Associate / Associate Director

Overview

As an Associate/Associate Director in our Birmingham highways and infrastructure team, you will provide technical leadership across public sector highway projects while guiding client management, team development, and growth of the Birmingham operation. You will shape project delivery, governance, and strategic planning, contributing to framework expansion and major transportation schemes. This senior role offers visibility across local authorities, with a focus on delivering high‑impact infrastructure and building strong partnerships. Join a growing engineering consultancy and help steer public sector highways initiatives with a cross‑functional team.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary highways and infrastructure projects from planning through delivery
• Manage key client relationships across local authorities and public sector organisations
• Support business development, framework growth and work-winning activities
• Provide technical governance, quality assurance and project oversight
• Lead, mentor and develop engineering teams
• Contribute to strategic planning and continued growth of the Birmingham operation
• Support delivery of public sector highways schemes, local authority infrastructure programmes and major transportation projects

Key requirements

• Significant consultancy experience within highways and infrastructure engineering
• Proven experience managing public sector clients, frameworks and commissions
• Strong understanding of highways design, infrastructure planning and project delivery
• Established client relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills
• Chartered Engineer status through the ICE or an equivalent professional institution
• Experience providing team leadership, technical direction and commercial oversight
• Strong knowledge of major transportation and urban infrastructure developments
• Excellent communication, project management and business development abilities

• Stakeholder engagement
• Leadership
• Communication
• Highways design
• Infrastructure planning
• Project delivery

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