Highway Designer

Overview

In this role you will design highways and public spaces while collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver major development schemes. You’ll contribute to urban streets projects for public and private sector clients, balancing technical design with societal and political contexts. You will grow project management skills, liaise with clients and stakeholders, and help shape healthier, more efficient movement within urban environments. The opportunity offers career development through close support from senior colleagues and potential professional qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Undertake highway and public space design leveraging highways and traffic engineering knowledge
• Produce and deliver drawings and reports using AutoCAD, Civils 3D and standard office software for diverse audiences
• Develop project management capabilities across increasing scale and complexity
• Collaborate within multi-disciplinary internal teams and external subconsultants
• Provide integrated, high-quality deliverables by incorporating traffic modelling outputs and design drawings for client-facing projects
• Liaise effectively with clients and external stakeholders
• Manage multiple projects with competing deadlines
• Support professional qualifications through institutions like ICE or CIHT
• Apply analytical tools and transport data understanding to project work
• Communicate clearly to non-technical audiences including public and politicians
• Utilise Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) on project work
• Senior level: manage project budgets and prepare competitive transport planning proposals
• Assist in development of proposals and fee bids for transport studies

Key requirements

• Highways and traffic engineering knowledge
• Experience or exposure to public space design
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams
• Strong communication skills for diverse audiences
• Proficiency with AutoCAD and Civils 3D
• Office software proficiency (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Capability to manage multiple projects and deadlines
• Professional engineering qualifications or actively pursuing them
• Client liaison and stakeholder engagement experience
• Analytical skills and use of transport data
• Budget and proposal development experience (for senior role)
• Understanding of public sector and private development contexts

• excellent written and verbal communication
• stakeholder engagement
• collaboration in multi-disciplinary teams
• AutoCAD
• Civils 3D
• highways and traffic engineering

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