Assistant Traffic Engineer

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a global professional services leader focused on solving major challenges in water, energy, and urbanisation. As an Assistant Engineer in the Traffic Engineering team, you will work on diverse projects, enhancing your skills in a supportive environment. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and professional development, this role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful projects while growing your career. If you're passionate about engineering and eager to make a difference, this is the perfect platform for you.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in traffic engineering and design.
• Good knowledge of traffic technical standards and legislation.

Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality designs covering feasibility and concept stages.
• Develop local area traffic models and prepare technical reports.

Skills

Traffic Engineering Design

Modelling

Communication Skills

Project Management

Technical Report Writing

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Professional Accreditation (CEng)

Tools

AutoCAD

LINSIG

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Join a global professional services leader. We are committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation.

We are looking for a passionate and dynamic Assistant Engineer to join our Traffic Engineering team in London. With an established track record of delivering a wide variety of projects on local, national and international scale, we work with public and private sector clients throughout the project life cycle, providing services from feasibility design through to detailed design and construction. We also support other GHD business lines where their projects have a transport interface.

We seek enthusiastic, goal oriented and motivated individuals who have 2+ years of experience and are confident in working effectively in a high-energy, fast-moving environment.Successful candidates will have a good technical background in traffic engineer design and modelling, together with excellent written and oral communication skills which we would continue to develop.We are seeking a candidate with awillingness to learn and improve the technical and softer skills required form a good consultant.

We offer a dynamic challenging job in a pleasant working environment and a competitive remuneration package. This exciting opportunity provides the right candidate with a platform from which they can take on responsibility, help develop the business and grow with the team. You will be supported by our senior employees and management team to help strengthen your skills, experience and continuing professional development.

Requirements for the Role:

• Bachelor’s degree: Engineering is preferred, but other relevant subjects will be considered.
• Have achieved or working towards a relevant professional accreditation . CEng.
• Producing high quality designs and drawings covering optioneering, feasibility and concept design stages. Detailed design experience is a plus.
• Excellent practical and technical knowledge in junction improvements, bus priority, cycle design and safety schemes.
• Good knowledge of national and local highways and traffic technical standards, legislation, regulations and procedures including Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB), Local Traffic Notes (LTNs), Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions (TSRGD).
• Keeping up to date with the latest relevant design methods and standards.
• Developing local area traffic models using packages such as LINSIG and Junctions 10.
• Preparing and/or interpreting technical reports under little supervision.
• Interpreting outputs from local area traffic models to influence scheme design.
• Ensuring tasks are carried out within agreed timescales and budgets.
• Basic understanding of CDM 2015, its relevant duties and typical documentation.
• Basic Understanding of the Road Safety Audit process.
• Supervised practitioner in Autodesk Computer Aided Design (AutoCAD) and associated packages including KeyLines, KeySigns and Vehicle Tracking.
• Excellent IT skills and use of Microsoft Office software packages.
• Understanding of Transport for London’s Model Audit Process (MAP).
• Providing professional advice to internal and external clients as required.
• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.

Our commitment to you

Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

Who we are

We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation. GHD is a global professional services company that is a leader in engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals, yet we are proudly ‘One GHD’ across more than 200 offices, spanning five continents – Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are passionate about building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.

At GHD we encourage individual achievement and recognise the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD aims to provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to gender reassignment, age, disability, religion, or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, or race.