Associate Highways Engineer

Strata Construction Consulting; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A top design consultancy in Exeter is looking for an Associate Highways Engineer. This role involves leading transport infrastructure projects and mentoring junior team members, with a focus on client relationship management and project delivery. Ideal candidates will be degree qualified and ideally Chartered Engineers with strong highways design knowledge.

Benefits

Hybrid / Flexible working

In-house training & further career development

Salary sacrifice schemes

Bonus scheme

Regular performance reviews / Annual appraisals

Qualifications

• Degree qualified and ideally Chartered Engineer status.
• Broad range of project experience in civil engineering and multi-disciplinary projects.
• Experience in client-facing roles and maintaining client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage transport infrastructure projects for local highway authorities.
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary inputs including budgeting and programming.
• Mentor and support junior team members.

Skills

Project management

Client relationship management

Highways design knowledge

Technical leadership

Education

Degree in relevant engineering discipline

Chartered Engineer status

Tools

NEC4 Contracts

Job description

We have an opening for an Associate Highways Engineer to join a global and leading multidiscipline design consultancy within their Exeter office. This is an exciting opportunity to join a client who are professionals in highways design and consultancy services for local authority clients within the Southwest. You’ll be supporting the Local Authority clients to deliver improvements for local communities, prioritising Active and Healthy Travel modes and caring about the provision of mobility across the transport network.

As an Associate you will provide technical leadership to our design and contract supervision teams and will use your knowledge and skills to deliver the right quality to time and budget. You will use those attributes to lead design teams and to mentor and support junior team members.

What’s on offer

• Hybrid / Flexible working
• Inhouse training & further career development
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Bonus scheme
• Regular reviews for performance / Annual appraisals

The role

• Leading and/or managing a variety of transport infrastructure projects for local highway authority clients primarily in the Southwest of England.
• Responsibility for project team management and co-ordinating multi-disciplinary inputs, budgeting, programming and technical excellence.
• Managing resources and developing relationships with other teams.
• Agreeing fees and managing the commercial position on projects.
• Developing client relationships and leading tenders/ bids.
• Supervision and mentoring of junior members of the team.

What you need to succeed

• Ideally, we are looking for a Chartered Engineer & you must be degree qualified.
• You should have a broad range of project experience, both within civil engineering discipline and multi-disciplinary projects ideally focused on highway, traffic and civil engineering projects.
• Project management expertise, including reviewing client briefs and tenders, developing fee proposals, and leading project delivery through workload supervision, task delegation, junior staff mentoring and managing client expectations.
• A proven ability to act in client facing roles and maintain good client relationships.
• Proven working knowledge of key UK highways design guidance such as the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, Manual for Streets, Traffic Signs Manuals and Local Transport Notes.
• Experience in preparing and managing engineering and construction contracts using NEC4.