Senior Highway Design Engineer

Senior Highways Design Engineer
Newark
Salary up to 50k

Calibre Search is currently working alongside one of the East Midlands' most vibrant Engineering Consultancies, looking to expand their team. They have a modern office, with a firm focus on making your place of work somewhere to enjoy and thrive and due to a further increase in workload, an opportunity has arisen for a Civil Engineer with a bias towards Highways to join their team.

Their existing team of Engineers are able to work with clients on the design of both private and adoptable highway solutions and provide a comprehensive service to guide clients through the process of providing access to a site from the public highway, whether this is access to serve a single unit or new development road. They can work with the client and wider design team to provide advice from the initial feasibility right through to the construction stage. The team has experience in the design of Section 38/278 works and can help in guiding their clients through the process covering aspects of the design and approval. They advise on and assist in procurement of surveys to supplement the design and approval process, such as topographical surveys, traffic speed surveys, drainage CCTV, pavement surveys and utility surveys.

The company can undertake the design of both new highways and improvement schemes from simple junction provision to new roundabouts and estate roads for new developments. Their design services cover the carriageway alignment, pavement construction, foul and surface water drainage, adoptable highway signage, and road markings. They are able to secure and manage specialist design services to cover street lighting design, traffic signals design and road safety audits to prepare a full design pack for technical submission. They also liaise with the Highway Authority to seek technical approval for the highway work and support the client is obtaining any Section 38/278 legal agreement from the Highway Authority to enable construction delivery.

Reporting to their Associate Director, you will ideally have Chartered or Incorporated status with a relevant professional body and have experience with working on highways/access roads/PROW schemes or schemes that involve these elements. A good understanding of the technical design requirements for highways drainage, alignments and principal sectional agreements such as S278 and S38 is required and you will be part of a specialised highways division that works independently and also with a wider civil/structural engineering team.

A full drivers license is required for this role and the company offer free parking to all employees

If you want to be considered for the opportunity, or other opportunities in the area - please contact Sam Smith at Calibre Search or click apply.

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