Senior Road Engineer

Overview

In this Senior Engineer role, you will lead highway design initiatives within a high-performing Roads team in Birmingham, guiding project delivery from concept through to completion. You’ll work closely with clients and cross-functional teams to ensure quality, technical standards, and efficiency align with project goals. You’ll mentor junior staff and contribute to knowledge sharing while supporting bid work and site supervision when needed. This is an opportunity to shape infrastructure projects at scale within a globally integrated engineering firm.

Pay / Benefits

• Work-life balance
• Hybrid working policy
• Inclusive culture
• Thrive wellbeing programme
• Virtual GP service
• Gymflex scheme

Responsibilities

• Develop highway designs across diverse sectors and projects through all life-cycle stages
• Ensure delivery on budget, schedule, technical standards, and legal requirements
• Provide guidance to junior staff and support professional development
• Contribute to the team’s knowledge base and mentoring
• Support Project Managers with planning, pricing, and cost estimation inputs
• Check, certify and issue designs, documents, and reports
• Coordinate resources to deliver work packages and collaborate with stakeholders
• Provide ad hoc site supervision and monitor contractor compliance where required

Key requirements

• Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent in highway design
• Working towards IEng or CEng status; professional qualifications are advantageous
• Experience in highway design and/or drainage systems across project life cycle
• Knowledge of road geometry, junctions, inclusive active travel, drainage, road restraint systems, signage and road marking design
• Familiarity with design codes (Design Manual for Roads & Bridges, Manual for Streets, TSRGD) and contract documentation
• Ability to use or direct use of Autodesk Civils 3D, Bentley OpenRoads Designer, InfoDrainage and/or PDS
• Experience with Designers Duties under CDM regulations
• Proven capability to manage change and communicate impacts to programme, cost and quality
• Design thinking and initiative
• Mentoring and staff development
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Autodesk Civils 3D
• Bentley OpenRoads Designer
• InfoDrainage

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