Senior Engineer (Highways & Transportation) in Manchester

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Senior Engineer (Highways & Transportation) to join a growing team of over 130 Civil & Structural Engineers and Designers. Our department manages a diverse range of projects, from Concept Studies to Detailed Design, including road safety engineering, which offers a variety of interesting work and clients. The industries we work within include: Roads, Water, Transportation, Energy, Nuclear, Defence. This role presents a unique chance to engage in meaningful projects across multiple sectors. Working in a multi-disciplinary team, the focus is on delivering infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing civil and structural (highways) advice, analysis, calculations, reports, and specifications.
• Leading small projects and sub‑tasks from a technical perspective.
• Effectively communicating designs to BIM teams, other disciplines, construction personnel, and stakeholders.
• Feeding into highways discipline engineering technical input for projects and/or proposals; including design engineering, preparation, and some reviewing of works documentation/gap analysis.
• Managing smaller scale deliverables for clients (internal and external).
• Organising and assisting with junior staff, including allocating work and ensuring delivery against planned timescales.
• Mentoring and developing graduates and less experienced engineers.
• Production of high‑quality C&S engineering deliverables to schedule, budget and client satisfaction.
• Work to applicable national and international codes of practice, legislation and company/client standards and procedures to ensure compliance.
• Maintain and develop awareness of current relevant codes and standards.
• Implement company and, where applicable, client/project policies and procedures.
• Communicate effectively with other disciplines to ensure that interfaces are clearly defined and correctly designed.
• Communicate appropriately with other departments, project personnel, vendors and clients.
• Production and development of highway specifications.
• Optioneering assessments, defining scopes of work, supporting estimates and business development.

More specific tasks could include:

• Defining client requirements.
• Assisting with RRRAP assessments.
• Assisting with Traffic Management design and approvals.
• Design of new carriageway/footways, assessment of existing infrastructure, checking and approving C&S documentation from others.
• Supporting the PM/Project Lead in identifying change, progress reporting, tracking of issues, risks and resolutions.

Required Experience:

• Significant experience in highways & infrastructure at all stages of the project lifecycle.
• Very good knowledge of design working practices and installation requirements of the discipline across a range of industries.
• Very good knowledge of UK legislation and standards.
• Awareness of risk identification, quantification, management and of HSE requirements.
• Client‑facing liaison and interaction.
• Proven experience with multiple clients.
• Eligibility for Security Clearance – British National or 5 years UK residency.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience with new and historic highways, optioneering assessments, defining scopes of work, supporting estimates and business development.
• Experience in leading small teams and supporting more junior engineers.
• Project Management experience.
• Requirements Management experience.
• Traffic Regulation Order experience.

Qualifications – Essential:

• Degree in Civil Engineering, or similar.
• Minimum IEng Civil, or substantial experience to compensate.
• Membership of a Professional Industry Body.
• Full driving licence.

Qualifications – Desirable:

• Actively working towards Chartership with ICE, CIHT or similar.
• Further industry recognized training and qualifications.
• Project Management experience.
• CDM qualifications.
• Security Clearance, or capability.
• National Highways Passport.
• CSCS card.