Senior Road Engineer in Cardiff

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

You’ll be working alongside a host of talented people ranging from early career professionals to established engineers and project managers across our Roads business, using your technical skills to help us deliver exemplary services to our clients across a diverse range of sectors, clients and projects through all stages of the project life cycle. Projects may include strategic network improvements, highway maintenance and asset renewals, active travel and public transport infrastructure, road safety interventions, and public realm initiatives. Our client base includes Welsh Government, Transport for Wales, North & Mid Wales Trunk Road Agent, South Wales Trunk Road Agent, and Welsh local authorities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver engineering solutions for projects, or work packages of varying scale, complexity, value and project stages, potentially across several projects at any given time.
• Ensure projects are delivered within budget, programme, technical standards and legal requirements.
• Liaise with clients, stakeholders and internal disciplines to develop trusted relationships and proactively manage expectations.
• Work with Project and Technical Delivery Leads in planning, programming, and pricing of proposals and deliverables.
• Check and certify designs, documents and reports prior to approval.
• Lead and coordinate resources during the delivery of projects or work packages.
• Mentor and upskill junior staff to support professional development and progression.
• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety and Environmental Legislation and in-house quality assurance standards and processes.

What We Will Look For

• A passion for design and developing innovative solutions, with initiative and ingenuity to solve engineering problems.
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, or suitable equivalent.
• Hold IEng or are working towards CEng with demonstrable progress.
• Wide-ranging knowledge and experience of highway design at various project life cycle stages; areas such as highway geometry, active travel, public transport, highway drainage, road restraint systems, pavements, traffic signs and road markings, and utilities are advantageous.
• Knowledge of relevant design standards and codes (e.g., Design Manual for Roads & Bridges, Manual for Streets, TSRGD, Active Travel Act (Wales) Guidance, Local Authority design guidance).
• Experience leading single or multi-disciplinary projects or work packages.
• Experience preparing and checking reports and drawings for transport studies or construction projects.
• Ability to use or supervise the use of software such as Autodesk Civils 3D, Bentley OpenRoads Designer, InfoDrainage, Causeway and/or PDS.
• Knowledge of all duty holders under CDM regulations.
• Awareness and proactive management of project and commercial risk with Project and Technical Delivery Leads.
• Good communication, client/stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.

Equal Opportunity

We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria; please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.