Lead Highways Engineer

Strata Construction Consulting; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction consulting firm seeks a Contract Lead Engineer to manage highway infrastructure projects. This role involves overseeing maintenance, project management for various transport schemes, and ensuring collaborative progress. With competitive salary and flexible working options, it offers excellent career growth in a supportive environment.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Paid overtime

Flexible working hours

Varied and interesting work

Excellent career progression prospects

Organised social events

Friendly and supportive office environment

Qualifications

• Experience in managing design consultants and contractors for civil works.
• Strong project management skills to ensure documentation is maintained.
• Knowledge of highways legal matters relating to projects.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing reactive maintenance to highway infrastructure.
• Acting as project manager on various improvement schemes.
• Developing and monitoring budgets for highway projects.

Skills

Project Management

Collaborative Program Development

Cost Estimation

Traffic Engineering

Highways Legal Matters

Job description

Our client is on the lookout for a Contract Lead Engineer who will be responsible for managing and organising reactive maintenance to highway infrastructure, ensuring the successful delivery of highway improvement schemes, as well as acting as the project manager on various projects such as junction capacity projects, sustainable travel projects and safety projects. This opportunity is outside IR35

What’s on offer:

• Competitive salary.
• 25 days holiday.
• Paid overtime.
• Flexible working hours.
• Hybrid working.
• Varied and interesting work.
• Excellent career progression prospects.
• Organised social events.
• Financially secure family run business.
• Friendly and supportive office environment.

What you need to succeed:

• Experience of managing and liaising with the design consultant and the contractor for civils works, street lighting and traffic signals
• Experience of developing a collaborative programme to ensure that all parties achieve the deadlines that are set, along with producing reports and monitoring budgets.
• Providing cost estimates, monitoring budgets and producing spend profiles
• Experience in planning, designing, evaluating, project managing major traffic engineering schemes and measures to improve traffic flow and junction capacity
• Strong project management skills with the ability to ensure good housekeeping in relation to project documentation
• Knowledge of Highways legal matters relating to delivery of highways projects by 3rd parties, particularly those relating to S278 and S38 and S106 agreements
• Knowledge of development control policies, standards and procedures and legal agreements, and experience of development management matters relating to highways, traffic, and drainage issues for major schemes.