Senior Highways Design Engineer in Whitton

About The Role

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Highways, we’re supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK. We don’t just build roads and bridges - we’re building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work. You’ll be joining our Engineering Solutions team, as the UK’s number one highway maintenance contractor, our teams use the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.

What will you be doing?

Do you enjoy leading on projects? You'll be the project lead for the design of highways maintenance and improvement schemes with responsibility for delivery to time, cost and quality requirements. You'll undertake technical design checks, site visits for surveys and inspections to support the design process.

Are you organised? You'll focus on resource planning and co-ordination of multi-disciplinary teams, including sub-consultants. We'll support you to carry out people management including training and development, staff performance reviews, mentoring and performance management.

What you’ll bring

• Are you an Incorporated / Chartered Engineer? You'll need to have this status or be a highly experienced Engineer working towards IEng/CEng.
• You’ll have experience leading multi-disciplinary projects to achieve customers’ programme, cost and quality expectations within the highways sector.
• You’ll need experience in the application and review of alignment, drainage and sign design software and AutoCad package.
• You’ll be commercially aware in project delivery.
• Do you have experience of National Highways & Local Authority design standards & contracts? You'll need this and knowledge of NEC suite of contracts.
• Experience of design resource planning and programme management.
• You’ll need experience of managing H&S in design and construction.
• You’ll need a full and clean UK/EEC driving licence.

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Personal Accident Cover

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs. Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet. We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations. We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life.

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.