Lead Senior Engineer(Bridges)

Overview

As Lead Senior Engineer in our Consulting Highways team, you will steer highway design solutions and mentor junior designers on a range of major projects. You’ll work in a hybrid setup across Scotland, collaborating with Transport Scotland and clients to deliver compliant, value-driven scheme deliverables. Your role combines technical leadership with stakeholder engagement and bid support, shaping outcomes for critical infrastructure. This is a chance to impact large-scale projects and drive safety-focused engineering across the portfolio.

Pay / Benefits

• Exceptional personal development and progression plans
• Competitive salary and compensation
• Generous pension scheme
• 24 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Family friendly policies
• Affinity Networks and social impact days

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver technically sound engineering solutions meeting standards and client requirements
• Prepare and check designs, calculations, drawings, and documentation for scheme deliverables
• Oversee junior staff and supervise their tasks
• Manage project budgets and ensure commercial success of the portfolio
• Liaise with client and supplier representatives, attend progress meetings, and respond to queries
• Contribute to bids and the work winning function
• Promote and enforce health and safety practices within the team

Key requirements

• Senior Engineer experience or equivalent in the relevant technical field
• Ability to produce technically sound solutions and supervise others
• Chartered status with ICE or IStructE (desirable/essential on certain contracts)
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant subject
• Experience with health, safety and welfare management per regulations (CDM, IMS)
• Capable of acting as CRE or day-to-day main engineering contact when required
• Strong design and specification process knowledge and ability to advise others
• Proficiency with relevant software and analytical tools
• Understanding of risk assessment and CDM/risk mitigation
• People manager experience for a medium-sized team

• leadership
• communication
• collaboration
• design and specification processes
• engineering calculations and drawings
• enforcing technical standards

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