience

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Principal Highway Technician to join Mayer Brown Limited in our Woking Head Office.

Mayer Brown is a leading independent consultancy specialising in Transport Planning, Highway Infrastructure Design and Environmental Assessment across the UK. We work on a wide range of development‑related infrastructure projects, supporting schemes from early feasibility and planning through to detailed design, technical approval and construction.

This role would suit an experienced highway technician with strong technical drawing, CAD and Civil 3D skills, who is confident producing high‑quality highway design packages and supporting the delivery of development infrastructure schemes. You will play a key role within our highway infrastructure design team, working closely with engineers, transport planners, clients, architects, local authorities and other members of the project team.

The successful candidate will be technically capable, well organised and proactive, with the ability to work independently, support junior members of the team and help maintain consistently high standards in our design outputs.

As Principal Highway Technician, your responsibilities will include:

• Producing, reviewing and coordinating highway and civil engineering drawings for development infrastructure projects.
• Preparing detailed technical drawings for Section 278, Section 38 and related highway approval submissions.
• Supporting engineers with highway design development from feasibility and planning stages through to detailed design, technical approval and construction.
• Preparing and developing 3D models including surfaces, alignments, corridors, grading, earthworks and related design outputs.
• Undertaking or supporting vehicle tracking, junction layouts, access arrangements, servicing layouts, car park design and external works drawings.
• Assisting with responses to technical comments from highway authorities, clients and approving bodies.
• Working collaboratively with internal design teams and external consultants to ensure coordinated and practical design solutions.
• Managing assigned drawing packages and technical tasks to agreed programmes and quality standards.
• Supporting the preparation of drawing issue sheets, document control information and submissions through Common Data Environments where required.
• Helping to maintain and improve CAD standards, drawing templates, workflows and quality procedures.
• Providing guidance, checking support and mentoring to junior technicians and graduates.
• Contributing to internal technical discussions, lessons learnt and continual improvement across the design team.

We are looking for someone with strong experience in highway design and technical drawing production, ideally gained within a UK consultancy, local authority or development infrastructure environment.

You should be comfortable taking responsibility for drawing packages, working with engineers to develop design solutions and helping to ensure outputs are technically accurate, coordinated and delivered on time.

You will ideally have:

• Significant experience in a Highway Technician, Senior Highway Technician, Civil Engineering Technician or similar role.
• Strong proficiency in AutoCAD.
• Good working knowledge of Civil 3D, including surfaces, alignments, corridors, long sections, cross sections, grading and earthworks.
• Experience preparing highway design drawings for residential, commercial, mixed‑use or major development schemes.
• Experience producing Section 278 and Section 38 drawing packages.
• Knowledge of UK highway design standards and guidance, including Manual for Streets, DMRB, local authority standards and relevant technical approval processes.
• Experience with junction design, access layouts, swept path analysis and vehicle tracking.
• A good understanding of drawing production across feasibility, planning, technical approval and construction stages.
• Experience working with BIM principles, Common Data Environments and document control procedures would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of drainage, external…