Routeways Senior Engineer

STRABAG SE; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A major construction company in the UK seeks a Senior Engineer to oversee extensive Routeways enabling works for a clean-water infrastructure scheme. Responsibilities include managing traffic, coordinating surveys, and interfacing with utilities. Candidates should have experience in civil infrastructure, knowledge of safe excavation principles, and hold relevant certifications including CSCS. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to significant projects and ensures compliance with safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Section/Site Engineer delivering civil infrastructure schemes.
• Strong understanding of safe excavation principles and highway management.
• Working towards professional accreditation is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage survey control and assure setting-out accuracy.
• Coordinate traffic management design and road space bookings.
• Ensure asset owner requirements and safety measures are met.
• Drive programme certainty through detailed planning and coordination.
• Support the management of subcontractors and stakeholder interactions.

Skills

Civil infrastructure experience

Management of multiple work fronts

Safe excavation practices

Utility interfaces knowledge

Traffic management understanding

Temporary works supervision

First Aid at Work certification

CSCS certification

Education

Professional accreditation (e.g., IEng or CEng)

Job description

If you are an experienced Highways professional looking for a new challenge in tunnelling construction and would like to help shape future of STRABAG, then please read the below job description.

• Experience as a Section/Site Engineer delivering civil infrastructure schemes.
• Experience working on highways, access, ground investigation, utilities interfaces or general enabling works for infrastructure projects.
• Confident managing multiple work fronts with varied constraints.
• Working towards professional accreditation (e.g., IEng or CEng with ICE) is desirable.
• CSCS.
• Strong understanding of safe excavation, HSG47 principles, and highway/traffic management interfaces.
• Temporary Works Supervisor.
• SSSTS.
• First Aid at Work.
• EUSR (for utility interfaces).

STRABAG - More than just a construction company

This is a great opportunity to join a landmark clean-water infrastructure scheme that involves delivering extensive Routeways enabling works to bring a major construction programme to site. This includes permanent and temporary highway works, access routes, construction logistics corridors, surveys, ground investigations, haul roads, and coordination of utilities interfaces. As Routeways Senior Engineer, you’ll manage defined elements of the Routeways work packages, including highway modifications, traffic management, temporary/permanent access routes, construction haul roads, survey works, ground investigations, utilities interfaces, and enabling works. You’ll provide technical assurance, manage surveys and permits, coordinate subcontractors, and help drive programme certainty.

Key Responsibilities

• Embed topographical, PAS128, GI and ecological survey information and ensure site teams build to the latest data.
• Coordinate and support all ground investigation works, ensuring safe systems, permits, logging accuracy and record management.
• Manage survey control, setting‑out assurance, and subcontractor survey oversight; maintain red‑lines, as‑built and QA records.
• Support with the delivery of temporary and permanent highway works, lay‑bys, haul routes and construction access roads.
• Coordinate traffic management design, road space bookings, TTROs, permits and stakeholder approvals.
• Manage temporary works requirements for roadways, crossings, retaining structures, excavations.
• Interface with utilities teams where Routeways works cross or require diversion/protection of services.
• Apply HSG47 controls for service identification, safe excavation and permit‑to‑dig; coordinate trial holes and verification.
• Ensure asset owner requirements are understood and that all approvals, inspections and protection measures are delivered.
• Support with the management and structuring of all utilities data collected, in line with PAS128 requirements.
• Prepare method statements, RAMS, permits and ITPs for Routeways activities.
• Drive programme certainty through detailed planning, daily coordination and 4‑week lookahead development.
• Maintain daily records, progress data, quality documentation and support the commercial team with evidence for change.
• Ensure subcontractor safe systems of work are implemented to Tier 1 standards and statutory obligations.
• Manage quality documentation, inspection/testing records and handover certification for highways, GI, survey and access works.
• Maintain public protection and safe operation of live highways and construction routes.
• Support daily management of subcontractors.
• Liaise with designers, temporary works engineers, highway authorities, utilities owners, ecologists, and local stakeholders.
• Raise RFIs, NCRs and change requests as required.

Kontakt

3rd Floor, The Tower, 65 Buckingham Gate, London