Highways & Traffic Engineer

AECOM; Stockland Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Professional development

AECOM University

Benefits package

Volunteering days

Wellbeing events

Sports & Social Club

Annual celebrations

Job summary

AECOM Bristol Streets team is seeking an enthusiastic Engineer to help design and deliver traffic engineering and urban realm projects from feasibility through to construction. You’ll contribute to safer, greener streets and more livable towns as part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team.

You will develop your technical expertise, work with clients such as WECA PSF2 and local authorities, and build a rewarding career in transport infrastructure within a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing feasibility, preliminary, and detailed designs for local roads and traffic schemes.
• Familiarity with alignment, drainage, pavements, road restraint systems, signage, and markings.
• Knowledge of cycling infrastructure, traffic calming, junction design, and footway improvements.
• Understanding of TSRGD, Manual for Streets, DMRB, and the Traffic Signs Manual.
• Awareness of Health & Safety and CDM regulations.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Develop feasibility, preliminary and detailed designs for traffic engineering and streetscape schemes.
• Prepare high-quality technical outputs including drawings, reports and specifications.
• Ensure designs comply with relevant standards, regulations and client requirements.
• Collaborate with engineers, planners and technicians across AECOM.
• Deliver assigned tasks to agreed timescales, budgets and quality standards.
• Promote and apply Health & Safety best practice, including CDM principles.
• Support site visits, surveys and project meetings where required.
• Provide regular updates to the Senior Engineer or Project Manager on project progress.
• Assist in the preparation of technical documentation and project deliverables.
• Participate in training and development activities to build technical and professional knowledge.

Skills

AutoCAD

MS Office

Traffic engineering

Road design

Urban streets

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here

Shape the Future of Transport in the Southwest – Join AECOM as a Highways & Traffic Engineer in Bristol

Are you ready to make a tangible impact on the streets and communities of the Southwest? AECOM's Bristol-based Streets team is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Engineer to help design and deliver innovative traffic engineering and urban realm projects. From concept development through to construction, you'll contribute to schemes that create safer, more sustainable, and people-friendly transport networks.

As part of a collaborative and multidisciplinary team, you'll support the delivery of projects for clients such as the West of England Combined Authority, Bath & North East Somerset Council, Cardiff Council and Wessex Water, while contributing to major frameworks including WECA PSF2 and SEWTAPS. Whether it's delivering active travel schemes, improving cycling infrastructure, calming traffic in busy neighbourhoods, or enhancing public spaces, your work will directly improve how people move and live.

Working alongside experienced Senior Engineers and Project Managers, you'll develop your technical skills, gain valuable project experience, and build the foundations of a rewarding career in transport infrastructure and street design.

Here’s what you’ll do:

As an Engineer in our Bristol Streets team, you’ll be involved in the full project lifecycle—from feasibility through to detailed design and delivery. You'll work on a diverse portfolio of traffic engineering, local transport and urban realm schemes while developing your technical expertise within a supportive team environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with the development of feasibility, preliminary and detailed designs for traffic engineering, streetscape and local highway schemes.
• Prepare high-quality technical outputs including drawings, reports and specifications.
• Ensure designs comply with relevant standards, regulations and client requirements.
• Collaborate with engineers, planners and technicians across AECOM's business lines.
• Deliver assigned tasks to agreed timescales, budgets and quality standards.
• Promote and apply Health & Safety best practice, including CDM principles.
• Support site visits, surveys and project meetings where required.
• Provide regular updates to the Senior Engineer or Project Manager on project progress.
• Assist in the preparation of technical documentation and project deliverables.
• Participate in training and development activities to build technical and professional knowledge.

What We’re Looking For:

We're seeking an enthusiastic and proactive engineer with a passion for creating safer, more sustainable streets and public spaces. Whether you're joining us straight from university or bringing some early-career experience, you'll be eager to learn, develop your technical skills and grow your career within a supportive and collaborative team.

What we offer:

• Flexible hybridworkingto ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle.
• Professional development supportandmentorship schemes.
• Career development opportunities via AECOM Universityandtechnical practice networks.
• A range of core and personalised benefits tailored to your lifestyle and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle.
• Volunteering days – 2 days per year to volunteer in STEM or charitable initiatives.
• Wellbeing Events– yoga sessions, wellness weeks, lunchtimewalksand mental health awareness activities.
• Sports &SocialClub– monthly office-wide social activities plus Streets team events
• Annual Celebrations– summer events, holiday celebrations, and recognition awards.

If you’re looking for a place where your ambition meets endless possibility,AECOM is where your next big leap begins.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits ofwhat’spossible?

Here’swhatwe’relooking for:

• Experience in developing feasibility, preliminary, and detailed designs for local roads and traffic schemes.
• Familiarity with design elements such as alignment, drainage, pavements, road restraint systems, signage, and markings.
• Knowledge of cycling infrastructure, traffic calming, junction design, and footway/carriageway improvements.
• Understanding of relevant design standards including TSRGD, Manual for Streets, DMRB, and the Traffic Signs Manual.
• Awareness of Health & Safety and CDM regulations.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and Microsoft Office.

Additional Information

To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.