We have an opening for a highly skilled and passionate Engineer to join our clients Highways / Transport Bristol team. The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in the technical delivery of leading highways projects and the enhancement of highway engineering capabilities.
The successful candidate will be a Chartered Engineer with a relevant engineering institution and possess extensive experience in highways technical design delivery.
In addition to strong technical skills, including a thorough understanding of the UK’s DMRB and MCHW, you must have excellent communication and interpersonal abilities. This will be client-facing with strong team leadership skills, and you must be committed to developing the technical skills of junior staff within the group.
What’s on offer
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee assistance programme
- Eye care vouchers
- Flexible annual leave allowance
- Flexible working hours / Hybrid working
- Fundraising & volunteering opportunities
- Enhanced company pension contributions
- Group income protection
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- Social fund
The role
- The role requires you to act as a highways discipline technical lead taking responsibility for the punctual delivery of projects to high quality standards in addition to achieving financial targets; you should therefore possess effective managerial experience and suitable technical expertise.
- Technical design and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
- Undertaking the role of Highways Discipline Manager or Highways Discipline Director
- The day-to-day management, direction and training of the staff whilst undertaking your project work
- Acting as a role model for others in the Company
- Developing the relationship between the company and new and existing clients and identify potential work
- Contributing to / or preparing fee budgets, proposals and resource requirements for projects under your control
- Co-ordinating with other engineers both in the regional offices and between technical groups
- Managing the preparation of calculations, drawings and other documents and ensuring these are controlled during the execution of projects under your control
- Managing and liaising with clients on proposals and project work
- Specifying and/or managing site examination and investigation works in a safe and effective manner
- Identifying and managing risks for the work under your control to agreed acceptable levels.
What you need to succeed
- In-depth knowledge of DMRB/MCHW and detailed design experience on road schemes above £5M construction value.
- Detailed technical skills across the key elements of highways design.
- Liaison with direct stakeholders.
- Essential Software; Microsoft Office Suite, AutoCAD.
- Experience in the following softwares MicroStation, Microsoft Project, Civils 3D, MX, Infraworks, Windes/Microdrainage, PDS Sign/Line, Arcady, Lighting Reality
- Alignment design, Drainage design, Pavement design, Road restraint design, Signs & Markings design and Lighting design.
- Experience of Design and Build schemes, including supporting schemes through Construction
- Understanding of related highway disciplines preferred, including inter-alia, structures, earthworks, ITS, landscaping, road safety, traffic analysis.
- Knowledge of the BIM protocols in BS1192.