Engineer (Highways)

Sweco; Ledston; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Hybrid policy

Pension

Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

Bonus scheme

Professional subscriptions

25 days holiday

Cycle2Work

Wellbeing support

Employee discounts

EV salary sacrifice

Tree planting

Job summary

Sweco in Leeds is seeking an Engineer to join our Highways team. You will work on landmark highway projects across public and private sectors, balancing design excellence with safety and sustainability.

This role offers flexible working with a minimum of three days in the office, mentorship, and opportunities to progress professionally while delivering high quality solutions for clients.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant field and working toward professional qualification.
• Experience delivering highway projects or work packages within multi-disciplinary schemes.
• Experience in highway geometry design per DMRB; preferable with Manual for Streets; using Bentley/OpenRoads or Civils 3D.
• Experience in highway ancillary works design and MCHW specs preferred.
• Strong AutoCAD experience and BIM integration.
• Ability to present design solutions to clients and stakeholders.
• Keen to learn, progress and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Undertaking design elements from road geometry, drainage, and pavement to restraints, signs and markings with senior support.
• Producing design outputs: drawings, specs, schedules, reports and calculations.
• Collaborating with team and other design disciplines; understanding their role.
• Ensuring deliverables meet timescales and budgets.
• Ensuring solutions meet client needs and expectations.
• Complying with IMS and current H&S legislation.

Skills

Highways design

AutoCAD

Project coordination

Stakeholder communication

Learning mindset

Education

Relevant degree

Professional qualification progress

Tools

Bentley OpenRoads

Civil 3D

AutoCAD

BIM integration

Job description

Job Description

Let’s transform society together…

We’re Sweco.

We’re future planners, city shapers, urban innovators, digital transformers, net zero chasers, community connectors, social enterprisers and lifestyle improvers.

We’re difference makers.

We’re Europe’s leading design, engineering, environment and regulatory consultancy and we’re now recruiting for an Engineer to join our Highways team in Leeds.

These roles can be worked flexibly, with a minimum of 3 days in the office and the option of adjusted start and finish times.

Our highway and transportation engineering teams are recognised industry leaders and operate across several markets including strategic roads, urban city/town centre interventions and private developments. We have a strong portfolio of local and national clients, some of our recent projects across the North West and West Yorkshire include Northern Gateway Western Access, A62 Oldham Road, A662 Ashton New Road, Picadilly Bus Interchange, York Central, Bradford City Centre, Bradford Kings Road and Wakefield Road corridors, A641 in Brighouse and Connecting North East Calderdale.

We use the latest design software and techniques to produce innovative and efficient design solutions for our clients with safety and sustainability at the forefront of our minds.

What does the role involve?

Working with Sweco will give you the opportunity to work on landmark projects and schemes of all shapes and sizes. You will also learn from people who share a passion for working together with our customers to deliver technical excellence.

Working as an Engineer in the Highways teams we'll offer you exposure to varied project work working within all projects stages from inception through to construction and handover, both operating client side and in a design and build environment working on publicly funded and private developer projects.

You will undertake engineering design and development through the application of proven techniques and procedures to develop appropriate solutions to client problems including:

• Undertaking elements of design from road geometry, drainage, and pavement to road restraint systems and traffic signs and road markings with support from senior members of the project team.
• Producing design outputs such as drawings, specifications, schedules, reports and calculations etc, to achieve the optimum solution for the project.
• Working in close collaboration with your team and other design disciplines and have an appreciation of their role.
• Ensuring deliverables are carried out within agreed timescales and budgets.
• Ensuring that solutions meet client needs and expectations are met/exceeded.
• Ensuring that all work is carried out to the Company’s IMS, and current H&S legislation requirements.

You will take ownership and responsibility for the quality of work you produce and be fully committed to your professional development through a mix of our in‑house training opportunities and engaging with professional institution activities.

To be successful in this role you’ll possess:

• A relevant degree and be working towards achieving a relevant professional qualification.
• Experience of the planning and delivery of elements of highway projects or work packages on larger multi-disciplinary projects.
• Experience of undertaking highway geometry design in accordance with the DMRB, and desirably Manual for Streets, using Bentley OpenRoads or Civils 3D software or similar software packages.
• Experience of highway ancillary works design and MCHW specification production would be an advantage but not essential.
• Strong experience of AutoCAD and a sound understanding of its integration with the BIM environment.
• The confidence to present design solutions and progress both internally and externally to clients and stakeholders.
• A desire to learn, progress and challenge yourself.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

What’s in it for you?

This is an exciting time to join Sweco and if you want to be part of a company who is small in all the best ways but large enough to provide a diverse and exciting workload, this job is for you

From the moment you join us, you will receive the training you need. You will be assigned a mentor, who will support you on your journey to gaining professional recognition with your chosen institution.

You will continue to learn from experienced people who share a passion for working together with our clients to deliver technical excellence and as you develop be given opportunity to work more independently.

If you believe you have the skill set required, are keen to join a business with genuine opportunities for career progression, then we’d love to hear from you.

Let’s work together to transform society at Sweco!

Employee Benefits

• Flexible and hybrid working (Flexworks Policy)
• Competitive pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme
• Payment of two relevant professional subscriptions
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days per year)
• Cycle2Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (wellbeing, mental health, financial and work advice)
• Employee discounts via Sweco Benefit Select (Faircare)
• Salary Sacrifice Electric Vehicle Scheme
• We plant a tree for all new starters!