Package Manager / Engineer - Highway & Traffic Management in Aylesbury

Laing O'Rourke are currently recruiting for a Highways Manager / Senior Highways Engineer who will take full responsibility for the planning, coordination, approval and delivery of all highways-related works associated with the HMP Grendon project.

Location: Buckinghamshire

This role includes management of the Construction Traffic Management Plan (CTMP), temporary traffic management (TM), highway consents and closures, and the package management of highways works delivered either by Expanded or other specialist subcontractors. The highways Manager will take a lead role in managing the project Highways consultant and will operate in a sensitive environment adjacent to a live prison estate and public highway network, requiring close liaison with Buckinghamshire Council, HS2, statutory stakeholders, and the wider project logistics team.

• Construction Traffic Management & Approvals: Lead the preparation, submission, agreement, and ongoing management of the CTMP for the HMP Grendon project, including enabling works and subsequent main contract phases. Act as the primary point of contact for Buckinghamshire Council (Highways Authority) and project client team (MACE/Cushman’s) on all CTMP-related matters, comments, revisions and compliance issues. Ensure CTMP requirements are embedded into contractor methodologies, logistics plans and daily site operations. Monitor CTMP compliance on site and manage any non-conformances or authority concerns.
• Temporary Traffic Management (TM): Coordinate, manage and oversee all temporary traffic management arrangements, including diversions, lane closures, traffic control, signage and temporary speed restrictions. Interface with Select (and/or Expanded) to ensure TM proposals are compliant, approved, correctly installed and safely maintained. Review and approve TM designs, risk assessments and method statements prior to implementation. Ensure TM arrangements remain suitable as site conditions, access strategies and programme requirements evolve.
• Road Closures & Highway Consents: Lead discussions and formal agreements with Buckinghamshire Council for all required road closures, partial closures and traffic restrictions, including application strategy, timings and conditions. Manage Section 50, Section 184/278, TTROs and any other highway consents as required. Coordinate approvals to align with programme constraints, prison operations, HS2 activities and third-party stakeholders. Apply and manage all “Abnormal loads”.
• Highways Package Management: Package manage all highways works, whether delivered by Expanded or alternative specialist subcontractors. Define scopes of work, review programmes, monitor progress and manage interfaces with adjacent enabling works, utilities diversions and permanent works. Oversee complex highways activities including junction alteration works, bellmouth construction, drainage, surfacing, kerbing, signage and road tie-ins. Ensure works are delivered safely, to specification, on programme and in accordance with highway authority requirements.
• Stakeholder & Interface Management: Act as the highways lead for engagement with HS2, including coordination of access routes, traffic impacts, sequencing and interface risks. Liaise/feed in to prison stakeholders, local residents, emergency services and statutory bodies as required. Attend and contribute to key logistics, highways and stakeholder meetings, representing the project's highways position clearly and authoritatively.

• Construction Traffic Management Plan (CTMP) experience - essential
• Highways experience
• Degree qualified or equivalent in Construction / Civil related field

About Us: Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia. Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme’. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process. We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com.