Highways & Traffic Engineer

AECOM; Stockland Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Professional development support

Mentorship schemes

Career development via AECOM U

Volunteering in STEM

Wellbeing events

Office social activities

Annual celebrations

Job summary

AECOM in Bristol is seeking a Highway & Traffic Engineer to shape transport projects in the Southwest. You will participate in feasibility, preliminary and detailed design, contributing to safe, sustainable streets and vibrant public spaces.

Join a multidisciplinary Streets team, develop technical skills, and deliver schemes for clients like WECA and local authorities. Hybrid working and professional development are offered to grow your career in transport infrastructure.

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/carriageway improvements.
• Understanding of TSRGD, Manual for Streets, DMRB and Traffic Signs Manual.
• Awareness of Health & Safety and CDM regulations.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and Microsoft Office.

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 progress.

Skills

Feasibility design

Preliminary design

Detailed design

Cycling infrastructure

Traffic calming

Junction design

Health & Safety

CDM regulations

AutoCAD

Microsoft Office

Education

Civil Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

AutoCAD

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.

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.

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

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. 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.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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