Associate Highway Designer & Project Lead

Carrington West; West of England; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + Bank holidays (incre

5% employer pension contributions (inr

Discretionary Bonus Scheme, biannual

Professional development and training

Payment of 2 x professional subs

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Critical Illness

Job summary

Carrington West is seeking an Associate Highway Designer to lead highway design projects and provide technical leadership across teams. The role emphasizes delivering design outputs within programme, budget, and quality constraints, while guiding junior members and maintaining client relationships.

You will review design solutions against national standards (MfS, DMRB, LTN 1/20, TSRGD) and support business development through work-winning activities.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in highway design within a consultancy or similar professional environment.
• Proven experience leading highway design projects and technical workstreams.
• Experience managing project delivery, budgets, resources, and programme requirements.
• Strong understanding of highway law, planning obligations, highway agreements, and approvals processes.
• Experience undertaking and reviewing junction modelling, forecasting, and technical assessments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of highway design projects, ensuring outputs are delivered to programme, budget, and quality requirements.
• Lead and review highway design solutions in accordance with national and local guidance, including MfS, DMRB, LTN 1/20, TSRGD, and local authority standards.
• Provide technical leadership and problem-solving support on complex highway design projects.
• Undertake and review junction modelling, forecasting, and technical assessments.
• Prepare and review highway design inputs to Transport Assessments and technical reports.
• Lead highway design discussions with clients, highway authorities, architects, planners, and other project stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong client and stakeholder relationships to support project delivery and repeat business opportunities.
• Manage project resources, utilisation, and delivery performance to achieve successful project outcomes.
• Support project management activities including resource planning, budgeting, invoicing, and financial management.

Skills

Highway design

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

AutoCAD

Civil 3D

GIS

SPONS

Mentoring

Business development

Client relationships

Tools

AutoCAD

Civil 3D

GIS

SPONS

Job description

Carrington West is seeking an Associate Highway Designer to lead highway design projects and provide technical leadership across teams. The role emphasizes delivering design outputs within programme, budget, and quality constraints, while guiding junior members and maintaining client relationships.

You will review design solutions against national standards (MfS, DMRB, LTN 1/20, TSRGD) and support business development through work-winning activities.