Consultant or Senior Consultant Highway Engineer

Steer; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Steer is seeking an experienced highway design specialist to join our UK team, based in London or Leeds. You will contribute to major development schemes, urban streets and public spaces, collaborating with a range of multidisciplinary teams to deliver design solutions and ensure high-quality project outcomes.

You will apply your highway design expertise, use AutoCAD and Civils 3D, and manage projects with increasing complexity, while developing strong client relationships and communicating

Qualifications

• Experience in highway and public space design.
• Proficient with AutoCAD and Civils 3D.
• Strong project management and client liaison.
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Willingness to work across UK offices (London or Leeds).

Responsibilities

• Undertake highway and public space design, using your technical skills.
• Use AutoCAD and Civils 3D to prepare drawings, reports and documents.
• Develop project management skills as you progress.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external subconsultants.
• Liaise with clients and stakeholders to deliver quality outcomes.
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines.

Skills

Highway design

AutoCAD

Civils 3D

Project management

Communication

Microsoft Office

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Professional engineering qualification

Tools

AutoCAD

Civils 3D

Job description

Steer is a global consultancy specialising in the critical services and infrastructure that make our world work. We employee over 500 people throughout, North America, LATAM, UK / Europe and India. From transport to energy and technology to education, we're trusted to deliver powerful solutions that make a measurable difference - to our clients, the communities we work in and the world we share. We work for Government departments, local and city authorities, developers, and private sector operators and investors. We develop strategies, policies, and masterplans; design and make the case for new transport infrastructure and services; and provide financial and advisory services. For further information, and examples of our recent projects, please visit https://steergroup.com/ .

We are seeking an experienced individual with a highway design background for our UK-based team (London or Leeds). This opportunity offers the right candidate the opportunity to grow their career and to have a positive impact on the development and delivery of major development sites, urban streets and public spaces. The team undertakes a portfolio of high-profile schemes that are focused on urban streets within a particular area or corridor. You will work closely with other teams and will develop and deliver solutions that enable healthier and more efficient movement whilst also recognising the role of streets as places. This work is typically undertaken for public and private sector clients such as Local and Regional authorities, as well as for high profile.

Recent projects include:

• Delivery of numerous schemes for Brent Council including projects in Wembley, Northwick Park, and ongoing development of a major scheme in Neasden
• Highway infrastructure design for new developments such as Brent Cross Town, Canary Wharf and Crown Estate
• Design support for major developments in West Sussex, Oxfordshire, Nottingham
• We also provide support to our Sports and Major Development team for clients such as The Open, The FA, Nottingham Forest and major tournaments

These projects require an appreciation of highways and traffic engineering, including alignment design, sustainable drainage, pavement design, utility issues and road safety, as well as an appreciation of the design and construction of public spaces, appropriate to the level of the post you are applying for. We would not be expecting any candidate to have detailed experience in all these fields, but you will have sufficient understanding to be able to collaborate with others in the team to reach successful project outcomes. As such, it is likely that your background includes a balance of technical experience and a strong grasp of the societal, economic and political contexts that transport exists in, together with a successful track record of managing tasks or projects. We will help you develop your project management skills. You will work closely with our market-leading Associates and Directors across our offices, who will actively support you in project delivery and in your wider career development.

In this role you will:

• Undertake highway and public space design, drawing on your technical skills and understanding of highways and traffic engineering.
• Use software packages such as AutoCAD and Civils 3D as well as standard office software to prepare and deliver drawings, documents and reports that are appropriately tailored to varying audiences.
• Develop your project management skills of increasing scale and complexity as you move through your career.
• Work within multi-disciplinary teams that comprise both internal colleagues and external subconsultants.
• Provide clients with the best advice by integrating work developed by team members (including technical inputs such as traffic modelling outputs or design drawings) into high-quality project deliverables that contribute to the company's reputation for delivering excellence.
• Effectively liaise with clients and other external stakeholders.
• Take responsibility for multiple projects simultaneously, successfully managing competing deadlines.
• Hold or working towards professional and academic qualifications in engineering or an aligned field.
• Effectively deploy an appropriate mix of analytical tools and techniques for each project, drawing on your understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, and available transport data sources.
• Apply your excellent written and verbal communication skills, including your ability to appropriately tailor a message to non-technical audiences (such as the public and politicians).
• Have a solid ability to use Microsoft Office (in particular Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

For the more senior post you will also:

• Manage project budgets, exercising effective financial and budgetary control
• Manage the preparation of competitive proposals for transport planning studies

We encourage and support our staff to achieve professional qualifications through appropriate Professional Institutions such as the Institution of Civil Engin