Lead Highways Design Engineer – Hybrid

slihrms; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Employee rewards

Training & development

Hybrid work culture

Flexible holidays

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Principal Highways Engineer to lead technical design across major highways and active travel projects in the UK. You will mentor staff, develop staff capabilities and oversee cost estimates, ensuring quality across time and budget constraints.

Based in Glasgow or Edinburgh with a flexible, hybrid working culture, you will engage with clients and senior stakeholders to shape solutions, manage tender processes and expand the firm’s influence on critical infrastructure

Qualifications

• BEng or MEng in Civil Engineering or Professionally Qualified, or near qualified at Chartered or Incorporated Engineer Level.
• Experience/knowledge of the design and design process involved in highways and active travel schemes.
• Proven ability to advise clients on technical matters.
• Proven ability to coach and develop team members.
• Willingness to work flexibly to deliver projects to time and budget.
• Project Management and/or Highways Discipline Management experience.
• Experience of pricing and bidding on tender opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical guidance on highways and/or active travel engineering projects.
• Mentoring and coaching team members and taking responsibility for the technical development of staff.
• Solving engineering problems.
• Developing works cost estimates.
• Checking, reviewing and overseeing the work of others.
• Liaise with key clients and be capable of discussing design / technical solutions to stakeholders including technical and non-technical Clients.
• Liaising with Practice Managers, ensuring that projects are sufficiently resourced.
• Delegating work to team members, programming deliverables and monitoring progress.
• Identify and responding to project commercial risks and opportunities.
• Support the business in winning work including representing the business at networking events, preparing bids and tenders and establish, maintain and develop relationships with existing and prospective internal and external clients.

Skills

Highways design

Mentoring

Client liaison

Project leadership

Education

BEng or MEng Civil Engineering

Chartered/ Incorporated Engineer

Job description

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Principal Highways Engineer to lead technical design across major highways and active travel projects in the UK. You will mentor staff, develop staff capabilities and oversee cost estimates, ensuring quality across time and budget constraints.

Based in Glasgow or Edinburgh with a flexible, hybrid working culture, you will engage with clients and senior stakeholders to shape solutions, manage tender processes and expand the firm’s influence on critical infrastructure