Senior Road Engineer

Job Description

Senior Engineer – Roads

Location: London & South East region (Cambridge, London (Westferry Circus), Basingstoke, Guildford or Southampton offices).

Role Overview

Your role will be at the heart of our high performing team, using your technical skills and expertise to help us continue driving forward in terms of both technical quality and service efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the development of highway designs for a diverse range of sectors, clients and projects through all stages of the project life cycle.
• Being responsible, or actively engaged depending on experience, for ensuring projects are delivered to budget, programme, technical standards and legal requirements.
• Providing guidance and support to a team of experienced and developing technical staff, and mentoring junior staff toward professional qualifications.
• Providing support to Project Managers within the design team in planning, programming, technical input to pricing of project briefs, proposals, deliverables and cost estimation.
• Being responsible for checking, certifying and authorising issue designs, documents, approvals and reports.
• Being active on several varied multi-disciplinary project/client accounts at a time.
• Coordinating engineering and technician resources to deliver work packages for our clients.
• Collaborating with clients, key stakeholders and internal teams to deliver schemes/projects.
• On an ad‑hoc basis supporting projects with site supervision, monitoring contractor compliance with the contract and ensuring works are inline with the works information.

Qualifications

• A passion for design and developing innovative solutions, demonstrating initiative and ingenuity to solve engineering problems.
• A degree in Civil Engineering or another relevant discipline.
• Working towards IEng or CEng status with a professional institute.
• Relevant knowledge and experience of highway design at various stages of the project life cycle; specific experience in road geometry, roundabouts, at‑grade and grade‑separated junctions, inclusive active travel, highway drainage systems, road restraint systems, traffic sign and road marking design.
• Knowledge of relevant design codes such as the Design Manual for Roads & Bridges, Manual for Streets, TSRGD, Local Authority design guidance, and experience preparing drawings for contract documentation and technical approvals including application of departures from standard.
• The ability to use or direct and check the use of relevant software including, but not limited to, Autodesk Civils 3D, Bentley OpenRoads Designer, InfoDrainage and/or PDS.
• Proactively managing change on tasks/projects, clearly communicating potential impacts on programme, cost and quality.
• Experience of complying with Designers Duties under CDM regulations.

Benefits

• Hybrid working policy – flexibility to work from home two days a week.
• Work‑life balance initiatives, including ‘WSP My Hour’ and part‑time/flexible working arrangements.
• Health and wellbeing support through the Thrive programme, virtual GP service, reasonable workplace adjustments, Gymflex scheme and comprehensive menopause support package.
• Professional development, training, mentoring and Chartership opportunities.

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/paternity. 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.